Senior Project Manager - K-12 Construction Projects

Turner & Townsend; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Construction Project Manager with K-12 construction experience to join our team in Chicago. The ideal candidate will support large-scale education construction projects, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring governance and cost control best practices.

Responsibilities include managing schedules, reporting, and interface with designers, engineers, suppliers, and owners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, civil engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5–7 years of relevant project management experience.
• Must have public sector Owner’s Rep/Advisor experience, preferably some education projects.
• Strong organizational and management skills with the broader team.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction PM tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
• Analyze, track, and manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.
• Ensure governance, processes and systems are properly applied on projects.
• Produce formal project status reports and other required documents.
• Monitor multiple construction projects to ensure design standards are applied correctly.
• Coordinate interface between all suppliers via monthly trackers and weekly reviews.
• Facilitate regular meetings and written communications for project information flow.
• Forecast and update key project milestones; manage local design teams per criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Respond rapidly to RFIs from the field; advise on cost control and value engineering.

Skills

Public sector experience

Communication

Organizational skills

Presentation skills

Collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management or civil engineering

Tools

Procore

MS Office

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend HEERY is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager with K-12 construction experience to join our team. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale K-12 education construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
• Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.
• Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized
• Ensure application of best practice on all projects.
• Production of formal project status reports and other reports as required.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards are applied correctly.
• Manage the interface between all suppliers through monthly trackers and weekly reviews.
• Manage the flow of project information between the project team through regular meetings and written communications.
• Forecast and update key project milestones.
• Manage and monitor local design teams in accordance with commission criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
• Provide expertise for cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance where required.
• Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals, timelines and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.
• Client management – assist in developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking - provides advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’ objectives and business objectives.
• Knowledge management – ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project are captured.
• Process improvement – Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or applicable bachelor’s degree and or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant project management experience.
• Must have public sector Owner’s Rep/Advisor experience, preferably some education projects
• Strong organizational and management skills – the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with the broader team.
• Effective presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.
• Excellent communication skills.

Additional Information

*On site requirements might change based on client needs*

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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