Senior Project Manager - Life Sciences

Turner & Townsend; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend, a global professional services firm, seeks a Senior Project Manager to support its Life Science sector in Huntsville. The role focuses on leading large-scale construction projects, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring governance and best practices across programs.

The ideal candidate brings extensive PM experience, excellent organizational skills, and proficiency with Procore and MS Office tools, to deliver compliant, on-time project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or applicable bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8–12 years of relevant project management experience.
• Strong organizational and management skills – ability to work effectively with the broader team.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management 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.
• 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.

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 programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, 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 programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsendare seeking an experiencedSenior Project Managertojoin our team in support of our Life Science Sector. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supplychainsto deliver compliant projects.
• Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid scheduleslips.
• 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 asrequired.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards areappliedcorrectly.
• 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 andmonitorlocal design teamsin accordance withcommission criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, generalcontractorsand regional stakeholders.
• Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
• Provideexpertisefor cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance whererequired.
• Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals,timelinesand costs from architects,contractorsand suppliers.
• Client management –assistin developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking -providesadvice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’objectivesand businessobjectives.
• Knowledge management – ensure that key information and learnings generated from each projectiscaptured.
• Process improvement – Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or applicable bachelor’s degree and or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8-12years of relevantproject managementexperience.
• Strong organizational and management skills –the abilityto work effectively and collaboratively withthebroader team.
• Proficiencyin Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*

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