Senior Project Manager - Retail Construction

Turner & Townsend; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in support of the retail sector. The ideal candidate will have owner’s representative experience on large‑scale commercial construction, coordinating with clients, designers, and contractors.

The role requires building schedules, managing budgets, and ensuring governance and best practices across multiple projects. On-site presence may be required; base salary ranges from $150,000 to $180,000 with potential

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, architecture or other applicable degree (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 6 years of project management experience.
• Retail construction PM experience preferred.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and construction PM tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Korean language proficiency and/or experience with Korean clients is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage all project stakeholders including client internal teams, architects, engineers and General Contractors.
• Oversee design and General Contractor procurement processes and bid activities.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules with critical path focus.
• Ensure governance, processes and TT best practices are applied across projects.
• Prepare monthly status reports and other project trackers (permits, inspections).
• Oversee multiple projects, managing time, cost and quality.
• Monitor budgets and validate client-provided budgets.
• Review designs for constructibility and compliance with client standards.
• Communicate project information across all team members and document actions.
• Identify and resolve issues in both design and construction phases.

Skills

Project management

Retail construction

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Procore

Outlook

Korean language

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Procore

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 inpartnershipmakes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects andprogrammesas we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

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

We aremajority-ownedby 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 premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in support of the retail sector. The ideal individual will have prior owner’s representative experience supporting large-scale commercial construction projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage all project stakeholders including the client’s internal stakeholder groups, architects, engineers, and General Contractors.
• Manage both the design team and general contractor procurement processes, including preparation of bid documents, addressing pre-bid RFIs and bid leveling.
• Produce a detailed project schedule, including identification of critical path activities. Throughout the project, effective analyze, track and manage schedule activities to avoid schedule slip.
• Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized, while ensuring application of T&T best practices on all projects.
• Production of formal project status reports including monthly reports and others as required by the project. Maintain additional trackers as necessary (permit status, inspection status etc).
• Ability to oversee multiple construction projects simultaneously including all aspects of time, cost and quality.
• Ability to generate a high level project budget and/or validate a budget produced by others. Monitor and track budget throughout the project.
• Oversee the design process ensuring the client’s design standards are incorporated. In addition, conduct drawing reviews checking for completeness and constructibility.
• Manage the flow of project information across all project team team members ensuring communication is maintained proactively and documented accordingly.
• Play an active role in issue identification and resolution in both the design and construction process.
• During construction maintain oversight of the General Contractor including regular site visits, change order reviews, provide an independent review of schedule updates and manage the RFI/submittal process.
• Identify and manage project risks, dependencies and commercial issues, implementing risk mitigation as appropriate.
• Client management – maintain a strong working relationship with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic thinking - provide advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve client objectives and improve T&T processes and best practices.
• Lessons learned – capture key lessons learned and apply to future projects.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, architecture or other applicable degree and or equivalent experience.
• Prior project management experience in retail construction strongly preferred.
• Minimum 6 years relevant project management experience.
• Strong organizational and management skills – 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.
• Korean language proficiency and/or experience working with Korean clients is a plus.

The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

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

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.