Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in support of the Corporate Occupier sector. The ideal individual will have prior owner’s representative experience supporting large-scale commercial construction projects.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the project management lead and occupier representative for corporate real estate projects, from initial feasibility and site selection, through lease negotiations, design, construction and handover.
- Partner closely with commercial real estate brokers on site feasibility, lease negotiations, test fits and transaction strategy.
- Ability to drive projects forward, set expectations with clients and brokers.
- Support site selection and due diligence, including review of test fits, building conditions, landlord work letters, construction requirements and project feasibility.
- 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 constructability.
- Manage the flow of project information across all project 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.