Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in support of Federal Projects. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale 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 is captured.
- 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.
Project/Program specifications
- Project/Program specific responsibilities:
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally, and in writing. Experience in preparing written reports, correspondence, and in briefing clients and management personnel.
- Successfully understand the fundamentals of current construction contract law and possess the ability to interpret construction contract drawings and Specifications and FAR/GSAR clauses.
- Understanding construction management procedures, including the ability to understand different project scheduling software (e.g., Prolog Manager, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project).
- Successfully authoring and creating written reports and other documentation.
- The Project Manager should have in depth working knowledge of construction project CPM schedules, and the related details of their use in managing and monitoring large building construction projects.
- Experience in conducting inspections to resolve problems on construction projects and briefing Government personnel.
- Knowledge of construction practices and techniques, including experience in proper installation methods of construction materials.
- Ability and experience in the actual inspection of construction materials, workmanship, and installation of systems.
- The knowledge of construction scheduling, budgeting, materials and methods, and industry design standards.
- In-depth knowledge of LEED and/or SITES standards preferred but not required.
- The Project Manager should be responsive to all communication from the Owner project team.
- Market sector experience: minimum 10 years’ similar experience, experience on at least two (2) similar projects in the past ten (10) years with total cost exceeding $30M each
- Similar examples include, but are not limited to:
- Detention / Law Enforcement Facilities – minimum/medium security
- Governmental, Institutional or Commercial Office Buildings with site improvements (i.e. pavements, utilities, etc.)
- Project/program size in dollar value: $400+ Million Dollars
- Software specific requirements: Prolog Manager, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project
- Certification requirements: Certified Construction Manager (CCM) preferred
Similar Project Experience defined as: A project consisting of major modernization or new construction of campus or facility area, including but not limited to canopies, administration buildings, holding areas, administration offices, visitor and employee parking areas, major utility relocations, and road and paving site work. Project must be greater than $30 million. Residential housing and warehouse projects are not considered similar regardless of size.