Senior Construction Project Manager - Higher Education

Turner & Townsend•Chicago, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager to join our team. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale education construction projects. This role involves managing stakeholders, analyzing project milestones, ensuring best practices, producing reports, monitoring progress, managing supplier interfaces, facilitating project information flow, forecasting milestones, managing local design teams, providing technical support, responding to RFIs, offering expertise in cost control and value engineering, conducting independent reviews, client management, strategic thinking, and knowledge management.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
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 submittmits, 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.