Senior Construction Project Manager - Pharma / Biotech

Turner & Townsend•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join their team. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects. This role involves managing stakeholders, analyzing and tracking critical milestone activities, ensuring effective project governance, and applying best practices. The position requires the production of formal project status reports, monitoring construction progress, managing supplier interfaces, and facilitating project information flow. Key responsibilities include forecasting milestones, managing local design teams, providing technical support, responding to RFIs, offering expertise in cost control and value engineering, and conducting independent reviews of project documentation. Client management and strategic thinking are crucial, as is knowledge management to capture project learnings. Process improvement and adherence to SOX control responsibilities may also be part of this role.

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry preferred.

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 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.