Senior Project Manager - Retail Construction

Turner & Townsend•Los Angeles, CA

5d•$150,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

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

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

Korean language proficiency and/or experience working with Korean clients is a plus.

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 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.