Construction Project Lead

**Company Description**
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.

Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Our staff work on project sites, in client offices and in our own facilities as project and commission needs are catered to.
- **This role requires on site presence.**

**Responsibilities**:

- Takes the lead in all facets of project management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk, stakeholders and information) for individual projects including initiation, planning, design, construction, handover and closeout.
- Agreements/contracts
- Project design standards and client briefs
- Programming requirements and work breakdown schedules
- Design and construction contract documents
- Design development information including surveys and drawings
- Control elements such as schedules and cost estimates, developed to budgets and then commercial reporting
- Public procurement requirements - prequalification and tender processes
- Interfaces directly with clients to assist in defining and documenting project requirements.
- Takes lead role in planning and programming of projects - preparing and motivating with the team - scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimates and budgets, work plan schedule and milestones, quality control, and risk identification.
- Identifies project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists.
- Prepares client-based request for proposals and completes through to.
- Bid analyses for clients, recommending teams and resources for the project to stakeholders
- Represents Turner & Townsend on the project delivery resources/team to achieve project goals.
- Implements communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources informed. Leads and drives project meetings when appropriate.
- Implements project documentation governance aligned with company and client requirements.
- Ensures project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
- Creates action plans to meet objectives, budget and schedule. Tracks progress of each project against goals, objectives, approved budgets, approved timelines, reports status and variances.
- Takes lead in change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure Client approvals, and issue change orders. Assess instances for impact to scope, budget, schedule, quality and risk
- Implements standard risk management routines with management support, to identify project risks, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks.
- Other duties typical of construction project management may be assigned.

**Qualifications** Education / Experience**:

- Engineering, Architectural, Construction Management or a suitably related degree is a requirement
- ** Fluency in English** **and Spanish** at a working level to lead meetings, prepare reports and written communication, with confidence to conduct presentations, interact with client stakeholders as well as consultants, contractors and suppliers.
- Demonstrated experience working in Project Management within the construction industry on commercial ground up real estate projects.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to be highly effective in a client facing role. Able to clearly convey information orally and in writing. In addition to talking with owners and clients, managers must give clear orders and explain complex information to construction teams and be able to discuss technical details with engineers, inspectors and other specialists.
- ** Analytical skills**: must be able to plan strategies, investigate project cost variances, and solve problems over the course of a project - making judgement calls and decisions that align with project targets.
- ** Business skills**: need to prepare and follow project budgets, hire and manage staff, and coordinate with other workers and managers
- ** Technical skills**:must have an applied knowledge of concepts and practices common in the industry, such as construction technologies, contracts, and technical drawi