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Turner & Townsend

Senior Project Manager

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Halifax, NS
Senior level
Hybrid
Halifax, NS
Senior level
Leads commercial and retail fit-out projects through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Manages budgets, schedules, contracts, vendors, consultants, change orders, reporting, document controls, site visits, payments, punch lists, and client coordination. Identifies and resolves risks affecting project delivery while maintaining stakeholder communication and project compliance.
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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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be involved in: 

  • Leading individual tasks throughout the design, procurement and construction process including furniture install and coordination with client I.T. 
  • Working with the client team to identify initial budgets and scheduling at project feasibility. 
  • Setting up and lead meetings, transcribe meeting minutes and drive action items to closure. 
  • Ensuring project compliance with client’s document controls and file specifications. 
  • Collaborating and coordinating client stakeholders, consultants, client direct vendors and contractors. 
  • Providing regular reporting. 
  • Aiming to maintain budget and schedule and identify potential solutions for issues that look to jeopardize same. 
  • Running procurement, recommendation and appointment of consultants and contractors, and establishing quotations and order placement with client direct vendors. 
  • Eliciting and reviewing results from relevant appointed parties. 
  • Coordinating Contracts and Master Service Agreements through the project lifecycle. 
  • Change order management. 
  • Attending weekly or bi-weekly site visits when in construction. 
  • Administrating project observation reports. 
  • Processing payments to consultants, contractors and direct vendors in liaison with consultant team. 
  • Punch-list management 
  • Participation in commissioning 
  • Administering and coordinating project closeout documentation including lessons learned workshops. 

Qualifications

  • A minimum of 4 - 7 years of experience as a Project Manager in assisting or supervising construction 
  • Commercial or retail fit out experience is required 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, or a similar field 
  • PMP certification is highly desirable 
  • Proficient in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, & Project or P6. 
  • Good with numbers, technology, and web-based data platforms. 

Additional Information

What's in it for you...

  • 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)
  • Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program
  • RRSP option with company matching
  • Annual learning and development budget
  • Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth
  • Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role
  • We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex and sick days 
  • A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives
  • Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.  

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application. 

This posting reflects an existing vacancy that we are actively hiring for.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

We may use automated or AI-based tools to support the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants.

 

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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