Turner & Townsend
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Project Manager - Construction

Pay
$130,000 – $140,000 per year
Location
Chicago, IL
Listed
3 days ago

About the role

Results-driven Execution Project Manager with expertise in leading industrial complex, cross-functional initiatives from planning through delivery. Skilled in project governance, stakeholder management, risk mitigation, budget oversight, and operational execution. Proven track record of driving project success, improving processes, and delivering business outcomes while maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.

An Execution Project Manager is responsible for leading the onsite delivery and execution of projects from initiation through completion, ensuring that scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business objectives are achieved. This role coordinates cross-functional teams, manages risks and dependencies, drives stakeholder engagement, and ensures project milestones are delivered successfully while aligning with organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of projects.
  • Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, and resource plans.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and facilitate collaboration across departments.
  • Track project progress, identify risks and issues, and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Manage project scope and oversee change management processes.
  • Communicate project status, milestones, and key decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Ensure compliance with organizational standards, governance processes, and quality requirements.
  • Drive accountability for deliverables and ensure timely execution of action plans.
  • Monitor project performance metrics and prepare executive-level reporting.
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives and lessons learned activities.

Key Skills

  • Project planning and execution
  • Stakeholder and relationship management
  • Risk and issue management
  • Budget and resource management
  • Strategic thinking and problem-solving
  • Leadership and team coordination
  • Communication and presentation skills
  • Change management
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution

Qualifications & Requirements

  • PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or similar project management certification preferred.
  • 4+ years of project management experience (5+ years preferred), ideally in industrial real estate or construction projects.
  • Demonstrated success delivering projects on time, within scope, and within budget.
  • Bachelor's degree (BA/BS/BEng/BArch) or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience managing industrial real estate projects, including MEP and HVAC systems; strong safety program experience preferred.
  • Strong leadership experience managing complex projects and cross-functional teams.
  • Valid driver's license required.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Additional Information

  • *On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*
  • *SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
  • 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.
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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About the Company

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.

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