Director - Program Management - Healthcare Construction

Director
- Program Management
- Healthcare Construction

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Director-Program Management to join our team to lead major construction programs. This individual will have a proven track record of setting up and delivering successful large scale construction programs.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the key point of contact and primary client relationship executive, building and maintaining long-term relationships with clients, consultants, suppliers, and other third parties.
• Lead preconstruction discussions with clients and internal teams to develop contractual obligations such as estimates, schedules, staffing plans, and business plans.
• Oversee and assess the project's master schedule throughout its lifecycle, ensuring contractual obligations are met and holding team members accountable.
• Promote and follow health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies, enhancing site safety culture and initiatives.
• Oversee the integration of all project disciplines within the master program schedule.
• Develop the work plan that forms the program management plan (PMP).
• Serve as the escalation point for project, financial, business development, contractual, and client relationship risks.
• Provide suggestions and negotiate issue resolution for escalated project issues, including change orders and contingency expenditures.
• Manage the development and approval of design definition documents.
• Review and provide recommendations for change order requests, impact mitigation strategies, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Ensure that estimates, HSE, and schedule impacts from change orders are continually reviewed and validated.
• Review and provide feedback on progress reporting metrics against the program, projects, and contracts.
• Establish and support constructability of review guidelines and protocols.
• Develop program guidelines and protocols for cost reduction initiatives and operability/maintainability recommendations.
• Review design, procurement, and construction progress, providing recommendations for recovery plans.
• Review and provide feedback on safety recommendations and corrective actions.
• Develop and review the program-level framework for construction quality control.
• Develop an overall program of site logistics and phasing strategy.
• Review project manuals, construction management guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Review claims resolution recommendations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve project consent and review beneficial use recommendations.
• Ensure sufficient owner rep staffing levels relative to contractual commitments and constraints.
• Continuously monitor the performance of T&T staff to ensure efficient client management
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering or field related to construction.
• Graduate degree in construction management or engineering is preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant project and program management experience.
• 5+ years managing high performing programs in a consulting environment.
• Proven experience delivering major healthcare programs.
• Knowledge of multiple project delivery methods.
• Proven track record of leading programs.
• Demonstrated experience providing leadership of a team in an integrated project delivery organization.
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating multi-million-dollar contracts as part of a multi-billion-dollar program.
• Proven track record of following through on commitments.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering major capital programs successfully (on budget, on time, meeting safety and quality standards within approved scope).
• Proven track record of building consultative and collaborative partnerships.
• Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, organizational and communication skills.

Additional Information:

The salary range for this full-time role is $225K-$285K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package. Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate's experience and qualifications.