Senior Project Manager- Federal Projects

Senior Project Manager
- Federal Projects

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in support of Federal Projects. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
• Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.
• Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized
• Ensure application of best practice on all projects.
• Production of formal project status reports and other reports as required.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards are applied correctly.
• Manage the interface between all suppliers through monthly trackers and weekly reviews.
• Manage the flow of project information between the project team through regular meetings and written communications.
• Forecast and update key project milestones.
• Manage and monitor local design teams in accordance with commission criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
• Provide expertise for cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance where required.
• Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals, timelines and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.
• Client management – assist in developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking - provides advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients' objectives and business objectives.
• Knowledge management – ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project is captured.
• Process improvement – Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Project/Program specifications

• Project/Program specific responsibilities: Ability to communicate effectively, orally, and in writing. Experience in preparing written reports, correspondence, and in briefing clients and management personnel.
• Successfully understand the fundamentals of current construction contract law and possess the ability to interpret construction contract drawings and Specifications and FAR/GSAR clauses.
• Understanding construction management procedures, including the ability to understand different project scheduling software (e.g., Prolog Manager, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project).
• Successfully authoring and creating written reports and other documentation.
• The Project Manager should have in depth working knowledge of construction project CPM schedules, and the related details of their use in managing and monitoring large building construction projects.
• Experience in conducting inspections to resolve problems on construction projects and briefing Government personnel.
• Knowledge of construction practices and techniques, including experience in proper installation methods of construction materials.
• Ability and experience in the actual inspection of construction materials, workmanship, and installation of systems.
• The knowledge of construction scheduling, budgeting, materials and methods, and industry design standards.
• In-depth knowledge of LEED and/or SITES standards preferred but not required.
• The Project Manager should be responsive to all communication from the Owner project team.
• Market sector experience: minimum 10 years' similar experience, experience on at least two (2) similar projects in the past ten (10) years with total cost exceeding $30M each
• Similar examples include, but are not limited to:
• Detention / Law Enforcement Facilities – minimum/medium security
• Governmental, Institutional or Commercial Office Buildings with site improvements (i.e. pavements, utilities, etc.)
• Project/program size in dollar value: $400+ Million Dollars
• Software specific requirements:
  Prolog Manager, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project
• Certification requirements:
  Certified Construction…