
Senior Construction Project Manager- Ground-Up Projects
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Job overview
Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager with prior experience supporting ground-up construction projects. The role manages project teams, stakeholders, schedules, design teams, suppliers, costs, and project information across multiple construction projects. It also provides technical and strategic guidance to clients and project teams, supports project governance and reporting, and identifies opportunities to improve internal processes.
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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 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.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager to join our team. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting ground-up construction projects.
Responsibilities:
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Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
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Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.
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Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized
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Ensure application of best practice on all projects.
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Production of formal project status reports and other reports as required.
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Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards are applied correctly.
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Manage the interface between all suppliers through monthly trackers and weekly reviews.
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Manage the flow of project information between the project team through regular meetings and written communications.
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Forecast and update key project milestones.
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Manage and monitor local design teams in accordance with commission criteria.
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Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
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Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
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Provide expertise for cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance where required.
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Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals, timelines and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.
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Client management – assist in developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
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Strategic Thinking - provides advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’ objectives and business objectives.
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Knowledge management – ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project is captured.
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Process improvement – Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or applicable bachelor’s degree and or equivalent experience.
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Minimum 5-7 years of relevant project management experience.
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Ground up construction experience is strongly preferred.
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Aviation experience a plus.
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Strong organizational and management skills – the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with the broader team.
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Effective presentation skills.
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Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.
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Excellent communication skills.
Additional Information
On site requirements might change based on client 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.
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.
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.
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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.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,773 open Construction Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$108–143K/yr76 salary ranges
- US median$48–63/hr97 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 114 open Construction Project Manager jobs in New York and 1,773 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- City of New York12 open
- Actalent6 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Construction Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,289 postings).
- Education
- 381 of the 1,773 open Construction Project Manager jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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