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Job overview
Turner & Townsend Heery seeks a Senior Project Manager to manage large-scale construction projects through pre-design, design, construction, commissioning, and close-out. The role oversees project finances, schedules, quality, consultants, contractors, and technical teams, while coordinating closely with client representatives. The ideal candidate has experience managing large occupied MEP renovation projects and A/E consultant services and construction administration.
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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 programs, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend Heery are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects.
Responsibilities
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Provides overall management and administration of pre-design, design, and construction, commissioning and close-out services.
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Confirms that appropriate project authorization and funding are in place before activities begin; prepares cash flow projections and monitors financial performance.
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Oversee the acquisition and receipt of capital equipment and coordinates with clients for move-in and start-up.
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Administers the process of selecting design professionals, consultants and contractors to design and construct capital projects.
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This includes preparing scopes of work, soliciting services, evaluating credentials and interviewing potential contractors, evaluating references and past performance, and negotiating fees and services.
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Provides leadership to various individuals associated with each capital project.
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Manages and/or coordinates activities of technical discipline team members, specialty consultants, construction inspectors, and project support staff.
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Partners with planners during scope development, cost estimates and project scheduling and may assist maintenance and operation staff with warranty compliance.
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Works closely with client representatives on a day-to-day basis.
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Ensures that safe working practices are followed during construction.
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Provides overall project cost control, schedule management and quality assurance for projects from the pre-design phase through project closeout.
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Anticipates potential problems that may jeopardize project success and identifies alternative solutions.
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Assures that projects adhere to approved scope, are completed within budget, on schedule and at the prescribed level of quality.
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Maintains project records and produces various reports. Maintains critical project information in an automated project management system on a continuous bases.
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Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
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A Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Construction Management or related relevant experience. Master's degree preferred.
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Minimum of ten (15) years of related experience managing large, occupied MEP renovation projects (over $50M) throughout all design and construction project phases and managing A/E consultant services and construction administration.
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities (SKAs):
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Possess knowledge of sound design and construction management practices and principles through all phases of work (planning, estimating, scheduling, inspection and financial closeout.
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Ability to manage and coordinate design and construction projects with minimum supervision.
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Experience in grading design and earthwork with site design construction knowledge.
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Ability to effectively communicate (in oral and written form) and to use a computer for email, correspondence, reports, spreadsheets and automated project management systems.
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Ability to create management reports.
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Ability to coordinate work with customer departments, campus administration, designers, other project managers, government agencies, and other service and support agencies.
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Ability to manage project finances, make and review estimates, negotiate contract change orders with A/E firms and contractors, and to develop and manage value-engineering efforts.
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Ability to perform contractor and A/E evaluations.
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Ability to review construction drawings and specifications for constructability.
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Knowledge of national, state and local codes and regulations applicable to the design and construction of site work (horizontal) projects.
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Ability to function in a team-oriented environment, taking on new tasks with enthusiasm and energy.
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horizontal) projects.
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Ability to function in a team-oriented environment, taking on new tasks with enthusiasm and energy.
Preferences:
- Professional registration, CCM.
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.
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.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and https://www.heery.com/
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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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 1,804 open Construction Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$115–181K/yr977 salary ranges
- US median$48–63/hr95 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Construction Project Manager jobs in Washington, D.C. and 1,804 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Construction Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,318 postings).
- Education
- 385 of the 1,804 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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