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Project Controls Manager - Real Estate Construction

Turner & Townsend

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Philadelphia, PA
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Job overview

Turner & Townsend seeks a Project Controls Manager to support cost and schedule controls on major real estate construction projects and programs. The role monitors project data and performance, maintains integrated master schedules, assesses schedule risks and changes, and provides reporting and recommendations to project teams, management, clients, and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience supporting project controls on large construction projects or programs.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Construction Project ControlsCost ControlsSchedule ControlsConstruction Industry KnowledgeProcurement RoutesValue ManagementValue EngineeringSpreadsheetsReport WritingPresentationsMicrosoft OfficeGoogle SuiteCloud-Based SoftwareP6 SchedulingCost ApplicationsPlanning ApplicationsProgress MeasurementSelf-MotivationProactivitySelf-OrganizationCoordinationPlanningOrganizationMultitaskingTeamworkEnglish CommunicationCost-Focused Project ControlsComplex Construction ProjectsCost-Loaded SchedulesIndustry Standards and Methods

Qualifications

AACE CertificationFull Passport With No Geographical LimitationCollege DegreeConstruction ExperienceLarge Complex Project Experience

Full job description

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 is seeking an ambitious Project Controls Manager to join our growing team. The ideal candidate is an ambitious construction professional with experience supporting project controls cost and schedule on large construction projects or programs.

Responsibilities :

  • Progress each project every month to ensure all projects are monitored for project controls in line with the monthly reporting cycle, checking accuracy and consistency of data.

  • Report milestones of planned value and earned value data, % complete on projects and provide project commentaries.

  • Attend project status meetings report on major material status; update forecast and schedule per progress discussion.

  • Summarize project performance metrics and provide specialized direction and recommendations to project teams and management for the resolution of diverse project controls issues.

  • Develop, monitor and update owners of Project Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).

  • Interface with project stakeholders as a trusted advisor to provide guidance and recommendations for the project.

  • Actively work with project managers and construction firms to maintain schedule integrity.

  • Track and review change orders with project management and cost management team.

  • Produce monthly reports for management.

  • Contract Administration (retention, T&Cs, insurance, allowances, contingency, incentives).

  • Prepare baseline schedules and schedule basis documents for approval by project teams.

  • Conduct schedule for resource loading and leveling.

  • Consolidate contractors schedule to incorporate into IMS.

  • Assess impacts on the critical path and near-critical activities and report to the project team.

  • Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in the development of alternative methods for corrective action.

  • Review schedules with project team members on a regular basis to ensure that accurate and timely data is incorporated in the schedule.

  • Facilitate interactive planning sessions and quantitative risk assessments when required.

  • Maintain record of scope changes, trends and variances that potentially affect performance.

  • Maintain liaison with clients and other consultants at all projects stages.

  • Implement best practices and reporting trends both internally and externally.

Project/Program specifications:

  • Project/Program specific responsibilities: Major project and program.

  • Market sector experience: Real Estate

  • Project/program size in dollar value: +$1bn

  • Software specific requirements: Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI, Project, P6, standard PMS

  • Certification requirements: AACE certified (preferred)

Qualifications

  • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.

  • Advanced skills with spreadsheets, report writing and presentations.

  • High proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite of applications.

  • Experience with cloud-based software.

  • P6 scheduling knowledge preferred.

  • Skilled in the use of industry accepted applications for cost, planning and progress measurement.

  • Self-Motivated and proactive.

  • Demonstrates a high level of self-organization, coordination and planning.

  • Good organization skills, ability to multi-task, be a team player and integrate easily with others.

  • Must have strong and professional English oral and written communication skills.

  • Full passport with no geographical limitation.

Education/Experience:

  • Experience working in a cost focused construction project controls role.

  • Experience working on large sized, complex construction projects.

  • College degree; ideally in construction, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or related.

  • Experience with cost loaded schedules.

  • Requires a detailed knowledge of industry standards and methods.

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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How this job compares

Set against the 23,277 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Pennsylvania median$109–180K/yr418 salary ranges
  • Pennsylvania median$50–58/hr23 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 820 open Project Manager jobs in Pennsylvania and 23,277 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
Experience
Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (20,219 postings).
Education
12,903 of the 23,277 open Project Manager jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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