Job Title
Project Planning ManagerJob Description Summary
Lead the planning, scheduling, project controls, and performance management functions for large-scale building construction projects. The role is responsible for ensuring effective project monitoring, forecasting, risk management, progress tracking, and timely project delivery through robust planning and controls processes.Job Description
About the Role:
- Develop and manage integrated project schedules, resource-loaded plans, project baselines, and recovery programs for large building construction projects.
- Monitor project progress, critical paths, milestones, productivity, earned value, and performance metrics, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Lead cost control, forecasting, cash flow monitoring, risk analysis, delay analysis, and change management processes.
- Prepare and present project dashboards, MIS reports, executive summaries, and progress reviews for senior management and clients.
- Coordinate with construction, engineering, procurement, commercial, and site teams to drive project performance and timely project completion.
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with 12-18 years of experience in project planning and controls for large-scale building construction projects.
- Strong expertise in Primavera P6, MS Project, project scheduling, resource planning, cost control, earned value management (EVM), and progress measurement systems.
- Proven experience working on institutional projects such as university campuses, schools, colleges, hospitals, commercial complexes, airports, or large mixed-use developments.
- Strong understanding of project lifecycle management, delay analysis, risk management, project reporting, and stakeholder management.
- Excellent analytical, communication, leadership, and team management skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and project teams.
Why Join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live, working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from:
- Being part of a growing global company.
- Career development and promote-from-within culture.
- An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion.
We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion-from-within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
- 12–18 years of experience in project planning and controls for large-scale building construction projects
- Expertise in Primavera P6
- Expertise in Microsoft Project
- Experience with project scheduling and resource planning
- Experience with cost control and earned value management
- Experience with progress measurement systems
- Experience working on institutional, commercial, airport, hospital, or large mixed-use construction projects
- Understanding of project lifecycle management, delay analysis, risk management, project reporting, and stakeholder management
- Strong analytical, communication, leadership, and team management skills
Cushman & Wakefield Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cushman & Wakefield and has not been reviewed or approved by Cushman & Wakefield.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is consistently referenced as part of the package. Feedback suggests this provides a solid baseline for long‑term savings across many U.S. roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and company holidays are regularly highlighted and described as a meaningful part of the offering. Feedback suggests time‑off benefits add tangible value alongside base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, plus backup care and wellbeing resources, are described as available. These offerings indicate a supportive approach to family needs in many roles.
Cushman & Wakefield Insights
What We Do
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 53,000 employees in 400 offices and 60 countries. In 2019, the firm had revenue of $8.8 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, valuation and other services.
