Senior Design Execution Project Manager

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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Design Execution Project Manager to run the design activities related to Hyperscale Data Center construction and other projects for a large technology client. Serves as client's agent, consultant, advisor, and authorized owner's representative through all design phases and all design fields until hand-off to client's construction team. Most of the duties and responsibilities are associated with managing, coordinating, and administrating the client's design consultants used in the design efforts. This position is responsible for taking the program level Plan of Record and localizing the design. Ideal candidate is comfortable facilitating large design coordination meetings with multiple design subject areas, including "page turns" design meetings. etc.

This is a remote position with travel to project sites in and around Atlanta, Charleston, and Raleigh. Travel is expected to project sites about 30% of the time.

What you’ll do

• Facilitate planning and kickoff workshops with internal & external stakeholders;
• Facilitate design reviews in partnership with external partners;
• Facilitate large scale workshops as necessary;
• Author scopes of work for contracts and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders;
• Issue and administer contracts;
• Define and track deliverables from various parties;
• Track of cost, schedule, progress and scope;
• Provide health reporting on cost, schedule, scope and progress;
• Build optimal design teams from matrixed internal stakeholders and the strategic procurement of external partners;
• Change management for project scope and design contracts;
• Facilitate technical decisions in-line with project needs;
• Coordinate design activities with procurement and construction;
• Provide clear and open communication with all internal stakeholder and external partners;
• Ensure the issuance of engineering information to the right party, at the right time, in the right format.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field
• Professional licensure (PE, NCARB, RA) is strongly preferred or significant professional experience (+10 years) may substitute
• Prior experience with data center design and/or construction preferred
• Strong understanding of construction principles and practices
• Experience in the preparation of project plans, specifications
• Experience drafting scopes of work
• Experience of government regulations
• Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Working understanding of AutoCAD is necessary for drawing reviews / mark-ups

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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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.

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