Project Manager - Real Estate

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

Who are you?

You are an exceptional Project Manager with 7-10 years of post-graduate experience, demonstrating a strong track record of delivering complex industrial, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, warehouse, data centers, and corporate workplace projects. You have experience representing owners and occupiers through all phases of project delivery, from business case development and planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and occupancy.

You bring maturity, sound judgement, and confidence to complex project environments, and are comfortable balancing operational, commercial, and project delivery objectives in active business and industrial settings.

Job Description

• Managing capital projects for industrial facilities, warehouses, manufacturing plants, logistics centers, data centers, corporate offices, and workplace environments.
• Acting as the owner's representative, ensuring alignment between project objectives, operational requirements, and business goals.
• Coordinating phased construction activities within active operational environments while minimizing disruptions to business operations.
• Leading tenant improvement, workplace modernization, facility expansion, relocation, and fit-out projects.
• Collaborating with facility, operations, engineering, health and safety, and business teams throughout project delivery.
• Supporting site selection, due diligence, occupancy planning, and transition activities where required.
• Managing multiple concurrent projects within capital programs and portfolio environments.
• Ensuring projects are delivered in accordance with client standards for quality, schedule, cost, and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7-10 years of progressive project management experience within construction, real estate, industrial, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, distribution, or corporate occupier environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects on behalf of owners, occupiers, developers, or within a professional services/consulting environment.
• Proven experience managing projects from concept through completion.
• Experience delivering projects within active operating facilities, including renovations, expansions, facility upgrades, and phased construction activities.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• PMP designation is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of project controls, budgeting, scheduling, procurement, contract administration, and risk management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and project scheduling tools such as MS Project and/or Primavera P6.
• Excellent stakeholder management, leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about delivering successful projects and exceptional client service.
• Strong relationship builder with a collaborative and client-focused approach.
• Highly professional, dependable, and comfortable in client-facing environments.
• Commercially minded with strong business acumen and problem-solving skills.
• Organized, proactive, and detail-oriented.
• Able to work independently while contributing positively to a high-performing and growing team.
• Committed to continuous learning, innovation, and excellence in project delivery.

Additional Information

What's in it for you...

• 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)

• Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program

• RRSP option with company matching

• Annual learning and development budget

• Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth

• Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role

• Comprehensive package of Vacation days, flex days and sick days.

• A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives

• Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging

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.

At Turner & Townsend, we wholeheartedly adopt diversity. This dedication extends to our team, clients, and communities. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from individuals regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or any other legally protected grounds. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Turner & Townsend is dedicated to encouraging a safe, healthy, and accessible environment. We are an Equal opportunity employer who will ensure accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request.

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Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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LinkedIn

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.