Company Description
Who is Turner & Townsend?
All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.
Job Description
The Project Manager Lead is responsible for leading and delivering construction, fit-out, refurbishment,
and workplace projects with individual project values of up to €2M. The role serves as the primary
interface between the client, project stakeholders, and delivery teams, ensuring projects are executed
efficiently, safely, and in accordance with agreed objectives.
In addition to managing individual projects, the Project Manager Lead is responsible for maintaining
oversight of the client's project portfolio through dedicated project trackers, providing accurate
reporting, clear visibility of project status, and effective prioritization of activities across all assignments.
Your main mission will be to:
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Lead projects from initiation through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and final handover.
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Manage projects with values up to €2M, ensuring delivery within approved scope, budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
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Serve as the primary point of contact for clients and key stakeholders.
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Develop and maintain project execution plans, delivery strategies, schedules, budgets, and risk registers.
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Manage the client's project portfolio tracker, ensuring all projects, actions, milestones, risks, budgets, and key dates are accurately monitored and reported.
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Provide regular project and portfolio reporting, including dashboards, status updates, financial summaries, and executive presentations.
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Coordinate all project stakeholders, including consultants, contractors, suppliers, Facility
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Management teams, landlords, and client representatives.
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Lead procurement activities, including tendering, contractor selection, bid evaluation, contract negotiations, and contract administration.
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Monitor project financial performance through budgeting, forecasting, cost control, change management, invoicing, and final account reconciliation.
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Participate in pre-construction activities, including constructability reviews, risk assessments, sequencing strategies, and mitigation planning.
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Oversee project delivery and construction activities to ensure compliance with project objectives, technical specifications, and contractual requirements.
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Facilitate project governance through regular progress meetings, stakeholder workshops, and decision-making forums.
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Proactively identify risks, constraints, and opportunities, implementing corrective actions where required.
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Ensure compliance with applicable Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ) requirements, CBRE standards, and client procedures.
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Manage project close-out activities, including snagging, testing and commissioning follow-up, practical completion, handover documentation, and warranty management.
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Establish and maintain strong working relationships with clients, contractors, consultants, and internal teams.
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Support continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to the development of project management best practices.
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Mentor and support junior project management resources when required.
Qualifications
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Experience delivering commercial fitout projects
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M&E HVAC experience
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Fluent in both German and English
Additional Information
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/
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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.
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
Twitter
Instagram
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.
