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Senior Project Manager

Turner & Townsend.com

Office

Melbourne, Australia & New Zealand, Australia

Full Time

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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Our role as Senior Project Managers is to be the conduit between commercial developers / end users and their consultants and contractors and other various stakeholders. We aim to manage project programme, budget, and quality of delivery to facilitate the best possible project outcomes.
Our team is looking for a senior project manager to deliver a mix of Commercial/Retail Developer projects:

  • To lead Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex projects.
  • To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards.
  • Manage all aspects of the project and both the internal team and consultant team to deliver quality outputs on time.
  • Manage commissions, cashflows, budgets plus assist with resourcing and superintendent recommendations.
  • Training and development of junior staff (transfer of skills to graduates and assistant PMs).

If you join our team, you will be responsible for end-to-end service delivery of complex, and interesting projects. You will be able to see how projects are identified, assessed, planned, and then taken through the preliminary design, detailed design, tender, construction and close out phases. You will assist with development of budgets, will manage complex stakeholder arrangements, manage and assess tenders, co-ordinate contractors and consultants and will get to take ownership of the projects you deliver. 
 

Qualifications

  • Manage builder procurement, tendering, and contract negotiations.
  • Act as Superintendent under relevant building contracts.
  • Manage the design process for architectural, structural, and services.
  • Drive program, budget, and quality control to meet the company’s high standards.
  • Establish and implement best-in-class delivery systems and processes.
  • Build strong industry relationships with builders, consultants, and key stakeholders.
  • 7+ years’ experience from a client-side project management consultancy.
  • Strong commercial acumen, with a solid understanding of construction law and contract administration.
  • Construction project management experience across commercial occupier projects
  • Significant experience in end to end delivery of medium size projects from scoping to approvals to construction; ideally on the client side
  • Strong stakeholder management
  • Relevant Tertiary Qualification related to Construction Project Management
  • Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
  • Planning and managing quality, safety, health and environment issues on projects.
  • Risk identification and management.
  • Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project.
  • Project planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
  • Advising upon the procurement of contractors and consultants.
  • Managing the change control process.
  • Monitoring and advising upon project finances.
  • Ensuring the production of formal project progress and other reports.
  • Understanding of construction regulatory, governance and legislative requirements

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.  

At Turner & Townsend we firmly believe that our people are at the heart of our success and we continually strive to create a great place to work. 

We promote integrity in everything that we do and apply our expertise to shape a better environment for future generations and, ultimately, generate value for our communities. 

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 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from all sectors of the community.  

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application. 

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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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. 

Senior Project Manager

Office

Melbourne, Australia & New Zealand, Australia

Full Time

November 18, 2025

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