Consultant Project Manager – Construction

Overview

Join Turner & Townsend in Manchester as a Project Manager within the Real Estate team. You will lead end-to-end project commissions, act as the primary client interface, and ensure projects hit time, cost and quality targets. You’ll set success criteria, govern processes, plan and monitor delivery, and coordinate a cross‑functional team. This role offers impactful work on diverse commissions, including potential advisory work on large urban regeneration funding initiatives.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• healthy work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer
• inclusive workplace
• opportunities for career growth
• collaborative culture

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project management commissions
• Be the day-to-day client interface to ensure objectives are met and projects deliver on time, cost and quality
• Manage commissions up to 40m (larger in advisory contexts such as urban regeneration funding)
• Advise at project conception on approaches to achieve objectives
• Establish overall success criteria (time, cost, technical, performance)
• Plan and manage quality, safety, health and environment
• Establish project governance, processes, and systems
• Produce detailed project plan and oversee procurement of resources
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional project team
• Monitor performance using KPIs to improve delivery
• Manage change control processes
• Monitor and advise on project finances
• Oversee information flow and reporting to client and consultants
• Interfacing with client and other consultants at all stages

Key requirements

• Degree in relevant discipline (desirable)
• Proven experience managing construction/refurbishment projects, ideally in a consultancy environment (essential)

• Client-focused communication
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership of cross-functional teams
• Project management
• Time and cost control
• Quality, safety, health and environment governance

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