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Senior Project Manager

Turner & Townsend · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Full-timeOn site10+ yrsCA$90k–CA$155kListed as no visa sponsorshipConstruction
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In short

The Senior Project Manager will lead individual tasks throughout the design, procurement, and construction process while coordinating with stakeholders and contractors. They are responsible for maintaining project budgets and schedules, managing change orders, and ensuring compliance with document controls.

What they're looking for

MUST-HAVE SKILLS

Project managementInfrastructureAviationBudgetingSchedulingProcurementConstruction managementStakeholder management

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Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, or a related field and a minimum of 10 years of project management experience in construction. Airport or aviation industry experience is highly preferred, and PMP certification is considered a strong asset.

About the employer

Turner & Townsend

We're global programme managers – helping to deliver projects that define how people live, work and connect.

We're Turner & Townsend – a global programme manager. For more than 80 years, we’ve helped deliver the projects that define how people live, work and connect.

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From shaping resilient cities to advancing clean energy, we approach every challenge with the same goal – to make a meaningful and lasting impact. Partnering closely with our clients, we plan, manage and deliver complex projects and portfolios. Our teams bring the leadership, commercial expertise and independent advice that unlocks performance and protects investment. From the metro systems moving millions of people to the data centres powering the digital economy, we bring ambitious plans to life and deliver outcomes that matter.

INDUSTRY
Construction
COMPANY
Partnership
FOUNDED
1946
HEADQUARTERS
Horsforth, Leeds
SIZE
10,001+on LinkedIn
OFFICES
1 on LinkedIn
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Questions about this role

Is this Turner & Townsend role remote?
Tagged on site.
What does it pay?
The posting lists CA$90,000–CA$155,000 a year.
Does it sponsor visas?
Listed as no visa sponsorship.
What experience does it ask for?
Listed as 10+ years.

The posting, in full

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.

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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

You are an expert Senior Project Manager looking for the next step or are currently undertaking a similar role in a similar environment; a highly regulated and complex operational environment in the infrastructure sector (aviation preferred). This is a full-time site-based role, 5 days / week in the office is required.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be involved in:

  • Leading individual tasks throughout the design, procurement and construction process.
  • Working with the client team to identify initial budgets and scheduling at project feasibility.
  • Setting up and lead meetings, transcribe meeting minutes and drive action items to closure.
  • Ensuring project compliance with client’s document controls and file specifications.
  • Collaborating and coordinating client stakeholders, consultants, client direct vendors and contractors.
  • Providing regular reporting.
  • Aiming to maintain budget and schedule and identify potential solutions for issues that look to jeopardize same.
  • Running procurement, recommendation and appointment of consultants and contractors, and establishing quotations and order placement with client direct vendors.
  • Eliciting and reviewing results from relevant appointed parties.
  • Coordinating Contracts and Master Service Agreements through the project lifecycle.
  • Change order management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, or a similar field
  • PMP certification is highly desirable
  • A minimum of 10 years of experience as a Project Manager in assisting or supervising construction
  • Airport/Aviation experience is highly preferred
  • Aviation planning experience or relevant industry qualifications will be strongly considered
  • Proficient in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, & Project or P6.
  • Good with numbers, technology, and web-based data platforms.

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
  • We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex 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

The base salary range for this full-time role is $90,000 - $155,000 per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package. Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.

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.

We are an Equal opportunity employer who will ensure accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request. 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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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:

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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.

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