Turner & Townsend

Associate Director – Program Management, Construction

Turner & Townsend

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Pennsylvania • Texas • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Serve as the key point of contact and primary client relationship executive, building and maintaining long-term relationships with clients, consultants, suppliers, and other third parties.
  • Lead preconstruction discussions with clients and internal teams to develop contractual obligations such as estimates, schedules, staffing plans, and business plans.
  • Oversee and assess the project's master schedule throughout its lifecycle, ensuring contractual obligations are met and holding team members accountable.
  • Promote and follow health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies, enhancing site safety culture and initiatives.
  • Oversee the integration of all project disciplines within the master program schedule.
  • Develop the work plan that forms the program management plan (PMP).
  • Serve as the escalation point for project, financial, business development, contractual, and client relationship risks.
  • Provide suggestions and negotiate issue resolution for escalated project issues, including change orders and contingency expenditures.
  • Manage the development and approval of design definition documents.
  • Review and provide recommendations for change order requests, impact mitigation strategies, and cost reduction initiatives.
  • Ensure that estimates, HSE, and schedule impacts from change orders are continually reviewed and validated.
  • Review and provide feedback on progress reporting metrics against the program, projects, and contracts.
  • Establish and support constructability of review guidelines and protocols.
  • Develop program guidelines and protocols for cost reduction initiatives and operability/maintainability recommendations.
  • Review design, procurement, and construction progress, providing recommendations for recovery plans.
  • Review and provide feedback on safety recommendations and corrective actions.
  • Develop and review the program-level framework for construction quality control.
  • Develop an overall program of site logistics and phasing strategy.
  • Review project manuals, construction management guidelines, policies, and procedures.
  • Review claims resolution recommendations.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve project consent and review beneficial use recommendations.
  • Ensure sufficient owner rep staffing levels relative to contractual commitments and constraints.
  • Continuously monitor the performance of T&T staff to ensure efficient client management

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering or field related to construction.
  • Graduate degree in construction management or engineering is preferred.
  • 10+ years of relevant project and program management experience.
  • 2+ years managing high performing programs in a consulting environment.
  • Knowledge of multiple project delivery methods
  • Proven track record of leading programs
  • Demonstrated experience providing leadership of a team in an integrated project delivery organization.
  • Demonstrated experience in negotiating multi-million-dollar contracts as part of a multi-billion-dollar program.
  • Proven track record of following through on commitments.
  • Demonstrated experience in delivering major capital programs successfully (on budget, on time, meeting safety and quality standards within approved scope)
  • Proven track record of building consultative and collaborative partnerships.
  • Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, organizational and communication skills.
Benefits
  • health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies
  • flexible working environment
  • professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementprogram managementcontract negotiationcost reductionchange order managementconstruction quality controlschedulingrisk managementestimationhealth, safety, and environment (HSE)
Soft Skills
client relationship managementleadershipcommunicationorganizational skillscollaborationproblem-solvingpresentation skillsnegotiationteam managementstakeholder engagement
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in construction managementBachelor’s degree in engineeringGraduate degree in construction managementGraduate degree in engineering