Construction Management Director

3 weeks ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Turner & Townsend Full time
Job Title: Construction Management Director

We are seeking a highly experienced Construction Management Director to join our team at Turner & Townsend. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for overseeing large-scale pharmaceutical construction projects in the Chicago area.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Work closely with the Executive Program Manager to execute the contracted scope of services.
  • Promote and follow Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) policies and regulations, and be fully committed to enhancing Site Safety culture and initiatives throughout all phases of the project.
  • Serve as the key point of contact and primary client relationship executive at a leadership level, building and maintaining long-term relationships with clients and key consultants, suppliers, and other 3rd parties working on the Project.
  • Participate in preconstruction discussions with clients at a leadership level.
  • Lead internal team and collaborate with external partners to develop delivery strategies, contractual obligations to manage 3rd parties, estimates, schedules, staffing plans, etc.
  • Oversee and assess all components of the Project Master Schedule throughout the lifecycle of the project to monitor that contractual obligations are met and to hold team members accountable to all expectations.
  • Oversee the integration of all projects multi-disciplines (Owner's, A/E, Contractors, Procurement & Supply chain) within the master schedule.
  • Develop the work plan that forms the project plan.
  • Serve as escalation point for all project, financial, business development, contractual, and client relationship risks for the work program relative to contractual obligations.
  • Provide suggestions to solve escalated project, staffing, financial, schedule, contractual, subcontractor, and client relationship issues throughout project lifecycle.
  • Negotiate issue resolution including change orders, contingency expenditures, and appropriate fee enhancements.
  • Conduct project risk assessments and escalate various risks to supervisor to provide visibility, mitigate risk, and create appropriate solutions.
  • Manage the development of design definition documents. Review, critique, and submit for approval all project definition documents.
  • Review and provide recommendations to change orders requests and impact mitigation strategies throughout the project life cycle. This includes scope, cost, schedule control, and cost reduction initiatives.
  • Ensure that estimates, HSE & Schedule Impacts from change order requests, throughout the project life cycle, are continually reviewed and validated as and when new information becomes available.
  • Review and provide feedback on the metrics and basis for progress reporting against the projects and contracts.
  • Reporting shall include performance measurement, forecasting, trending, issues, actions, progress, and overall status.
  • Establish constructability review guidelines and protocols.
  • Support approval or revisions over constructability review recommendations.
  • Develop guidelines and protocols for cost reduction initiatives. Review project level cost reduction recommendations.
  • Promote the use of sustainable design and construction methodologies to achieve the client's sustainability targets.
  • Review project level operability and maintainability recommendations.
  • Review design, procurement, and construction progress and provide recommendations for recovery plans.
  • Review and provide recommendations on project level safety recommendations and corrective actions.
  • Review and provide feedback on the framework for construction quality control.
  • Review and provide quality recommendations and corrective actions. Review and provide feedback on project level quality assurance plans.
  • Develop overall site logistics and phasing strategy. Approve Logistics and Phasing recommendations.
  • Review and maintain Project Manuals and Construction Management guidelines, policy, and procedures.
  • Review the claims resolutions recommendations.
  • Collaborate with appropriate internal and external stakeholders to achieve consent. Review all Beneficial Use recommendations.
  • Ensures Owner Rep staffing levels are sufficient, relative to contractual commitments, schedules, and constraints.
  • Plans and adapts owner rep resource management as needed to ensure proper staffing levels and results.
  • Continuously monitor performance of Turner & Townsend staff to ensure that the client does not spend time mentoring or managing.
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree (M.S. or MBA preferred).
  • Minimum of (15) years of demonstrated capital project/program leadership experience.
  • Experience managing an integrated team on large complex and multi-phase capital projects/programs consisting of multiple project elements.
  • Must have prior experience in life sciences or pharmaceutical construction.
  • Knowledge of multiple project delivery methods.
  • Proven track record of leading projects/programs of $500 million or greater.
  • 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 project/program.
  • Proven track record of following through on commitments.
  • Demonstrated experience in delivering major capital projects/programs successfully (on budget, on time, meeting safety and quality standards within approved scope).
  • Proven track record of partnering and issues resolution.
  • Demonstrated excellent communications, presentation, and written skills.

We offer a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. 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.

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