Senior Construction Project Manager – Life Science Real Estate

About the role

Turner & Townsend, a global professional services firm owned mainly by CBRE, is hiring a Senior Construction Project Manager for Life Science real estate projects in São Paulo. The project manager takes responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, ensuring client objectives are met through effective service, and manages the overall project cost, schedule and budget.

Key responsibilities

• Interface with the client and other consultants at every project stage
• Manage the overall project cost, schedule and budget, and oversee general contractors and other directly contracted vendors and consultants
• Review construction proposals, pricing and scopes, assess work-in-place, and approve capital expenditure, including revisions of cost estimates
• Analyse, track and manage critical milestones to avoid schedule slips, and run client and stakeholder meetings
• Monitor and report on factors influencing construction costs, and support engineering decisions on cost and budget during design-build changes
• Review requests for payment, approve final invoices, payment applications and retention payments, and track equipment against the schedule
• Record occurrences that could lead to claims and advocate for the client in disputes, disagreements, modifications and change orders
• Coordinate scheduling consultant reviews and oversee the handover of building operations, including close-out documentation and warranties

Required profile

• Fluent English at a working level, to lead meetings, write reports and communicate with clients and suppliers
• Solid experience as a construction project manager and solid experience in Life Science, pharmaceutical or laboratory markets
• Engineering, architectural or another construction-related degree is mandatory
• Construction experience is mandatory
• Availability to live and work in São Paulo
• Management experience leading a team and managing revenue, resources and priorities

Required skills

• Microsoft Office tools (mandatory)
• Advanced spreadsheet, report writing and presentation skills
• PMI or equivalent certification is a plus