Construction Senior Project Manager/Project Executive (Special Projects Division, Turner)

Turner Construction, a leading General Contractor with a 117 year history spanning iconic projects across the world, is looking for construction professionals with at least ten years’ of commercial, healthcare, education, or biotech experience to lead multiple tenant improvement and renovation project teams for our Seattle office.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior position within Turner’s busy Seattle office’s Special Projects Division (SPD). SPD performs non-structural tenant fit-out and renovation work, along with select stand-alone structures.  This specialized market segment of Turner focuses on the flexibility, efficiency and sensitivity that clients require for their interior and special projects. Special Projects/Interior work has long been a mainstay of the Seattle and Bellevue offices, with recent work including commercial interiors, medical office buildings, laboratory spaces, restaurants, data centers/call centers, financial and investment facilities, high-end and corporate interiors, LEED Certified projects, amusement, seismic and building renovations, and condominium build-outs.

Along with the Business Development team, an SPD Sr. Project Manager/Project Executive is responsible for pursuing, proposing, and winning local contracts for TI/Renovation projects, and then leading individual teams to the successful completion of awarded projects. Existing knowledge of and relationships with the relevant potential client-base is required. Turner values leaders who are actively engaged in problem solving, and encourage their teams to ask questions and share opinions and new ideas. Candidates with excellent interpersonal communication skills looking to contribute to supportive team structures and mentorship are encouraged to apply.  Prior experience as a project/construction executive or senior project manager involved in pursuit of new projects is required.

Position Description: Manages multiple projects or individual larger projects/accounts, including management of SPD Project Managers.

Reports To: SPD Manager or SPD Operations Manager

Essential Duties & Responsibilities*:
Train, develop and manage Project Managers, Superintendents, and assistant level staff, including providing input on performance evaluations.
Develop and manage client relationships.
Generate new sales.
Lead competitive bid teams and respond to all other proposals.
In conjunction with Business Development, develop and negotiate contract with owner.
Responsible for project budget and profitability.
Manage and develop staff as assigned, including providing input on performance evaluations.
Ensure strict adherence to safety, ethics and compliance requirements at all times.
Direct and manage preconstruction and budget development.
Drive enforcement of safety protocols by the project staff.
Ensure that Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) protocols are in place.
Oversee master project schedule.
Hold frequent, regular staff meetings on all projects to communicate appropriate information.
Ensure payments are received on time.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of ten years’ building construction experience required or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Knowledge of construction proposal, negotiation, interview process, cost, scheduling, estimating and engineering principles and techniques, as well as accounting principles. Familiar with various construction methods and materials, their characteristics, installation procedures and tolerances. Strong computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite of programs. Very strong verbal and written communications skills are a must.

Physical Demands: Performance of the duties will occasionally require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.
*May perform other duties as assigned.

Turner is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer minorities / females / veterans / individuals with disabilities/ sexual orientation / gender identity.
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