Senior Project Manager

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.

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Job Description
We are seeking a highly capable Senior Project Manager (SPM) to join our Life Sciences sector team in Melbourne. This position will be a key role in leading the successful delivery of complex projects within the biocontainment, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and specialist laboratory infrastructure domains.

Responsibilities
Project Delivery

• Lead end to end project delivery across planning, design, procurement, construction and commissioning phases
• Manage all aspects of project governance, scope, cost, schedule, quality and risk to ensure successful project outcomes
• Act as a key point of contact between the client, contractor, and consultant teams, managing day-to-day interfaces and maintaining alignment across disciplines.

Construction & Technical Oversight

• Oversee construction activity and provide strong onsite leadership to ensure alignment with client, stakeholder, technical and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate and manage commissioning qualification, and validation activities, ensuring systems, equipment and facilities meet all design, safety and regulatory compliance standards.
• Support coordination and delivery of specialist services packages in line with project standards and compliance requirements.
• Facilitate integration between design engineering to achieve efficient hand over and operational readiness.

Contract Administratio
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• Administer consultant and contractor engagements, including the assessment of variations, progress claims, and key deliverables.
• Provide input and support to commercial matters, working closely with the project lead to ensure accurate reporting and documentation.

Stakeholder & Client Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with the client team and project stakeholders, ensuring their expectations are understood and addressed.
• Lead coordination meetings, produce timely progress reports, and escalate risks or issues appropriately.

Team Leadership & Mentoring

• Support, guide, and mentor junior staff including Graduates and Assistant Project Managers, fostering capability development within the delivery team.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, sector capability development and knowledge sharing across the Life Science portfolio

Program & Scheduling Input

• Provide regular input to the program team to support the planning and tracking of works.
• Monitor progress against milestones, identify delays or risks early, and support the development of mitigation strategies.

Quality, Compliance & Safety

• Ensure construction activities meet relevant quality benchmarks, project specifications, and PC3 laboratory compliance standards.
• Support project quality assurance processes and contribute to site inspections and documentation review.

Qualifications

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification related to Architecture, Engineering, Science or Construction / Project Management
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in project management with a strong track record in complex construction delivery.
• Experience in the delivery of laboratory, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or similarly mission critical/ technical environments is highly desirable.
• Tier1/Tier 2 contractor experience highly desirable
• Strong skills in contracts administration, stakeholder engagement, and coordination of multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery within live, multi-phase and technically challenging environments.
• Strong commercial acumen, with a solid understanding of contract administration.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with a fine attention to detail

Additional Information
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.

At Turner & Townsend we firmly believe that our people are at the heart of our success and we continually strive to create a great place to work.

We promote integrity in everything that we do and apply our expertise to shape a better environment for future generations and, ultimately, generate value for our communities.

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 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.

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