Talent Pool Project Management, Construction Projects

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Company Description
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
Every day we help our major general clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.
Job Description
This application refers to a Project Management Talent Pool from which we will be redirecting candidates in to Assistant, Professional and Senior Professional opened roles within our company mainly focus on the positions based in Colombia.
Key Activities

- Assisting the client Project Manager (PM) as required – including oversight of the overall construction effort
- Advising at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives.
- Advising upon the procurement of resources.
- Contract and Budget ownership for direct contracts as assigned
- Creating and coordinating the detailed Project Execution Plan detailed plans, and coordinating completion of GC PEP activities
- Proactively managing the risks relating to construction project execution and HES, working with the client PM – coordinating GC actions on risk as necessary and managing the risk register
- Support the design process, review drawings against project requirements, assess constructability and provide other construction input during early project phases as needed




- Assist client PM as required in reviewing and reporting on the overall construction effort and progress. Creating and coordinating with the Construction Field Representative, the Monthly, Daily and Event Reporting for the construction team.
- Coordinating and supporting the RFI and Submittal process, in concert with the cost controller for alignment with cost budgets
- Creating, coordinating, and issuing effective meeting minutes and other documentation for site progress meetings, Owner/Architect/Contractor meetings and other meetings as required
- Assisting the client PM in overall coordination of the construction effort in support of the effective safety, Quality Assurance / Quality Control (QA/QC), and labor relations programs which meet IIF and OE objectives
- Help to establish the success criteria of the project, including time, cost, technical, and quality performance parameters. Key focus is on the tactical, technical and process delivery of the project
- Identify and support that the appropriate line manager is aware of quality, safety, health, and environmental issues
- In concert with client, support development of contractor and overall purchasing strategy. Responsible for execution of defined strategy.
- Act as project schedule owner (or in support of project scheduler, if relevant),



and maintain schedule at the level required to track critical actions and milestones.
- Conduct kicks off and regular meetings with key project stakeholders (architects, engineers, suppliers, contractors), to track and report on progress
- Working with the other project function teams, reviewing as-built documents and other closeout items.

Qualifications

- 10 years of experience as a Project Manager in construction.
- Engineering or Architecture degree.
- Proven track record as a Lead Project Manager, a specialist in performance measurement and analysis and delivering successful solutions for clients.
- PMI certification is a plus.
- Commercial project experience, ideally with warehouse building, retail store, shopping center.
- Consultant experience preferred.
- Fluent in English and Spanish, to conduct meetings, create reports, and do presentations, etc.

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.
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.
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 or that hav

📌 Talent Pool Project Management, Construction Projects (Bogotá)
🏢 Turner & Townsend
📍 Bogotá