Associate Project Manager, Program Management Office

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.

Job Description

The Associate Project Manager is a generalist member of the PMO supporting a large federal facilities program delivered across multiple sites and task orders. You will work across PMO functions, including schedule, risk, change control, reporting, and deliverable review, and you will be deployed where the program needs support most, including site level work and phase gate reviews. You will operate with oversight from the PMO Director and senior project managers and may lead smaller scopes independently as you build experience.

This is a remote role on Eastern Time with travel to program sites as required. Candidates must be US citizens able to obtain a public trust and security clearance.

What you will do

- Support senior project managers across active task orders with planning, scheduling, procurement coordination, quality, and risk from initiation through closeout.
- Maintain site level risk registers and change control logs, confirm every entry has an owner and a mitigation, and prepare inputs for weekly program risk reviews.
- Track progress against approved baselines, report status and variances, and draft corrective action plans for review.
- Support deliverable reviews and phase gate checkpoints, including coordinating technical reviewers, tracking comments to closure, and confirming deliverables meet contract requirements before submission to the client.
- Prepare and maintain project documentation in accordance with program governance and client requirements, and support the transition of project data into the program's systems, including Power BI and Kahua.
- Identify work requested outside current contract scope and route it through the change control process.
- Step into a needs package or site team on short notice to cover gaps, coordinate with field staff, and report back to the PMO.
- Coordinate with client and partner counterparts to keep submissions, approvals, and reporting aligned.
- Model behaviors consistent with CBRE RISE values. Other duties as assigned.


 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related experience.
• Two or more years supporting projects in a federal, infrastructure, facilities, or construction environment. Experience on a federal program with multiple task orders is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of schedule, risk, and change control fundamentals and the ability to apply them without detailed direction.
• Ability to read technical drawings and specifications well enough to support deliverable and site reviews.
• Strong written communication, with the ability to turn field and technical information into clear status for leadership.
• Comfort working across organizational boundaries with client, partner, and subcontractor staff.
• Ability to travel to program sites

Preferred

• CAPM or PMP.
• Experience with Power BI, Kahua, or similar project information systems.
• Prior exposure to FAA, DoD, or other federal facilities programs.
• Familiarity with earned value or level of effort contract tracking.

Additional Information

The salary range for this full-time role is $100K - $125K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package.  Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications. *On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and https://www.heery.com/

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