About the Role
Turner & Townsend is seeking Senior Consultants to manage the transition of data center projects from lease execution through construction mobilization. This role involves preconstruction management, project handover, and stakeholder management, supporting a confidential hyperscale data center client. Early joiners will have the opportunity to shape the team's standards.
Responsibilities
- Absorb and package signed deals, completing handover checks against client requirements.
- Co-lead project launch meetings onsite with the client project lead.
- Coordinate preconstruction activities as design details mature.
- Drive open items to documented closure.
- Commission schedule and cost reviews and incorporate findings into the site baseline.
- Maintain the action log and produce milestone reporting inputs.
- Manage the day-to-day interface with developers, client project leads, and internal specialists.
- Transfer each site to the onsite delivery team at mobilization, including baseline, open item register, and accepted risks.
- Contribute to the development of team standards and apply lessons learned.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience in project handover, preconstruction coordination, change control, and open item tracking.
- Ability to interpret and act on schedule and cost reviews and pursue resulting issues with a developer.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects at different stages.
- Ability to secure information and commitments from parties who do not report to the role.
- Ability to lead meetings with senior stakeholders and secure assigned actions.
- Ability to work to a standard that is under development and contribute to establishing it.
- Technical skills to read, understand, and communicate contract requirements, including construction drawings and specifications.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including concise reporting to senior client stakeholders.
- Technologically proficient, including MS Suite and Google Workspace.
- Ability to understand and follow site HSSE policies.
Skills
- Preconstruction management
- Project handover
- Stakeholder management
- MS Suite
- Google Workspace
Location
- San Francisco (preferred)
- Other locations considered
- Remote considered
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Consultant
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Degree not required
Salary/Compensations
- $140K-$160K per year
About the Company
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Works with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources.
- Capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc.
Equal Opportunity
- Qualified candidates with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with LA County ordinance and CA law.
- Turner & Townsend is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
