Director - Civil and Interior

Job Description

Business Unit:Project and Development Services

Level:Director (P3)

We are currently seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our client account based Project and Development Services team. Our teams priorities are:

- Thrilling and delivering strategic solutions to clients
- Actively collaborating across all JLL platforms
- Developing and inspiring our people
- Supporting ambitions beyond the workplace
- Applying new technology and data to achieve operational excellence and drive change
- Growing our business as established leaders in the real estate marketplace

Leading industry changing projects

As a Senior Project Manager at JLL, you will be directly responsible for executing complex project goals through agile and strategic leadership. Leveraging a national platform will allow you to focus on and lead industry changing projects that influence the future of work.

Your strong knowledge of projects, from start to finish, will speak to your holistic approach to client needs. Your influence will be founded in collaboratively working on a team, facilitating critical stakeholder meetings, providing on-site project leadership, and applying financial/schedule acumen to meet client goals.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will contribute to a highly successful team that is known for their work quality, leading client initiatives, and driving success through the completion of complex projects. Success will be measured by your ability to manage scope and deliver projects on time and on budget with an emphasis on client satisfaction.

Embracing the human side of business

You are people focused, seeking out and understanding the needs, perspectives and motivations of clients and team members alike. Your ability to manage client and vendor relationships will allow for seamless conflict resolution, account maintenance, and overall development of client relationships. You will demonstrate the ability to contribute to the culture, growth, and development of a team by providing onsite leadership to ensure client requirements and standards are being met.

Job Responsibilities

- Review data and analyze information to act decisively, think big, and manage your time to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- Inspire a team of Consultants, Designers, General Contractors, and Landlords to collaborate in ways that deliver great outcomes for our clients on our construction projects.
- Contribute to a diverse, supportive, and talented team.
- Demonstrate the ability to create a solutions-oriented environment focused on delivering value to the client.
- Look for opportunities to streamline processes and implement Best Practices.
- Face-to-face, regular interpersonal interaction and occasional remote meetings are usually required to perform the job.
- Manage a wide variety of projects from renovation to new construction beginning in the initiate phase through closeout. Project experience to include base building, tenant improvements, and amenity spaces.
- Kick-off construction projects, identify stakeholders, and support the client during scope and program development. Provide pricing scenarios as needed to narrow the projects scope.
- Read and understand documents defining projects including leases and abstracts in order to comply with the lease to secure Landlord approvals prior to work and determine responsibility for funding project
- Develop and maintain Master Project Schedules and manage the successful execution of projects so that completion falls within intended timeframes.
- Develop and monitor construction budgets and create cost saving opportunities for the client, tracked through JLLs project management technology.
- Forecast spend on construction projects monthly or as required by the Client.
- Evaluate project risks and prepare mitigation plans.
- Ensure project delivery complies with Heath, Safety and Environmental requirements.
- Ensure project team meets the established timelines and requirements throughout the project lifecycle, effectively tracking actions and following up to ensure completion.
- Manage the design process as well as Architects, Interior Designers, Consultants, Engineers, AHJs, and Commissioning Agents, among others.
- Cultivate and maintain a positive working relationship with all client representatives and service providers operating on the project
- Lead business partner and construction meetings on all projects. Serve as liaison between the client and all other project resources
- Champion and lead development and implementation of innovations, best practices, and standard operating procedures to elevate team, account, and firm performance
- Proactively identifies, reports, and solutions project risks
- Prepare RFPs needed for vendor and contractor services as well as manage the contractor, vendor selection process.
- Serve as liaison between the client, finance team and vendors.
- Collaborate across all JLL platforms including brokerage, property management, facility managers, building engineers, occupancy planners, low voltage managers, and move managers, among others.
- Apply technology to drive change and provide data accuracy for reporting.
- Ensure project closeouts and invoices are completed per Client requirements.
- Champion safety by ensuring JLL guidelines are followed.
- Supervise, train, and evaluate PMs, APMs and PCs on projects
- Foster an ethical environment of accountability, excellence, inclusivity, collaboration, and innovation
- Identify and attract top talent
- Draft case studies and support the development of proposals, presentations and pitches contributing to growing the business

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (SKA)

- 10+ years of practical experience in construction project management.
- Experience in commercial real estate, architecture and construction preferred
- Ability to understand all aspects of construction projects effectively and efficiently including, but not limited to Budgeting, and Scheduling to fully understand project implications based on minimal conceptual information
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to successfully communicate with architects, contractors, clients representatives, and team members
- Highly organized with strong analytical skills, and ability to work in fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with executive level external and internal clients
- Operates with a sense of urgency, quickly responding to Stakeholders
- Able to maintain confidentiality, utilize judgment, and work with minimal supervision
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Scheduling and Budget software, Clarizen and SharePoint
- Ability to work independently, think creatively and analytically, and make quick and sound decisions using data

Core Competencies

- Demonstrate leadership potential, communication skills and relationship management skills with other employees and clients; interact effectively and professionally with vendors, consultants, and clients.
- Understand and lead JLLs project delivery process and demonstrate ability to effectively deliver complex projects and manage project controls and tools; deliver continuous improvement in service quality; build trust and credibility by delivering on commitments, operating with integrity, and delivering outstanding results.
- Additional detail on core competencies of a Senior Project Manager can be found in the

An Achiever

Well expect you to act decisively, think big, and manage your time to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. Most importantly, youll want to contribute to a diverse, supportive, and talented team.

Minimum Required Experience and Education

- A Bachelors degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management.
- (15+) years of relevant experience related to project or construction management.
- Commercial construction project management experience

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