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Senior Design Execution Project Manager

Turner & Townsend

Company websiteturnerandtownsend.com (Turner & Townsend, opens in new tab)

Base salary $150K  to $175K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Chicago, IL

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About this job

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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Design Execution Project Manager to run the design activities related to Hyperscale Data Center construction and other projects for a large technology client. Serves as client's agent, consultant, advisor, and authorized owner's representative through all design phases and all design fields until hand-off to client's construction team. Most of the duties and responsibilities are associated with managing, coordinating, and administrating the client's design consultants used in the design efforts. This position is responsible for taking the program level Plan of Record and localizing the design. Ideal candidate is comfortable facilitating large design coordination meetings with multiple design subject areas, including "page turns" design meetings. etc.

This is a remote position with travel to project sites.

What you’ll do

  • Facilitate planning and kickoff workshops with internal & external stakeholders;
  • Facilitate design reviews in partnership with external partners;
  • Facilitate large scale workshops as necessary;
  • Author scopes of work for contracts and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders;
  • Issue and administer contracts;
  • Define and track deliverables from various parties;
  • Track of cost, schedule, progress and scope;
  • Provide health reporting on cost, schedule, scope and progress;
  • Build optimal design teams from matrixed internal stakeholders and the strategic procurement of external partners;
  • Change management for project scope and design contracts;
  • Facilitate technical decisions in-line with project needs;
  • Coordinate design activities with procurement and construction;
  • Provide clear and open communication with all internal stakeholder and external partners;
  • Ensure the issuance of engineering information to the right party, at the right time, in the right format.

Qualifications

What you’ll need

  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field
  • Professional licensure (PE, NCARB, RA) is strongly preferred or significant professional experience (+10 years) may substitute
  • Prior experience with data center design and/or construction preferred
  • Strong understanding of construction principles and practices
  • Experience in the preparation of project plans, specifications
  • Experience drafting scopes of work
  • Experience of government regulations
  • Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Working understanding of AutoCAD is necessary for drawing reviews / mark-ups

Additional Information

The base salary range for this role is $150K-$175K USD. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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Pay in context

This role's base floor ($150,000) is above 81% of the 74 Program & Project Management roles in Illinois listed on this site; 2 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $128,000; the middle half runs from $113,093 to $141,125.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Turner & Townsend roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Turner & Townsend roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Design Execution Project Manager (this listing)$150K - $175K
Data Center Mechanical Construction Program Manager- Technical MEP projects (Remote)$150K - $175K
Project Manager/ Pre-Construction Manager (Anticipated Opening)$150K - $180K
Senior Project Manager (Corporate TI/Fit Out) – Construction Management$150K - $180K
Associate Director Project Manager - Retail Construction$150K - $180K
Senior Scheduler$150K - $180K
Senior Project Manager - Retail Construction$150K - $180K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Turner & Townsend roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-09-25
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Location as the employer wrote it: Chicago, Illinois, United States

The base salary range for this role is $150K-$175K USD. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate

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