Job Title
Senior Project Manager
Job Description Summary
This role is responsible for every aspect of the project, including leading a team capable of meeting or exceeding client expectations for their vision. Successful project managers assemble and manage these individuals to make a fine-tuned project machine.
Job Description
- Leadership & Accountability: Full ownership of project delivery—scope, schedule, budget, and quality. Acts as the strategic lead and decision-maker across all phases of the project lifecycle.
- Execution Oversight: Manages high-rise construction projects (minimum G+12 floors), ensuring adherence to timelines, cost targets, and safety standards.
- Design Coordination: Collaborates with architects, structural consultants, and MEP teams to finalize constructability-driven design strategies.
- Vendor & Subcontractor Management: Oversees procurement, contract execution, and performance of all external partners.
- QA/QC & Compliance: Implements rigorous quality assurance protocols, statutory compliance, and safety audits aligned with Cushman & Wakefield standards.
- Technology & Tools: Uses MS Project, Primavera, and BIM tools for scheduling, reporting, and design coordination.
- Site Supervision: Conducts regular inspections, especially for Mivan shuttering and aluminum formwork systems, ensuring precision and safety.
- Commercial Control: Coordinates with procurement and finance teams for cost control, billing validation, and change order management.
- Client Engagement: Leads client meetings, progress reviews, and stakeholder reporting with clarity and strategic foresight.
- Strategic Responsibilities
- Project Strategy: Develops and implements execution and control strategies including procurement plans, staffing models, and contract frameworks.
- Design Review Leadership: Chairs design review meetings to align project goals with client expectations and business strategy.
- Stakeholder Management: Interfaces with internal and external teams—Client, Design, Quality, Audit, CRM, FM, and Marketing—to resolve escalations and ensure smooth coordination.
- Construction Methodology Review: Evaluates feasibility, cost/time alternatives, and resource optimization for all construction methods.
- Risk Management: Identifies project risks, formulates mitigation plans, and ensures stakeholder sign-off and implementation.
- Policy Implementation: Enforces all Cushman & Wakefield policies at the site, including safety, ethics, and operational SOPs.
- Project Closeout: Ensures documentation, lessons learned, and contractual compliance are completed and archived.
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in construction project management, with at least one G+12 floor project completed.
- Strong understanding of Mivan construction techniques, aluminum formwork systems, and high-rise safety protocols.
- Proficiency in project planning software (Primavera, MS Project).
- Expertise in base build and fit-out coordination.
- Strong communication and leadership abilities.
- Experience in residential towers, commercial complexes, or mixed-use developments.
- Familiarity with local building codes and statutory approvals in Tamil Nadu.
PMP or equivalent certification preferred.
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;
- Being part of a growing global company;
- Career development and a promote from within culture;
- An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.
We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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