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Senior Construction Manager

Turner Townsend

📍Fredericia, DK
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Posted on: May 21, 2025

Job Description

Company Description

Who is Turner & Townsend?

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our purpose:

Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our values:

Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.

Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice

Job Description

Turner and Townsend Denmark are looking for an experienced, site based Senior Construction Manager to work on a major Data Center project. This position plans and conducts activities concerned with the quality assurance and quality control of multiple construction contractors, overseeing work put in place to ensure industrial processes, materials and products by performing the following duties. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Develop and manage a suite of governance, communication and management control systems for the proper conduct and assured delivery of the client’s essential services and works.
  • Review the organisation structures of the parties and recommend alignment measures
  • Interface management between contractors
  • Monitor overall team performance and initiate any required safety or performance improvement measures and methodologies.
  • Monitor and audit compliance with the requirements of the management systems and report as required.
  • Active engagement in the Project Risk Management process to continually identify project risks, actively assign and drive mitigation management activities.
  • Initiate and conduct weekly technical and progress meetings relating to the services and works.
  • Manage any client stage gateway reviews and attainment of conditions precedent to such approvals.
  • Manage the attainment of design stage deliverables to schedule and quality that may be concurrent with any fast track works package procurements and associated permitting and approvals requirements.
  • Conduct and lead site progress reviews on a daily basis to review HSE, logistics and progress against the programme.
  • Produce formal reports on project progress measured against the baseline and milestone dates and agreed project-wide KPI’s.
  • Prepare weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports on project progress for the Employer’s representative, prepare and conduct presentations as required.
  • Manage and administer the relevant contracts affording appropriate protection of the client’s interests.
  • Manage the timely issuance of company invoices and receipts against the agreed contract.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 8 years of experience in construction
  • Bachelors’ Degree or related construction experience.
  • Excellent written, verbal and analytic skills.
  • Self-directed and able to function with ease as part of a team and to effectively collaborate with internal and external resources.
  • Line Management experience 
  • Strong commercial awareness, including Financial management familiarity for project tracking and forecasting.
  • Understanding of contract documents, specifications, project plans, and all other project related documents.
  • Highly motivated self-starter.
  • Ability to multi-task and identify priority activities.
  • Computer skills, including Microsoft 365 or Google Suite, BIM360, MS Project, Bluebeam/Adobe, OneNote, construction project management software.
  • Basic knowledge of construction estimation.
  • Basic knowledge of the financial components that create payment applications, change orders, and other construction financial documents.
  • Possess the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and identify priority activities.

Additional Information

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/

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