JPMorgan Design & Construction – Project Management Team Lead 

United States, Texas, Plano 

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As a Design & Construction – Project Management Team Lead within Global Real Estate, you will provide oversight and be accountable for managing multiple Real Estate Design and Construction projects of varying size and complexity for our corporate offices within the South Central sub-region & will oversee sub-regional project managers.

This position reports to Design and Construction South & West Region Head and works closely with the corresponding Regional Real Estate Managers who leads the South Central sub-region.

Job responsibilities:

• Manage sub-regional team members and coordinate all required activities during the course of the projects through the conceptual planning, programming, engineering, construction, furniture procurement and installation, security systems, IT structured cabling, user occupancy and final project close-out and turnover to JP Morgan Chase facilities in a timely, efficient and cost effective manner.
• Monitor design and construction activities to insure that all phases of the performance of the work is done in accordance with established standards, contractual agreements, and as expeditiously and economically as possible.
• Provides direct support to project managers who manage design and construction projects
• Manages and organizes project workload distribution among existing team to ensure project deadlines are being met
• Review every commitment, invoice and change order generated from the assigned projects and ensuring they meet policy or generated by team members in their sub-region.
• Coordinate with vendor management and sourcing in the management and selection of vendors.
• Coordinate with internal partners (Design, IT, AV, FF&E, etc.)
• Manage detailed construction budgets and schedules, logistics plans, and change management protocols, etc.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree, for Construction, Engineering, Architecture or Business
• 10+ years of work experience, working in Real Estate or Project Management
• Must be familiar with all phases of Real Estate Project Management activities, including, but not limited to, program development, budgeting and estimating, planning and design, scheduling, knowledge of furniture systems, procurement of design and construction vendors, conflict resolution, cost negotiations, project implementation, oversight and project close-out.
• Self-starter who delivers exceptional project management and manages teams to this standard
• Strong proficiency in compiling and presenting written project correspondence to executive leadership
• Experience and knowledge of business processes and procedures, applications, workflow, and planning
• Must possess strong conflict management, communication, organizational and negotiating skills
• Detailed knowledge of business services and systems and implementing corporate policies
• Strong working knowledge of full MS Office suite, with excellent financial modeling/management skills in Excel
• Availability to travel within the region as needed to visit project sites. Ability to rent a car as needed