Project Manager

Who are you?

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the successful delivery of workplace, real estate, and capital projects within a leading financial services environment.

Reporting to the Project Delivery leadership team, you will play a key role in managing complex projects from initiation through close-out, ensuring delivery excellence across scope, schedule, budget, and stakeholder expectations. This is a hands‑on role requiring strong project leadership, exceptional organization, and the ability to navigate multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

As a trusted project leader, you will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive project execution, maintain governance standards, manage project risks, and measure value realization. Your ability to align project outcomes with business objectives while delivering an exceptional end‑user experience will be critical to success.

You will support projects within ATB Financial's People Places & Spaces (PP&S) team, the group responsible for real estate strategy, workplace experience, design, construction, facilities management, and the ongoing transformation of both corporate and client‑facing environments across Alberta.

Leveraging Turner & Townsend's industry‑leading project controls, governance practices, and delivery expertise, you will help ensure projects are completed efficiently, effectively, and in alignment with organizational priorities.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Project Leadership & Delivery: Lead complex projects through the full project lifecycle, from planning and initiation through execution, launch, and close‑out, ensuring successful delivery against established objectives.
• Scope, Schedule & Budget Management: Develop, manage, and monitor project scope, schedules, budgets, and resource requirements, ensuring projects remain aligned with approved parameters.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Provide clear, timely, and consistent communication to project stakeholders, including project status, risks, key decisions, milestones, and change impacts.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with business units, consultants, vendors, and internal teams to ensure coordinated execution and successful project outcomes.
• Project Governance & Documentation: Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, schedules, budgets, risk logs, status reports, decision registers, and close‑out records.
• Risk & Project Health Management: Monitor project performance, proactively identifying risks, issues, and dependencies while developing mitigation strategies to maintain project momentum.
• Value Realization & Reporting: Track and report on project outcomes, benefits, and value realization, ensuring alignment with strategic and operational objectives.
• Change Impact Assessment: Evaluate project impacts on people, processes, and operations, supporting smooth implementation and successful transition management.
• Project Close‑Out: Lead project handover and close‑out activities, ensuring all deliverables are completed, documented, and transitioned effectively to operational stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3‑5+ years of project management experience, with demonstrated success delivering complex projects from initiation through close‑out. Previous experience managing end‑to‑end projects within the construction, real estate, workplace, or capital projects environment is considered a strong asset.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, Construction Management, Real Estate, or a related field.
  • PMP certification is considered a strong asset.
• Project Management Tools: Experience with Smartsheet or comparable project management platforms.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency with Google Workspace (or similar productivity tools) and the ability to quickly learn new systems and technologies.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams, manage competing stakeholder interests, and drive projects to successful outcomes.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with expertise in project reporting, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement.

Additional Information

What's in it for you...

• 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)
• Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program
• RRSP option with company matching
• Annual learning and development budget
• Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career de