Turner & Townsend Schweiz GmbH

Project Manager – HVAC & Infrastructure

📍 Basel

Role and responsibilities

Lead and manage multiple HVAC and infrastructure projects from planning through execution and handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure smooth project delivery. Oversee project budgets, schedules, risks, and documentation. Review and validate proposals, cost estimates, scopes, and contractor performance. Manage change orders, negotiations, claims, and contract administration. Conduct site inspections, monitor progress, and ensure compliance with safety, regulatory, and sustainability requirements. Prepare project reports, governance materials, and ensure transparent communication. Facilitate client and stakeholder meetings in German and English. Support the transition of completed facilities into operations, including close‑out documentation and warranties.

Team / 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 programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, 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 programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Qualifications and Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.

  • 3+ years of project management experience in construction, industrial, or technical environments (pharma/biotech experience a plus).

  • Good understanding of HVAC systems and infrastructure‑related technical topics.

  • Familiarity with Swiss construction standards (e.g., SIA), regulatory frameworks, and procurement processes.

  • Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder‑management skills.

  • Proficiency in spreadsheets, reporting, and presentations.

  • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.

  • Experience leading teams, managing commissions, or supporting business development is an advantage.

  • High integrity and commitment to ethical standards.

  • Fluency in English and German.