Day-to-day operating brief
What Project Manager (Real Estate) work looks like in practice
A Real Estate Project Manager coordinates refurbishment, fit-out, development or relocation projects for an owner, occupier or investor. Terms should establish project types, governance, consultants, procurement, budget, programme, design information, risks, change control, stakeholder reporting and handover. The role coordinates specialist contributions and decisions; it should not imply architectural, engineering, cost-certification or construction appointments the employee does not actually hold. Property projects affect people already using buildings, making decant, access, noise, dust and continuity part of the brief. The project manager may coordinate surveys, landlord approvals, furniture, technology, move sequencing and stakeholder notices in addition to construction work. Employers should define document platforms, meeting records, contingency ownership and the process for latent conditions. At completion, the employee should reconcile approved scope against delivered work and ensure facilities colleagues receive operating information, training, warranties and a clear defects contact. Live-building projects may also require asbestos information, access permits, safeguarding and fire-route coordination, each confirmed before contractors arrive rather than treated as routine site administration.
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.