Contracts Administrator
On-siteBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Job Summary
Manage commercial control from tender handover through final account, overseeing scope reviews, RFQs, and award recommendations while administering contracts and purchase orders. Assess progress claims and variations against entitlement to prepare payment recommendations, then own budgets, forecasts, and cash flow to generate monthly commercial reports. Call out cost, programme, and contractual risks early to the Project Manager and General Manager rather than letting them surface in reports. Close projects properly by finalizing accounts, retentions, and lessons learned. Brisbane-based with interstate and regional travel as the project pipeline requires.
Required Qualifications
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Quantity Surveying or Project Management
- 3+ years in a similar contracts administration role within building and construction
- Sound grasp of construction procurement, contract administration, commercial risk and cost reporting
- strong numeracy
- written communication
- Confident in Excel
- comfortable managing deadlines across more than one project at a time
- Working knowledge of Australian Standard or design-and-construct contracts
- Brisbane-based
- interstate and regional travel
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in estimating, cost-planning or preconstruction
- modular/prefabricated builds
- regional and remote projects
- Prior use of Procore, Jobpac or equivalent
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