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Senior Contracts Administrator Job ID 1003903 Job Type Permanent Full-time Location Aus - Melbourne Categories Legal / Contracts, Commercial / Project Finance / Bid Work, Eligible for Employee Referral Payment
Join our team as a Senior Contracts Administrator – Upstream and drive success on a whole new level. We want you to lead, innovate, and elevate our commercial strategies to new heights, all while enjoying a dynamic and collaborative work environment.
In this role, you will act as a role model for the project's vision and values, while coaching and supervising other project team members to maintain technical competence and consistency of administration.
This role will be accountable for: Managing upstream Head Contract commercial and contractual requirements across two separate Melbourne Airport projects: Naarm Way Elevated Road and Forecourt Stage 2 (Building Package) project and Terminal 1 Security Screening project. Focusing on upstream change management for variations, provisional sums, and extensions of time. Reviewing and compiling change and delay notices and quotations to the Client. Maintaining collaborative relationships with all key internal and external parties. Issues management including dispute avoidance and resolution as required. Managing all formal correspondence to and from the Client and ensuring all contractual obligations are met. Maintaining a live change register and filing of documents, evidence, and correspondence on an online server including the use of Aconex for all correspondence. Being comfortable working at a detailed and strategic level and supporting this with the necessary written, numerical, and verbal skills. Accepting responsibility and accountability for all the directly related commercial activities in relation to the Head Contract. Being innovative and strategic in managing commercial arrangements to achieve win-win scenarios for all parties. Establishing and implementing commercial plans, procedures, and systems to align with the Head Contract requirements. Creating and maintaining a delivery commercial toolkit, including ongoing continuous improvement. Coaching and supervising other project team members to maintain technical competence and consistency of administration within the project team and to check that actions or inactions which could result in trends or constructive modifications are identified and make recommendations on their resolution. Providing support on key project commercial matters as required including but not limited to practical completion, client instructions/directions, programs, and design changes. Minimum requirements for this role are: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Law, Quantity Surveying, or Construction Management. 10 years+ experience in commercial and contract administration gained on construction, engineering, or associated projects. Construction experience on larger scale building and/or civil projects is essential. Great technical construction knowledge and skills to assist formation of change management notices and quotations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to achieve outcomes with a variety of internal and external parties. Excellent influencing and negotiating skills to deliver the right outcomes in a timely manner. Skilled in cost engineering, quantity surveying, planning, risk, estimating, tendering, construction law, contract drafting, administration, and negotiation of contracts and subcontracts including change orders, dispute resolution, and effective correspondence. Experience in dealing with large scale construction projects and operating strategically and commercially with different project disciplines and working directly with internal and external parties. We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds. CPB Contractors is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
Please note: This role is being sourced through CPB Contractors directly and we will not accept applications via external recruitment agencies.
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