Development Project Manager | Apartments | Move to client-side

W Talent; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

W Talent is seeking a Development Project Manager for apartment projects in Brisbane with a move to client-side responsibilities. You will own commercial aspects like claims, variations, and trade packages, driving projects from concept through completion.

The role sits with a Brisbane commercial builder, expanding into industrial work, and offers the chance to lead feasibility, due diligence, design, approvals, and delivery with a hands-on ownership approach.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in development management or development/project management from concept to completion.
• Strong residential/multi-residential development background in either construction or development roles.
• Comfortable owning detail across all project stages in a small-business environment.

Responsibilities

• Feasibility and acquisition work for apartments and mixed-use projects.
• Manage design process, consultants, and approvals through to outcome.
• Drive development applications, approvals, and council/authority relationships.
• Work with construction contractor to ensure on-program, on-budget delivery of projects.

Job description

Development Project Manager | Apartments | Move to client-side

A Brisbane developer wants a Development Project Manager who actually owns the commercial on the job - claims, variations, trade packages - rather than a sliver of a giant project.

You'll sit with a Brisbane commercial builder doing retail and apartment work, with a push into Industrial. This is an opportunity for someone to move client-side from working at a head contractor.

Day to day that looks like:

• Feasibility and Acquisition
• Build and manage project feasibilities, testing and stress-testing the numbers as projects evolve.
• Support site identification, due diligence and acquisition assessment.
• Planning, Design and Approvals
• Manage the design process and consultant team, including architects, engineers, planners and other specialists.
• Drive development applications and approvals through to outcome, managing council, community and authority relationships.
• Construction and Delivery
• Work hand-in-glove with the Construction Contractor to deliver projects on programme, on budget and to 's quality standard.

This suits:

• Proven experience as a Development Manager or Development/Project Manager taking residential projects from concept right through to completion.
• Ideally from one of two backgrounds: a genuine construction background, or solid apartment / multi-residential development experience. Strength in either will get our attention, and both is a real plus.
• If construction is your background, that might be coming up through trade, site or project management before moving into development, or holding direct responsibility for the build within a development role.
• Formal training or qualifications in construction, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Comfortable in a small-business environment. You own the detail and get involved across every part of a project rather than relying on a layer of direct reports.
• Motivated by building something and growing alongside the business, with the patience and loyalty that a long-term role with an owner-led developer rewards.