Senior Project Manager - Client Side

Amida Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amida Recruitment clients are seeking a Senior Project Manager to join a growing boutique PM consultancy. You will lead multiple projects from front-end advisory through to construction delivery, across Commercial, Hospitality, Office, Aged Care and Retail sectors.

Experience with projects up to $50m–$100m+, including some front-end exposure to DAs/SSDs, is preferred. You will manage client relationships, coordinate design development, procurement, and delivery, while overseeing a potential team

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Construction Management, Civil Engineering or similar.
• 5+ years' experience in a client side PM role; head contractor experience would be ideal.
• End-to-end project management skills from concept through to completion.
• Contract Administration experience
• Exposure to program management, managing timelines and critical paths.
• Experience on a variety of building projects; commercial fit-outs advantageous.
• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Project; familiarity with contract forms GC21, AS4000, AS4122 and AS4902.

Responsibilities

• Procurement of design consultants, construction contractors and other specialist consultants.
• Contracts administration and claims management.
• Management of statutory approvals and design development processes.
• Exposure to various construction procurement models and contract types.
• Issues, risk and dispute management.
• Delivery of project management services to client to agreed scope, schedule and fee budget.
• Scope development and tender submissions.
• Develop and maintain strong network and deliver outstanding services.
• Managing regulatory approvals and design coordination.
• Stakeholder management and liaison; operate in a live construction environment.

Skills

Client facing

Stakeholder management

Communication

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Problem solving

End-to-end PM

Program management

MS Office & Project

Education

Tertiary qualification in Construction Management/Civil Engineering

Tools

GC21

AS4000

AS4122

AS4902

Job description

• Growing multi state boutique Project Management consultancy, projects from smaller to $100m+
• Excellent project pipeline across Commercial, Hospitality, Office, Aged Care & Retail sectors
• Great culture, great team with excellent progression opportunities

Running various projects from front end advisory through to construction delivery and handover. Ideally having some experience on new builds up to $50m and front end exposure to DAs and SSDAs. Our client is a growing boutique project management consultancy with an established pipeline of Education, Health, Hospitality, Hotels, Aged Care, Office and Government sectors to name a few. Projects can be fit out / refurbishment as well as new build projects from smaller up to $20m+ and sometimes $100m+. They are now looking for an experiencedSenior Project Manager to join their successful team.

It will be running multiple concurrent projects and potentially overseeing a team of project managers with a high degree of client stakeholder management.

The candidate can come from a head contractor or a client-side background (ideally having some client side experience) with excellent progression opportunities. Candidates ideally will have experience working across a variety of construction projects in different phases of the construction lifecycle from front end through to delivery. Candidates will need to have strong client facing and stakeholder management skillset.

Having some experience on new builds up to $50m as well as some front end exposure to DAs and SSDAs would be ideal.

Reporting to Project Director / Associate Director

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Procurement of design consultants, construction contractors and other specialist consultants
• Contracts administration and claims management
• Management of statutory approval and design development processes
• Exposure to various construction procurement models and contract types
• Issues, risk and dispute management
• Delivery of project management services to your client to agreed scope, schedule and fee budget
• Scope development
• Preparing tender submissions
• Develop and maintain strong network and deliver outstanding services
• Managing regulatory approvals
• Design co-ordination
• Stakeholder management and liaison
• Working in a live environment (the buildings remain open during construction)
• Health and safety
• Program management
• Construction management of project delivery
• Management of site variations and design changes
• Cost management

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in Construction Management, Civil Engineering or similar
• 5+ years' experience in a client side PM role and head contractor experience would also be ideal
• Proven end to end project management skills from concept through to completion
• Contract Administration experience
• Exposure to program management, managing timelines and critical paths
• Experience of end to end project management on a variety of building projects, commercial fit out would be an advantage
• Excellent communication skillset both written and verbal
• High attention to detail and strong analytical skills
• Ability to think on your feet and excellent problem solving skills
• Proficient in MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Project as well as experience with various industry standard contract forms ie; GC21, AS4000, AS4122 and AS4902

This is a permanent full time position providing a great opportunity to work with a successful and growing organisation who offer challenging work and the potential for career progression.

Additional information

• Multi state boutique Project Management consultancy, projects up to $100m+
• Pipeline across Commercial, Hospitality, Office, Aged Care & Retail sectors
• Great culture, great team with excellent progression opportunities