Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate group with core expertise in Investment Management, Development, and Construction. For more than 60 years, we have created thriving places around the globe.
About the role:
With a national delivery capability, Lendlease Construction provides innovative and industry-leading project management, design and construction services driven by sector focused knowledge and experience. We push boundaries and embrace challenges. Our clients come to us when it’s important to handle complexity, drive diversity, offer strategic and long-term value, and to create innovative and sustainable solutions.
Lendlease are currently seeking a Senior Contract Administrator to join and support the delivery of an iconic project in Sydney CBD.
As a Senior Contracts Administrator with Lendlease, you will be responsible for the procurement of major trade packages, administration of subcontracts, assessing variations, and claims, as well as managing monthly forecasting, budget, and cost reporting, while fostering strong relationships with client’s, subcontractors, and suppliers.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage cost and contractual matters to ensure project costs, revenues, claims, variations, and supplier agreements are properly managed.
Foster and maintain strong relationships with clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and consultants.
Maintain a comprehensive working knowledge of both head and sub-contracts.
Manage procurement of major trade packages.
Prepare cost forecasts, monitor financial status, and prepare cash flow statements.
Undertake monthly progress claim reporting, and presentations to internal stakeholders.
Manage project finalisation activities including financial and defects close out, and completion documentation.
To be successful, you will need:
Minimum 7 years’ experience in the Construction industry, working for a main contractor, with experience on commercial, and/or residential projects.
Proven track-record managing contracts, negotiating terms, and ensuring compliance.
Understanding of legal and commercial issues surrounding construction contracts.
Proven ability managing procurement and tender processes.
High-level financial knowledge to manage budgets and monitor costs.
Benefits of working at Lendlease:
Health & Well-being program, including well-being leave to relax and recharge, health assessments, and gym/exercise discounts
Balance your career and personal life with work flexibility, purchase additional annual leave and extensive family support benefits.
3x extra Wellbeing days per year (on top of annual leave).
Large pipeline of project work for career development and growth opportunities
Bonus scheme, Employee Share Acquisition program and options for salary sacrificing.
If you are interested, please submit your application via the link today, or reach out to Ben in the Lendlease Talent Acquisition Team on 0407 463 835 for a confidential discussion today.
At Lendlease we offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equitable treatment and equitable opportunity are just the norm. We remain committed to supporting under-represented groups and providing a wide range of inclusion initiatives, so that everyone is supported to thrive.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in our Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, our Bronze Award with the Australian Workplace Equality Index by Pride in Diversity, and our generous parental leave policy of 26 weeks to any parent regardless of gender.
Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. If you do not meet all the criteria or require adjustments to proceed with your application, we encourage you to reach out for a further discussion.
What We Do
Together we create value through places where communities thrive. Every day, people around the world live, work, shop, play or travel via an asset created by Lendlease. Lendlease is an international company with an Australian heritage, as well as local expertise across the core markets of Australia, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Very few organisations can build cities from scratch, including the infrastructure to connect people, with skills to design, develop, fund, build and manage, but we can. Our projects span key sectors including development, construction, communities and healthcare development. We purposefully seek to hire people who share our values and passion to make a positive impact. Whether big or small, we make a difference and all of us have a part to play in our success. Together we make a difference.
