Contract Administrator
We’re currently partnering with multiple established organisations to secure experienced Contract Administrators to join dynamic teams delivering high-value, high-impact projects. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to service and project delivery, ensuring strict commercial compliance, and further developing your expertise in fast-paced environments.
You will support the end-to-end commercial administration, ensuring compliance, value for money, and timely delivery. Working closely with project managers, engineers, and site stakeholders, you will drive strategic contract management and mitigate commercial risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer complex contracts, ensuring full regulatory and contractual compliance.
- Manage complex contractual interfaces between multiple phases.
- Assess, negotiate, and finalise high-value contract variations against technical specifications, and project scope to optimise commercial outcomes and manage costs.
- Evaluate and negotiate Extension of Time (EOT) claims through detailed schedule analysis.
- Proactively identify, escalate, and mitigate commercial and contractual risks including warranty implications to protect overall project performance.
- Prepare, review, and issue contractual notices, formal assessments, and responses in accordance with specific contract clauses.
- Monitor project costs, conduct commercial forecasting, and manage contract registers and cash flow to maintain clear financial visibility.
- Partner cross-functionally with Project Managers, Engineers, and site teams to identify emerging issues and proactively manage their commercial and contractual impacts.
About You
- Demonstrated experience in contract administration or commercial management within a project-based capital works environment.
- Strong understanding of complex contract frameworks, performance monitoring, and managing contract risk.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement across technical and commercial teams.
- High level of attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and documentation skills.
- Willingness to work in an ongoing contract and availability to commence this year.
Why utilise Randstad in your job search?
Randstad has the largest team of dedicated procurement, contracts & supply chain professional recruiters in South Australia. We are on all categories of the state and local government agreements and our size affords us key partnerships or agreements with ASX listed mining, energy, utility, oil and gas, defence, NFP and manufacturing businesses.
We are recruiting multiple opportunities in procurement, category management, contracts management and supply chain.
Apply now or contact your Randstad consultants, Renee Duckworth or Rachel Homer on 0400 363 405 for a confidential discussion.
At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.
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