Senior Contract Administrator

Embelton, the leading Flooring Specialist Subcontractor in the construction industry, is looking to appoint a Senior Contracts Administrator to lead our Melbourne team and strengthen our delivery of supply and installation commercial projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of CAs, providing oversight across all project stages.
• Manage pre‑construction activities, including quantity verification and use of estimating resources.
• Approve set‑outs, detailing, and key project documentation, ensuring technical accuracy.
• Oversee budgets, cost allocations, procurement, forecasting, and monthly financial reporting.
• Manage construction and completion phases, ensuring document control, compliance, and timely submission of variations and claims.
• Finalise projects by reconciling costs, resolving outstanding payments, and ensuring defects and final analyses are completed.
• Work closely with the commercial team — including Site Supervisors, Estimators, Warehouse, and Executive Management — ensuring strong collaboration across all functions and providing clear reporting to management.

Skills and Experience

• Ideally have a minimum of 5 years in commercial construction.
• Experienced in mid-tier or large-scale projects.
• Experience in supply and installation contracts is highly valued.
• Prior leadership and professional team management exposure.
• End-to-End project financial control.
• Pre-construction and procurement capability as well as proven ability to capture claims, variations and close out.
• Intermediate to Advanced level of Excel, and other estimation software.

Employer questions

Your application will include the following questions:

• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?
• How many years' experience do you have as a contracts administrator?
• How many years' experience do you have in the construction industry?