Subcontractor Manager - Murarrie

The Opportunity
This is TradeVantage’s first Subcontractor Manager role—a foundational hire responsible for onboarding, auditing, and supporting trade contractors across Australia. You will be keeping the network safe, compliant, and reliable for every client business that relies on TradeVantage.
This role is based in our Murarrie  Office with some interstate travel required from time to time. You will be required to visit sites around Queensland so must have a driver’s licence.

Your daily focus will include:

• End-to-End Onboarding: Manage the initial contractor pipeline, ensuring every trade partner meets strict licensing, insurance, and compliance benchmarks before engagement.
• Relationship Management: Act as the primary, trusted point of contact to build strong, lasting partnerships with our trades.
• Training & Engagement: Deliver clear communication and training to keep our contractor network safe, compliant, and highly engaged**.**
• Quality Assurance & Audits: Conduct regular site visits and quality audits, managing contractor performance against agreed KPIs and service levels.
• Compliance Maintenance: Oversee contractor currency—including licensing, insurance, and inductions—within TradeVantage's digital systems.
• Process Optimisation: Continuously improve and scale our onboarding and compliance workflows as the national network grows.
• Leadership Reporting: Provide data-driven insights on network growth, compliance status, and pipeline health directly to leadership.

About Us
TradeVantage is a purpose-built network and compliance platform connecting trade contractors with construction, strata, and property management essential services businesses across Australia. We make it simple for contractors to get qualified, compliant, and job-ready—while helping businesses build a reliable, vetted trade network they can trust.
We are an early-stage, fast-moving business with the backing and stability of an established group already secured. This is a rare chance to join at the ground floor and genuinely shape how we operate as we grow nationally.

About You
We are looking for a self-starter who thrives in dynamic environments and loves building things from scratch. Ideally, you bring:

• Relevant Experience: A background in trade or contractor management, blue-collar recruitment, or health, safety, and compliance (HSE).
• Industry Knowledge: A trade qualification (e.g., plumbing, electrical, carpentry) is highly regarded, though not essential.
• Tech Savvy: Confidence managing compliance systems, databases, digital contractor platforms and intermediate Excel.
• People Skills: Excellent communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building capabilities.
• Execution Focus: Outstanding organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and a changing workload**.**
• Autonomy: Comfort working independently and design systems and processes where none currently exist.
• Mobility: A current, valid driver’s licence and a genuine willingness to travel nationally as required.

Why Join TradeVantage?

• Shape the Future: A genuine, ground-floor opportunity to influence and scale a growing national platform.
• True Autonomy: The freedom to build your own processes, make decisions, and truly make the role your own**.**
• Great Rewards: An attractive salary package plus a company vehicle to support your travel.
• Founding Culture: Work alongside a supportive, ambitious, and close-knit founding team with solid corporate backing.

Please note: The successful candidate must have the right to work in Australia and be prepared to undergo a pre-employment medical examination and criminal background check where required.