Commercial Manager

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About us

Bouygues Construction Australia is part of the Bouygues Construction Group – a global construction and civil engineering company dedicated to sharing innovations to create and deliver some of the world’s most ambitious projects across the building, civil and energy & services markets.   Active in over 80 countries and with annual sales of AUD17bn, Bouygues Construction employs more than 50,000 staff worldwide.  
  
The Australian business is undergoing a period of exponential growth, following a run of successful PPP, D&C and EPC and O&M tenders in the major transport, renewable energy and building sectors. Bouygues is delivering the NorthConnex, Melbourne Metro and WestConnex projects and a number of large scale Solar Farms across Australia, and has recently acquired a building company to deepen its building capability in the market.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support in relation to contracts management to engineering and project staff
• Manage the contractual aspects of tendering, negotiating, awarding and managing all subcontracts and major purchase orders
• Review tender documents and identify contractual and commercial risks and opportunities
• Manage head and subcontract variation and extension of time claims, including strategy, negotiation and liaising with senior management and clients
• Assess subcontractor payment claims against cost-to-complete and process for payment in a timely manner
• Accurately forecast progress claims and project cost-to-complete
• Identify areas of variance from the Project estimate budget & develop recovery plans
• Understand contract requirements and prepare comprehensive subcontract scope of works, to minimise commercial risk
• Liaise with the Operations Manager / General Manager regarding Contract Law or commercial issues, seeking approval for any deviation from the standard company sub-contract document

Requirements

• Extensive experience in the Civil Construction industry
• Knowledge and proven abilities in contract administration, construction contracts, claims and risk management
• Experience in the reporting, reviewing and analysing project financial performance
• Awareness of policy and application of corporate limits of authority and commercial system processes
• Ability to provide leadership and support to estimating and construction teams
• Tertiary qualified in an appropriate Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Engineering Finance, Accounting, Legal or business discipline