Two positions open now, both in Sydney.
Project Manager and Site Manager, on commercial and industrial work in Sydney. Five years or more in the same role and the same industry. Every application is read by a person and answered within one week, either way.
Project Manager
Sydney, New South Wales · Full time, permanentCarry commercial and industrial projects in Sydney from award to the end of the defects liability period, with the director alongside you rather than above you.Site Manager
Sydney, New South Wales · Full time, permanentRun a Sydney site day to day, and sit in the procurement conversations for your own job, which is not universal.
- States: Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney
- 3
- Maximum wait for an answer on your application, either way
- 1 week
- Project capacity under a single contract
- $20m
- Trade packages tendered to the market, which is how you learn procurement
- Open
Nothing that fits today?
Estimators and contract administrators are always worth a conversation.
We keep applications on file in all three states and we do come back to them, particularly for estimating and contract administration. If you are studying construction management and want site time that is not photocopying, tell us that too. We commit to apprentice and trainee numbers on public sector projects and we would rather meet those people properly than on paper.
The offer, plainly
Breadth, early responsibility, and a director who is contactable.
We are not going to tell you we are a family, or that we are passionate. Here is what the job actually is.
JCGAU is an established commercial and industrial builder working across three states, with a capacity of up to twenty million dollars under a single contract. The way we are structured has a real consequence for your work: there is no department to hand something to.
The person who reads the drawings is usually the person who prices the packages, sits in the tender review, watches the trades arrive on site and closes out the defects. That is demanding, and it is the fastest way we know to become genuinely useful in this industry.
What one person carries on a JCGAU project, shown across the five bands a project passes through: business development, tender and estimating, procurement, site delivery, and commercial and settlement. All five are covered by the same people, so one person sees a project from the first estimate to the final claim. The diagram makes the point that the exposure is the whole job rather than one band of it.
What one person carries here
The five bands of a project
- Business development
- Tender and estimating
- Procurement
- Site delivery
- Commercial and settlement
the stages a project moves through
All five, carried by the same people
- Business development
- Tender and estimating
- Procurement
- Site delivery
- Commercial and settlement
you see all of it, on every project
Breadth is what this shape adds. You will be useful across the whole job much sooner, and that compounds for the rest of your career, whichever part of it you decide to go deep in later.
Who we are looking for
Five roles, and what each actually does here.
- Site manager
- Running the site day to day: programme, trades, safety, quality and the client walking through on a Thursday. On our projects you will also sit in the procurement conversations for your own job, which is not universal.
- Project manager
- Carrying the job commercially and programmatically from award to handover. Claims, variations, the consultant team and the client relationship. You will have the director alongside you rather than above you.
- Contract administrator
- Packages, subcontracts, claims, variations and the written record that makes the rest of it defensible. It is the role that most often turns into a project manager.
- Estimator
- Reading a documented set properly, scoping packages, testing the market and building a number that has to survive delivery. You will see whether your price was right, because you are still on the job when it is built.
- Apprentices, cadets and trainees
- We commit to apprentice and trainee numbers on public projects and we would rather meet them properly than on paper. If you are studying construction management and want site time that is not photocopying, tell us.
There is no department to hand it to. That is the job, and it is the reason people learn quickly here.
What the job gives you, and what it asks
Worth being clear about before you apply.
- Breadth, quicklyYou will touch estimating, procurement, delivery and close-out on the same project, usually within your first year.
- Access to decisionsYou will be in the room when the job is priced and when it is reviewed, not reading the outcome in a handover pack.
- Three states of workAdelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, with genuinely different regulatory paths in each. That is a useful thing to have on a CV.
- A real safety cultureInduction, competency and licence currency run through a controlled digital system, not a folder. Nobody works on our sites without it.
- Being knownThe director knows what you are working on and what you are carrying. That is how the company is structured, not a promise made at interview.
- You learn on live workReal projects with an experienced person alongside you, rather than a rotation programme. It is how everyone here was trained.
- You own what you touchCarrying a package end to end means the estimate, the procurement and the result are all yours. That is the fastest way to become genuinely useful.
- You work across the whole jobBreadth before specialisation. People who want to go deep in one discipline later tend to find this a useful grounding for it.
- You work to a real programmeConstruction has peaks, and we plan for them together rather than pretending they are not coming.
How we hire
Published, because you deserve to know before you apply.
The JCGAU hiring process in five steps with the time each takes. You send a CV and it is read by the director rather than filtered by software. Within a week you get an answer either way. A first conversation lasts about forty five minutes and covers the work rather than your competencies. A second meeting happens on a site or in the office with the people you would work with. References are checked and an offer is made in writing with the pay in it. The diagram shows the whole process runs about three weeks.
How we hire, and how long it takes
You send a CV
read by a person, not a filter
An answer either way
within one week
A conversation
about 45 minutes, about the work
A site or office visit
meet who you would work with
Written offer
with the pay in it
About three weeks end to end. If we are not going ahead you will hear that too, from a person, with a reason.
We have been on the other side of a silent application process and we are not going to run one.
Where to go next
How we work
How we price, procure, administer and report, described as mechanisms you can test.Commercial construction
Offices, retail, hospitality and institutional work, from fitout to new build.Industrial construction
Warehouses, distribution and production facilities, and the fitout inside them.Contact us
One number and one inbox, with a clear answer inside two business days.
Questions
Do I need commercial experience?
For the site and project manager roles, yes. For contract administration, estimating and cadetships, no. What we look for is whether you read carefully and finish things.
Do you take apprentices?
Yes, and we commit to apprentice and trainee numbers on public sector projects. If you are looking for a first year, get in touch even when nothing is advertised.
Will I have to travel between states?
No. We have people on the ground in each state and we hire into the state the work is in. We are not looking for people to live out of a suitcase.
What is the pay?
It is in the written offer, and we will discuss the range at the first conversation rather than at the end. Nobody should go through three meetings to find out a number.
I applied before and heard nothing.
Then we got that wrong, and we would like to know. Everyone who applies now gets an answer inside a week.
Can I visit a site before deciding?
Yes. The second meeting is usually on a site or in the office with the people you would be working alongside, for exactly that reason.
Send us a CV, even if nothing is advertised.
It is read by a person, and you will get an answer within a week either way. Contract administrators and estimators in any of the three states are always worth a conversation.