Client-Side Project Manager

Gough Recruitment AU

📍 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Full time Business Operations Specialists Posted February 26, 2026

Job Description

About the Role

An opportunity to step into a true client-side Senior Project Manager role, overseeing multiple concurrent projects from feasibility through handover. You’ll be actively driving program discipline, cost control, documentation quality and risk management while coordinating consultants, challenging builder claims, and ensuring outcomes that protect and enhance developer margin.
The culture is hands‑on, commercial and solutions‑focused, with direct access to decision‑makers and a long‑term development mindset.

Duties
  • Lead delivery of construct-only and D&C high‑rise residential projects (15–30+ levels), plus mid‑rise and other assets
  • Own program and cost: interrogate feasibility, protect margin, identify 1–2% savings through design/procurement optimisation
  • Challenge claims: assess and negotiate builder claims, variations and EOTs; ensure meeting minutes are detailed and defensible
  • Coordinate consulta...