Contracts Manager

CPB Contractors is Australia’s leading contractor and the largest infrastructure construction company in our region. Part of the CIMIC Group, we are proud to be constructing Australia’s future and do so collaboratively with our partners and clients.

We hire for careers, not project life. CPB Contractors has more than 50 major infrastructure projects in delivery, across all key sectors of the construction industry, including roads and bridges, rail, tunnelling, defence, airports, buildings and resources, providing you with career opportunities for years to come.

The Project

With an exciting pipeline of projects on the horizon, CPB Contractors is recruiting an experienced Contracts Manager for our newly awarded $600M project located in Townsville, QLD.

Your opportunity

The Contracts Manager is accountable for ensuring financial and operational commitments are met or exceeded. Also ensuring that opportunities for the strategic development of the contract are exploited to deliver increased turnover and profitability and supporting the project decision making.  

What will a day in this role look like:

• Identifying, evaluating and submitting all potential variations/claims
• Supervising the preparation of variations, claims, EOT’s as needed on the project
• Addressing contractual matters with client/consultants/subcontractors/suppliers and negotiating variations, claims, EOT and mitigating any contractual disputes
• Supervise the contract administration team to ensure all contracts agreements are administered in accordance with the conditions and provisions of the contract agreements (including correspondence, variations, claims and payments).
• Inclusion of back-to-back main contract conditions
• Drafting and insertion of relevant special conditions
• Inclusion of all necessary technical data, drawings and specifications
• Inclusion of appropriate time / schedule information and provisions
• Manage the end of month accruals process for subcontractors (and major suppliers)

Our minimum requirements for this role are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying / Construction Management / Economics / Law / Business
• Demonstrated experience in project commercial, contract and/or cost management background working with the construction industry
• Commercial and business acumen
• Negotiation and influencing skills

This role is locally based and for those outside of Townsville, relocation is required. LAFHA (for eligible individuals) and relocation allowance will be made available to the successful applicant.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, Veterans and Active Defence Reserve members, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds. CPB Contractors is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We’re always looking for ways to make CPB Contractors a more rewarding place to work and offer a unique set of benefits, including:

• A rewarding career where we support your development, training and promote from within.
• Opportunities across other major projects in the Townsville region along with other construction sectors nationally so that there is always an opportunity suitable for the next stage in your career.
• Competitive remuneration and excellent benefits including a health and wellbeing program, discount portal and company-funded salary continuance insurance.
• Flexible work arrangements and a culture that values diversity and innovation.

Please note: This role is being sourced through CPB Contractors directly and we will not accept applications via external recruitment agencies.

How to apply

Applications close

23 Sep 2026 E. Australia Standard Time