Project Manager/Development Manager

Role:
Project Manager/Development Manager

Location: Oakleigh, Melbourne VIC

Type: Full time

About us:

Young Group is a diversified property group with a proud history of delivering top quality projects in leading locations in Melbourne. For over a decade, Young Group brings together the industry's most talented professionals and has successfully delivered $126 m projects, including luxury townhouse, high-end mixed-use apartment projects in leading locations in Melbourne. We are currently in the construction phase of a $40m mixed-use apartment project and a $24m office project and working on solid pipelines with multiple projects underway.

We are seeking a Project Manager/Development Manager to join our high-performing and agile team to assist in projects from acquisition through to completion.

Key responsibilities:

1. Site Acquisition & Feasibility

• Investigate and analyse potential development sites, including market research and opportunity assessment.
• Conduct due diligence, feasibility analysis, and risk assessment.
• Liaise with consultants, authorities, and internal teams to gather technical and planning inputs.

2. Project Initiation & Planning

• Develop overall project plan covering scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and communication.
• Establish Master Program and key milestones.
• Define project delivery strategy, communication matrix, and preliminary budgets.

3. Design, Authority & Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with architects, planners, engineers, and other consultants throughout design and planning stages.
• Prepare and submit planning applications.
• Organize progress meetings (PCG, site meetings) and issue minutes and action items.
• Ensure drawings, instructions, and project documentation are consistently communicated and tracked.

4. Contract, Commercial & Finance

• Assist with contract negotiation and administration for both head contracts and subcontracts.
• Manage variations, extensions of time (EOT), progress claims, and contractual disputes.
• Monitor project costs, cash flow, and budget updates.
• Support project finance, funding coordination, and preparation of information memoranda (IM) for investors.

5. Construction Delivery & Site Coordination

• Break down the Master Program into weekly/daily schedules and monitor execution.
• Conduct regular inspections, and compliance checks.
• Coordinate builders, trades, and subcontractors; resolve sequencing or coordination issues.
• Monitor quality, progress, risks.

6. Handover, Defects & Settlement

• Manage Practical Completion (PC) and Final Completion (FC) processes.
• Oversee defect identification, rectification, and closure.
• Coordinate settlement and liaise with marketing or client teams as needed.

7. Procurement & Supplier Coordination

• Liaise with offshore and local suppliers, including Mandarin-speaking vendors if required.
• Support quality control, materials verification, standard verification and documentation for procurement activities.

8. Reporting & Internal Support

• Prepare budget, cash flow, progress, and risk reports for management and directors.
• Provide ad hoc support and tasks as instructed by directors.
• Collaborate closely with marketing and finance teams as required throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ad hoc works instructed by Directors.

About you:

• Degree qualification with minimum 3 years' experience in the property development industry.

• Experience in multi-level developments preferred.

• A solid understanding of property development and construction processes.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, great attention to detail and a proactive mindset.

To apply:

Please submit your application with your resume to 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.