Job Description

Redpath Partners are working with a leading hospitality group with a large and diverse portfolio of venues across Australia who is seeking an experienced Pre Construction Manager to join its Melbourne-based team.

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- Chance to grow with a well-established and expanding hospitality group.
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- Newly created position client-side.
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With a strong and growing development pipeline, this role offers the opportunity to work client-side across a wide range of refurbishment and new-build hospitality projects with values ranging from $1.5m - $17.5m.

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This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded cost planner, estimator, or quantity surveyor who enjoys working from early concept through to delivery and wants exposure to multiple projects in a fast-paced, design-led environment.

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The Role

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Reporting to senior leaders across Development and Construction Delivery, you will support projects from early feasibility through to detailed design, providing accurate and timely cost planning across a diverse development portfolio. You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and external design teams, helping shape project scope, feasibility and cost certainty across multiple concurrent projects.

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Key Responsibilities

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- Prepare cost plans at concept, schematic and detailed design stages
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- Undertake accurate take-offs from drawings using CostX
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- Interpret project briefs and design information to price works accurately
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- Provide early-stage cost advice prior to market testing
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- Build and maintain an internal cost plan rate library from live and completed projects
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- Assist with tender analysis and pricing reviews
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- Clearly communicate cost plans, assumptions and risks to non-technical stakeholders
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About You

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- 5+ years' experience in cost planning, quantity surveying or estimating
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- Background in builder-side estimating, consultancy QS or client-side cost management
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- Strong capability working with early-stage or incomplete information
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- Commercially minded with a practical, solutions-focused approach
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- Confident communicator comfortable engaging with a range of stakeholders
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- Highly organised and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
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- Experience in hospitality, retail or commercial fit-out projects is advantageous but not essential.
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Qualifications

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- Degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or similar preferred
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- Equivalent industry experience highly regarded
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- AIQS or RICS membership desirable but not essential
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📌 Estimating Manager (Victoria)
🏢 Redpath Partners
📍 Victoria