Project Security Administrator

About the role

With a national delivery capability, Lendlease Construction provides innovative and industry-leading project management, design and construction services driven by sector focused knowledge and experience. We push boundaries and embrace challenges. Our clients come to us when it's important to handle complexity, drive diversity, offer strategic and long-term value, and to create innovative and sustainable solutions.

The Project Security Administrator is the administrative backbone of the project security function. This role manages the personnel security lifecycle - from pre-employment background checks through vetting, clearance management, and site access credentialing.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all personnel security activities for the project, including security clearances, site access approvals, onboarding, offboarding, and personnel security compliance.
• Maintain personnel security registers, oversee compliance with Defence, client, and organisational security requirements.
• Review contractor security documentation, monitor subcontractor compliance, and manage visitor access processes.
• Deliver site administration services, coordinate meetings and onboarding activities, manage office and PPE requirements, and support the broader project team.
• Maintain security incident logs and assist with investigations.

About You

• The ability to obtain and hold a Baseline Security Clearance and potentially higher.
• 3+ years of experience in administrative role preferably within a construction or defence environment.
• Proven ability to build relationships and work effectively with employees, subcontractors, clients, and external agencies.
• Highly developed attention to detail with experience maintaining registers, processing documentation, coordinating onboarding activities, and producing accurate reports.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide guidance.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite.

About us

Health & Well-being program, including well-being leave to relax and recharge, health assessments, and gym/exercise discounts.

Balance your career and personal life with work flexibility, purchase additional annual leave and extensive family support benefits.

26 weeks paid parental leave.

3x extra Wellbeing days per year (on top of annual leave).

Large pipeline of project work for career development and growth opportunities.

Bonus scheme, Employee Share Acquisition program and options for salary sacrificing.

Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. If you do not meet all the criteria or require adjustments to proceed with your application, we encourage you to reach out for a further discussion.

Lendlease is Australia's leading real estate business with an international investments platform. We're city shapers, asset creators and trusted partners. Our deep property experience and bold thinking delivers innovative real estate and investment solutions. Very few organisations can build cities from scratch, including the infrastructure to connect people, with skills to design, develop, fund, build and manage, but we can. We purposefully seek to hire people who share our values and passion to make a positive impact. Whether big or small, we make a difference and all of us have a part to play in our success. Together we make a difference.