Product Project Officer

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McNab is seeking a Product Project Officer to join the Innovation & Growth team, overseeing the end-to-end product development lifecycle from prototype to market-ready solution. This delivery-focused role thrives in complexity, requiring calm under pressure, methodical problem solving, and strong cross-functional coordination with internal teams, offshore suppliers, and logistics partners to run live trials, troubleshoot issues, and roll out validated products. You should bring experience supporting product development, project coordination, or related fields, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, data, and budgets. Tailor your CV to show end-to-end lifecycle work, quantify outcomes, highlight trial coordination and compliance documentation, and demonstrate clear communication. Apply today at mcnab.net.au/work-with-us.

Innovation at McNab isn’t a buzzword, it’s deliberate, practical, and constantly evolving.

From building our own internal ChatGPT, to exploring robotics on site, to developing proprietary products that drive real productivity, innovation at McNab is focused on delivery. We focus on solutions that move faster, work smarter, and deliver certainty for our teams and clients.

Join our Innovation & Growth team as a Product Project Officer and support the delivery of new products from prototype through to market-ready solutions.

This is a delivery-focused role, suited to someone who thrives in complexity, stays calm under pressure, and enjoys providing technical solutions. You’ll work closely with our Innovation & Growth Project Manager, internal project teams, offshore suppliers, and logistics partners to ensure products are tested, refined, and confidently rolled out into live environments.

This is a newly created role and a great opportunity to be part of a team that is shaping how McNab brings innovative products to market.

About the Role

As Product Project Officer, you’ll oversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle from early prototypes and live trials through to sellable products. You’ll be the connector between people, systems, suppliers, and data, ensuring progress continues even when there are technical challenges.

This role is hands-on, analytical, and operational. It is not a creative product design role, the success comes from execution, structure, and confident problem-solving.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage product development timelines, milestones, and deliverables from prototype through to rollout
• Build rapport and manage relationships with internal teams, offshore suppliers, and logistics partners, ensuring clear communication between all stakeholders
• Coordinate live product trials on site, including preparation, execution, reporting, and feedback
• Troubleshoot technical issues during trials and testing, working through solutions methodically
• Maintain accurate project data, documentation, and reporting across systems
• Track budgets, invoicing, and financial reporting related to product development activities
• Coordinate logistics, freight, and delivery of prototypes and production items
• Liaise across teams to ensure confidence in the product — even when outcomes are still being validated
• Support engineering certification, testing readiness, and compliance documentation

About You

You bring a calm, considered approach to your work and are comfortable operating in environments where things are still being tested or refined. When challenges arise, you don’t rush or gloss over details. You take the time to understand the issue, ask the right questions, and work through practical solutions.

You’re confident communicating product progress and outcomes, even when there’s some uncertainty, and you’re able to build trust with project teams by providing clarity and reassurance. You think beyond individual tasks, taking a systems and process-driven approach to delivery, and you’re comfortable troubleshooting technical or delivery issues without escalating pressure.

You’re motivated by seeing work move from concept through to real-world application and take pride in delivering outcomes that stand up in live environments.

Experience & Skills

• Experience contributing to or supporting the product development lifecycle, from early trials through to delivery
• Backgrounds in project coordination, product development support, supply chain, manufacturing, or construction will be well suited to this role
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with a practical approach to working through issues
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Proven ability to build effective working relationships and manage multiple stakeholders across different teams and locations
• Confidence using project management and reporting tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, considered updates
• Familiarity with engineering, testing, or certification documentation is desirable

About us

McNab is one of the largest privately owned Construction, Development and Property groups in Australia, with turnover now exceeding $1bn each year. Despite our growth and size, we've never lost our small company DNA - which centres around genuine care for our staff, customers and all our stakeholders. Success for us isn't about awards or growth, it's when we deliver so well that our customers are proud to wear a McNab T-Shirt on weekends! 

We genuinely care. We make it easy. We deliver certainty. 

This is our promise - to our clients, and everyone we deal with. Delivering on these three things really, really well is what drives us at McNab. Everything we do, from recruiting and training to performance and promotion, centres around this promise. 

We leverage the entire McNab Group to deliver certainty for our clients at a time of unprecedented uncertainty in the industry. And our approach works. From delivering our own property developments, to manufacturing our own building products, and a plethora of aligned businesses, your career at McNab goes well beyond traditional construction roles.  

Apply today. With a culture of having fun and doing our job really, really well, we want people on our team who share our values, bring new ideas and want to make a difference. Sound like you? Visit mcnab.net.au/work-with-us.