About this role
Project Based: 6-12 months (depending on the project)
Monday to Saturday work schedule
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of contracts, including monitoring all payments and obligations.
- Collaborate with legal department to ensure contract terms comply with legal requirements and company policies.
- Manage the contract lifecycle, including initiation, analysis, negotiation, monitoring, modification, completion and termination.
- Act as the main contact for customers and suppliers regarding contractual matters.
- Provide contract-related issue resolution, both internally and externally.
- Support and provide advice to the company in all commercial and contractual management matters, primarily in contract and procurement matters.
- Develop and implement procedures for contract management and administration in compliance with company policy.
- Keeps track of important contract dates and milestones.
- Analyze contracts considering corporate guidelines and policies and the interest of project stakeholders
- Handling claims and variation/change orders
- Participate in the negotiation process of various contracts with clients, joint ventures, sub-contractors and suppliers
- Draft contractual correspondences in consultation with PM
- Participate in project reviews, propose, and support mitigation actions as required
- Monitor subcontractors/suppliers obligations to ensure contractual milestones are being met, exercise contractual remedies
- Handle contract close-out obligations, including warranty commencement, closure of financial instruments, closure of subcontracts
- Maintain contract management tools, filings, and systems
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Law, Business Administration, Commerce, or a related discipline. A Masters degree or relevant professional qualification is an advantage.
- Proven experience in contract and commercial management with a minimum of 10 years experience related to engineering, construction, manufacturing, utilities, or other heavy industries.
- Strong understanding of FIDIC contracts.
- Excellent proficiency in English. Must possess excellent drafting skills and strong attention to detail.
- Willingness to travel occasionally to project sites.
- Ability to provide timely and sound expert commercial and contract management advice and work effectively as part of a small, close-knit team in a demanding, fast-paced, multilingual, and multidisciplinary environment.
- Strategic communicator, self-motivated, with a commercial, practical, methodical, detail-oriented, flexible, and dynamic approach.
- Experience and/or formal training in pricing, contract law, contract drafting, contract administration, negotiation of change orders, effective correspondence, planning, and scheduling.
- Thorough knowledge of prime contract administration, office and field procedures, and documentation relating to construction projects.
- Working knowledge of engineering and construction industry contracting practices, applicable government and commercial regulations, procedures, and industry work practices.