Contract: Capital Project Contracts Administrator / Houston

Capital Project Contracts Administrator

 

Job Type: Contract – Minimum of 12 months

Location: Houston, TX.

Travel: Yes

Schedule: Standard 5x8

 

Summary:

The Capital Project Contracts Administrator is primarily responsible for ensuring Owner & Contractor compliance with contract obligations and deliverables for capital projects.

 

Job Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Ensure the Owners Project team is following the contract.
• Ensure the Contractor is delivering on their contract obligations.
• Report and take action when there are deviations from the contract obligations and deliverables.
• Coordinate contract closeout process.
• Liaise between Client Legal and the Contracts Manager as necessary.
• Promote excellent working relationships with internal customers, suppliers, and other supporting organizations.
• Ensure compliance with Client supplier qualification, safety, and technical review process.
• Support Contracts Manager on preparing RFP’s, bid clarification process, bid evaluations, and related contract formation activities.
• Negotiate contracts in conjunction with Client Contracts Manager and Client internal customers as needed.
• Compose contract summary / deliverables checklist as necessary
• Take sufficient steps to minimize project claims due to contract non-compliance
• Ensure compliance with the company’s work health and safety policies, standards, and procedures.
• Prepare monthly project reports and make presentations at meetings.
• Assess and support negotiations and manage of contractual changes and resolve disputes and/or claims with Contractors. Assist in preparation of contract amendments.
• Ensure that contract correspondence, documentation, and records are being prepared accurately and are current.
• Implement and communicate a contract deliverables report that clearly indicates the performance level of the contractor to the contract obligations and deliverables.
• Confirm Contract deliverable(s) are met and acceptable with Client internal customers.
• Prepare, execute, and archive contract closeout documents as required. Prepare lessons learned summary for each contract. 

 

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of project contract administration experience within an Owner organization or EPC organization working directly on contracts for capital projects with TIC of more than $10 MM is highly preferred.
• 5+ years of oil, gas, or petrochemical related industry experience and knowledge related to construction or services contracting is preferred.
• Experience in negotiating / administering commercial terms for multi-million dollar construction contracts.
• Demonstrated experience in managing project contract administrative processes “cradle to grave” for capital projects.

 

Critical Competencies/Behaviors:

• Contracting Professional able to work as a valued team member within the Project Team
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills
• Problem solving
• MS Excel. MS Word
• SAP, Ariba preferred
• Strong bias to action and sense of urgency
• Organized and detail orientated