Contract Administrator

Contracts personnel perform a key role in the Project Team. They bring together contractual, commercial and technical knowledge in order to provide contractual and commercial guidance to the project team and the wider organisation.

**Responsibilities**:

- Assist and support line management with organising and maintaining logs and files (both in terms of a central database and hard copy filing systems) in a systematic manner to allow for easy access.
- Post Client contract award, assist in the preparation of pre-qualification activities, and RFQs for subcontracts and department.
- Exposure to drafting of low risk and/or small size contracts. Drafting of internal approval sheet for low risk contracts and obtaining the various levels of approval for all contracts.
- Exposure to subcontract management, drafting and/or review and approval of subcontract notices, amendments, change requests and change orders and formalization of subcontract closeout.
- Establish high quality cooperation and team work. Contribute to a positive work environment. Embraces diversity. Takes the opportunity to build diverse teams and values their varied approaches to work. Collaborates with others to achieve tasks and goals that benefit the organisation. Fosters cooperation and transparency across teams, functions, entities, countries and regions.

**Requirements**:

- MRICS, MCIArb, SCL is an advantage
- Very high level of written and spoken English. Able to draft clear and concise correspondence. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- A high level of comprehension in order to understand and interpret contractual language coupled with an ability to formulate arguments that support the contractual interpretation sought by the company.

**Work Experience**:

- Minimum 3 years relevant experience

**Industry and project Execution Knowledge**:

- A preference for upstream oil and gas experience working for owner and contractor organisations in a project delivery environment.
- Construction contracts experience
- An understanding of technical, commercial, contractual and execution risk in a construction contracts environment and the inter relationships and trade offs between each of these aspects.
- Engineering, procurement, fabrication, offshore construction and installation and commissioning
- Planning and scheduling
- Understand how a project team is organised and the inter relationship between the various project functions and with corporate legal, insurance and finance groups

**Legal and contractual Knowledge**
- Understand the basics of the legal system with a focus on common law jurisdictions
- Understand the law of tort and civil wrongs and the impact on contractual relationships
- Have a detailed knowledge and understanding of contract law
- Have a deep understanding of construction law
- Insurance - CAR
- Bank guarantees and performance bonds
- Charter parties

**Commercial Knowledge**
- Contracting strategy
- Methods of reimbursement - Lump sum, measured work, reimbursable, hybrid
- The tendering process
- Contracts and commercial management experience with a focus on contract changes/variations and claims

**Technical Knowledge**
- Contracts drafting and negotiation experience
- Management of the tendering process
- Contracts and commercial management - Contract changes/variations and claims management - Ability to close out contracts and subcontracts pragmatically
- Subcontractor and vendor management
- An understanding of dispute avoidance and resolution

**Job Type**: Contract
Contract length: 24 months

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday