Senior Contracts Specialist

Senior Contracts Specialist role at MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) / Offshore Frontier Solutions. MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd is a leading provider of solutions to the Floating Offshore Oil & Gas market for more than 50 years. Being part of MODEC means a challenging career and opportunities to develop globally from Singapore. We are currently based at Metropolis, Buona Vista, Singapore.

If you want to be one of the greatest in the market, this is your opportunity. We are currently looking for talented individuals to join us for the role below.

• Organise and manage logs and files (central database and hard copy filing systems) for easy access.
• Assist the pre client contract award i.e., during pre FEED/FEED and during the proposal phase for seeking proposals from subcontractors on major packages. Post client contract award, preparation of RFQs/RFPs for medium risk contracts, and work on them independently. Ensure prequalification requirements are adhered to when contracting with new subcontractors as well as reverting of existing or expired subcontractors within the MODEC approved list of subcontractors.
• Lead negotiations and manage low to medium risk contracts. Exposure to negotiations and drafting of high risk contracts. Drafting of internal approval sheet and obtaining the various levels of approval for all contracts. Responsible for managing medium risk and/or medium-size contracts and supporting commercial / contracts negotiations.
• Post award subcontract management, drafting and/or review and approval of subcontract notices, amendments, change requests and change orders, warranty claims, 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.
• Handles contracts that are less than USD 10 Million in value in an independent role from bidding to contract award to contract administration as well as its closeout.
• Ability to monitor as well as manage large amounts of data set and interpret the correlations amongst them and discern patterns and relations. Responsibility to run reports and generate commercial data sets on major packages and monitor commercial data on non-major packages.
• Interacts with external stakeholders. Effectively leading engagement opposite contractors for small to medium sized contracts. Develop insights during engagement process to deliver value-addition. Frequent interaction with internal stakeholders. Starting to lead and influence others in a team environment.
• Typically assigned to assist an FPSO Project Contracts Manager or a Corporate Contracts & Commercial Manager. May be assigned to assist with client contract proposals, or other commercial / contracts activities within the MODEC Group. This means that the Position holder will plan and execute tasks with limited oversight and largely be able to work independently, or as directed by FPSO Project Contracts Manager or a Corporate Contracts & Commercial Manager. Reports to the Contracts & Commercial Head of Department; operationally reports to a line Contracts Manager, as assigned.

• Tertiary Graduate / Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant area such as law, QS, engineering, business. Master’s Degree in a relevant subject such as construction law, business administration or economics will be of value. Law and contract law as part of academic studies is preferred.
• Minimum 7-10 years relevant experience (demonstrable under contracts and/or commercial).
• Experience in technical, contractual and commercial disciplines connected with engineering, procurement and construction projects.
• Experience in the offshore oil and gas industry or upstream oil and gas experience working for owner and contractor organisations in a project delivery environment.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Legal

• Oil and Gas