Title: Senior Project Contracts Administrator

Location: Houston, TX

Type of Role: Full-time, Monday – Thursday, 9 hours; Friday 4 hours.

Potential for hybrid schedule for right candidate (3 onsite, 2 remote)

Job Description:

Assist the Project Director, Managers and Project Contract Manager to analyze and manage contract terms, exploring contractual solutions and alternatives to minimize risks and optimize opportunities. Support the projects in ensuring contractual compliance and consistent contractual strategy. Ensure proper subcontracts follow-up on contractual matters. Provide support and / or guidance to other contract team members.

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Assist in EPCI pre-award contract activities in support of Tendering team, providing lesson learnt from projects in execution and reviewing draft contracts.
• Upon contract award, recover bid contractual summary, any legal analyses and other support documentation prepared during tender phase.
• Perform Initial Contract Review and establish list of main contract critical issues for approval by Project Manager.
• Provide the Project Team with proactive and preemptive analysis of contractual obligations.
• Assist the Project Manager and the Project Contract Manager in identifying and monitoring the main contract risks and developing the contract management execution strategy and assure its implementation throughout the project.
• Ensure external communication procedures are set up in accordance with the main contract obligations. Prepare, manage and file all correspondence during project execution. Ensure timely external and internal reporting as per contract requirements and company standards.
• Develop change order strategy and project procedures for change order process. Ensure the change process is properly followed up, including timely identification, evaluation, preparation, negotiation, monitoring of changes and appropriate claim management actions.
• Ensure that all project specific contracts for goods, services or subcontracts are drafted incorporating relevant contractual obligations and assisting the Project Manager in identifying critical packages (subcontractors and vendors) requiring special monitoring of contract risks.
• Administer and manage in conjunction the Project Team all subcontracts / purchase orders pertaining to ongoing offshore EPC projects.
• Maintain necessary liaison with the project team and other competent Saipem functions, with Financial, Administration, Insurance, Procurement and Risk Management.
• Assist with project closeout and provide collection andsharing of lessonslearned, feedback and return of experience of issues/criticalities encountered during project execution.
• Assist with matters similar or related to the above duties and responsibilities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Law, Business or related.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in offshore EPCI Contract Administration
• Familiar with offshore construction and practices.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to build positive relations at different levels within the organization and with third parties.
• Analytical thinking.
• Self-motivated, able to meet deadlines.
• Team player.