Senior Manager Contract Management

Job Overview: Reporting to the Project Director, the Senior Contracts Manager will be the focal point for all contractual and commercial issues encountered during the pre-award, early works, and execution phases for a large-scale, complex engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) project valued at $1 Billion+. The role will protect contractual entitlement, support profitable execution, and integrate the prime contract with the project’s hybrid commercial model, local execution, modularization, marine facilities, licensors, vendors, subcontractors and country-entry requirements. The project will provide Houston-led delivery with global engineering, procurement and fabrication interfaces and material in-country execution in Argentina. Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably. For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries. Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Support the Project Director to establish or refine a project’s contractual / commercial strategy and ensure continual implementation throughout project execution. During pre-award, review proposed terms, commercial clarifications and qualifications for alignment with the execution strategy, scope, schedule, pricing basis, tax structure, entity strategy and approved risk position. Support the transition from tender/FEED activities to early works and full EPC, including contract handover, assumptions registers, open-item logs, deviations, approvals and preservation of bid entitlements. Prior to project award, prepare and maintain the contract management mobilization schedule, project contract summary, contract management plan, responsibility matrix, communication protocol, notices matrix and deliverables calendar. Ensure lessons learned and approved positions from comparable LNG, NGL and major EPC projects are embedded in project planning. Periodically conduct contractual awareness sessions with project team members to ensure a consistent understanding of contract requirements. Identify critical or sensitive contractual issues and act as a conduit for Legal support to the project when required. Maintain a clear record of obligations, conditions precedent, milestones, payment triggers, review/approval period, access obligations, owner-furnished information, permits, interfaces and relief events. Act as the initial point of contact with the Client for all contractual issues that arise during project execution. Manage all relationships with Contracts Management Stakeholders including Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Subcontracts, Fabrication, Construction, Marine Installation, Hook Up and Commissioning, Consortium or JV Partner, QHSE, Legal, Finance, Business Line Management, EXCOM, and Customer/Client. Establish an effective working relationship with counterpart from Client team to ensure timely resolution of contractual issues. Own allocated registers, notices, correspondence, deliverables and contractual reporting ensuring accuracy and timely closure. Operate the change control process from identification through notification, impact assessment, pricing, negotiation, approval, implementation and close-out. Maintain change, claim, opportunity and risk registers linked to schedule and cost records; challenge unpriced growth and scope creep. Coordinate schedule, productivity, quantity, engineering, procurement, logistics, construction and commissioning inputs required to establish cause, effec…

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