Sr. Contracts Administrator

20 نوفمبر، 2022

0 6 2 دقائق

الوصف الوظيفي

1. Role Objective:

Responsible for the administration of contracts, disputes avoidance or resolution and claims preparation.

2. Detailed Roles & Responsibilities:

STRATEGIC

Detailed Roles & Responsibilities:

Coordinates with the operation department in the preparation and adaptation of contractual based practices.
Provide lessons for risk areas to be avoided in future contracts to the general manager and estimation department for implementation in future tenders.

OPERATIONAL

1. Studies the Contract Documents to become thoroughly acquainted with exact contractual requirements.

2. Advises the Site QS on the eligibility to raise a variations and/or claims.

3. Issues all contractual notices on time as per the Conditions of Contract to avoid losing any contractual rights.

4. Supervise the Site QS in the preparation of variations.

5. Drafts all letters of contractual nature and the replies thereto.

6. Cost claims preparation.

7. Supervise the Site Planner and QS in Extension of Time claims preparation.

8. Advises the General Manager/Contracts Manager/Project Manager in case of any anticipated contractual risk in t he course of contracts execution and advise the appropriate methodology to avoid it or deal with it.

9. Makes sure that disputes are avoided from early stage.

10. In case disputes materialized, gets involved with the Project Manager/ Contracts Manager/General Manager in their resolution.

11. Liaises with the Project Manager to make sure that project closing out is done in compliance with the Contract, and that a taking over certificate is obtained to clear our liability for care of the works.

12. Liaises with the Project Manager to make sure that the defects liability certificate/final taking over is obtained after the expiry of the defects liability period to clear our liability for defects.

13. Provides “Lessons Learnt” concentrating on contractual risk items that affected the execution/cost of the project and the way they were dealt with, and others strategies that should have been implemented, in case the deployed strategies proved to be improper.

14. Educates project staff on the fundamentals of contracts.

15. Advises on all addenda to the Contract, settlement agreements, JV agreements, etc.

16. Liaises with the lawyer/arbitrator in case nay dispute was referred to litigation/arbitration.

17. Attends all meetings that might need his contractual expertise.

18. Get acquainted with the applicable law of his country of operation.