Airswift has been tasked by one of our major Oil and Gas clients to seek a Contracting Management Advisor III to join their team in Spring, TX for a long-term assignment with benefits.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Contracting and Materials Management Strategy Development
- Ensure that the organization properly translates project specific objectives and strategies into appropriate Contracting and
- Provide advice to Project Management on quality issues and support effort to resolve them
- Ensure that the Contracting Strategy Workshops (CSWs): consider appropriate alternatives and objective criteria for evaluation and selection of lead case and fallback options, utilize appropriate broad based market intelligence in assessing contractor interests, capabilities and compensation options and consider partner requirements / constraints
- Support the organization in review and endorsement of proposed contracting strategies
- Ensure that screening / pre-qualification activities engage an appropriately broad contractor community, with the necessary critical questions / evaluations
- Support the organization in review and endorsement of proposed bid slate
- Ensure that bid review plans incorporate best practices and apply the most weight to critical success / failure criteria
- Support the organization in review and endorsement of proposed contract award recommendation
- Ensure that complex administration matters such as incentive plans and major claims resolution receive appropriate scrutiny and strategic / critical thinking prior to implementation
- Support the Senior Contracts Engineering Consultant in mentoring and development of SMEs, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Specialists, and Contracts Engineer (CE) Advisors
- Support the equipping and education of personnel in project contracting
- Serve as a trainer in contracting sponsored courses (Contract Planning, Development and Administration (CPDA), Bid Review, Advanced Contracts Strategy Management (ACSM) )
- Support the Sr. Contracts Engineering Consultant and management in assessing organizational competencies and skill development plans
- Support planning and engagement of contractor executive management as necessary in furthering strategic relationships, development of emerging contractors, and resolution of critical issues
- Engage as necessary with partners to educate on Company contracting processes, MI, and strategy development
- Engage with Company Affiliate contracting professionals to share learnings Organization, Systems, Processes, Procedures
- Support / champion the continuous improvement and incorporation of company's lessons learned
- Support the Sr. Contracts Engineering Consultant and management in assessing that the organization and its systems, processes, procedures are delivering the intended business results
- Experience in contracts engineering / administration / materials management required
- Broad understanding of project execution and contracting principles, theories, and concepts
- Expert in commercial negotiations, contractor management and contract administration
- Management experience on major project
- Must have Contract development and bidding experience for large scale projects $500m+
- Must have EPC Contracting Experience
