Contracts Advisor | Maintenance Contracts (Oil & Gas)
Location: Perth, WA
Industry: Oil & Gas / Energy
Roster: Monday-Friday
A leading energy operator is seeking an experienced Contracts Advisor to manage a portfolio of maintenance contracts supporting critical asset operations. This is a key role focused on contract governance, contractor performance, commercial stewardship, and ensuring maintenance services are delivered safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
About the Role
You will be responsible for the end-to-end management of maintenance contracts, working closely with Maintenance, Supply Chain, Contracting, Operations, Turnarounds, and Site teams. The role requires a commercially astute professional who can build strong contractor relationships, drive performance improvements, and ensure contractual arrangements support operational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the overall performance, governance, and administration of maintenance contracts within your portfolio.
- Develop and implement contract strategies that improve safety, operational performance, contractor productivity, and cost efficiency.
- Drive contractor performance through KPI monitoring, governance reviews, performance incentives, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Facilitate contractor performance meetings, service reviews, and governance forums.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with contractors, asset teams, and key internal stakeholders.
- Ensure contractor compliance with HSE requirements and operational excellence standards.
- Provide commercial and financial stewardship, including cost control, budget tracking, invoice verification, and contract reporting.
- Lead pre-award and post-award contract administration activities, including bid strategy development, tender evaluation, negotiations, approvals, amendments, and governance documentation.
- Support maintenance and turnaround activities by ensuring appropriate commercial arrangements and contractor resources are in place.
- Maintain accurate, auditable, and compliant contract documentation and records.
- Identify opportunities to improve contract outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance contractor performance.
About You
You are a highly organised and commercially focused contracts professional with strong stakeholder engagement capabilities and experience managing maintenance or operational service contracts in complex industrial environments.
Required Experience
- Significant experience in contract management, procurement, or commercial advisory roles within Oil & Gas, Energy, Mining, or Heavy Industry.
- Strong understanding of contract lifecycle management, including tendering, negotiations, contract administration, and governance.
- Proven experience managing contractor performance, KPIs, service delivery, and commercial outcomes.
- Strong financial acumen with experience in budget management, cost control, invoice verification, and contract reporting.
- Ability to effectively influence and engage stakeholders across Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain, Projects, and Site leadership teams.
Key Skills
Must Have
- Strong facilitation skills
- Excellent organisational ability
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Nice to Have
- High emotional intelligence
- Strong relationship-building capabilities
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.
With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.
Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)
If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply directly to this advertisement or send your application via email to caryl.isuan@airswift.com with your updated CV/ resume & contact details. Alternatively, you may contact Caryl at +61 8 6318 1100 for more information