Contract Conformance Specialist

Title: Contract Conformance Specialist IV Location: Middletown, PA or Houston, TX (Preference is for Middletown, PA) Duration:12 Months

171719

$40-$45/hr

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and organized manner.

• Demonstrated excellent human relations and listening skills to deal effectively with all levels of employees and management.

• Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with other departments to achieve goals. Familiarity with best management practices for contracting.

• Ability to support the negotiation of complex contracting issues.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and to perform work with a reasonable level of supervision.

• Ability to communicate and interact effectively in a team environment. Excellent organizational and technical writing skills.

• Ability to effectively prioritize work in a timely manner.

• Demonstrated ability to proactively and effectively solve problems by using analytical skills to take corrective action before they become crises.

• Demonstrated proficiency working with office computer applications such as Microsoft Office. Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate understanding of and compliance with Project Execution contracting strategy.

• Facilitate preparation of contract exhibits, which include scope, specifications, pricing, and special instructions.

• Assist in writing technical contract language describing the scope, pricing, and special instructions for each assigned project.

• Support project management in contractor contract negotiations during the contract bidding and formation phases.

• Coordinate project team in its development of a project specific communication plan.

• Participate and assist with training regarding contract conformance to team and third-party personnel.

• Review documents submitted by contractors for compliance with contract and provide notification to contractors of non-compliance and deviations from baselines, with concurrence of team and project manager.

• Maintain contractor correspondence and documentation logs.

• Prepare and transmit in a timely fashion company generated correspondence, with concurrence of project team functional lead, construction manager and project manager.

• Manage change order process, which includes managing change order log, generating change directives, reviewing contractor requested changes, and preparing change orders for approval.

• Prepare meeting agenda and take & distribute meeting notes for, all contract-related meetings between company and contractor.

• Establish and implement project contract document control and retention system in compliance with company procedures.

Basic/Minimum

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in an engineering, construction, legal, technical or business discipline with a minimum of 4 years of experience in legal, engineering, construction, and/or contract administration or contract conformance of construction related projects, preferably in the gas pipeline industry; or Associates degree with a minimum 7-10 years of experience in legal, engineering, construction, and/or contract administration or contract conformance of construction related projects, preferably in the gas pipeline industry.
• Specific knowledge and experience in contracting process and issues related to energy industry construction projects.
• Fundamental understanding of intent, context, purpose and utilization of all documents typically included in or required by a contract.