Contract Managers
Responsibilities:
- Development and implementation of the Project specific Contract Management procedures, tools, processes and registers, for logging / monitoring events, variation orders, claims, insurance, bonds, warranties, correspondence and notifications.
- Review of tender/contract documents and implement Contract Management systems, procedures and processes.
- Build awareness on contractual rights and obligations of client and Project stakeholders within the Project team and provide comprehensive Contract Management support from Project initiation to closeout.
- Support drafting of contract/ subcontract documents, agreements and contractual notices, memos and correspondence as required.
- Develop negotiation strategies and represents the company in dealings with clients and subcontractors.
- Support the Project team in customer/ vendor meetings and negotiations on contractual matters.
- Ensure that all subcontracts are properly drafted and aligned with main contract terms and performed to the benefit of company.
- Establish, maintain and update a database of insurance policies and securities required under the contracts.
- Oversee contract execution, monitoring deadlines, managing project settlements, and preparing key contractual correspondence.
- Administer all incoming/outgoing correspondences under the contracts and ensure all are responded in accordance with the timescales stipulated in the contract.
- Analyze and implement contract modifications ensuring compliance with contract terms.
- Ensure timely and reliable Contract Management reporting including KPI.
- Support Project risk and opportunity identification, analysis and management from contractual perspective.
- Provide Contract Management support as required in respect of disputes.
- Ensure that extension of time, change orders and claims entitlements are duly pursued to company’s benefit.
Claim Managers
Responsibilities:
- Preserve company’s interests and entitlements under the contract, by implementing effective Change Management, Claims Management and dispute resolution, strategy, procedures and processes.
- Implementation and achievement of the company claims strategies, including claims’ KPIs, to ensure all claims are managed, progressed and resolved in a timely manner.
- Establish the timelines for approval and resolution of changes/variations/claims in accordance with the provisions of the respective contracts.
- Manage all the project related change requests documents including preparation and submittal of all the supporting document/information in accordance with the Change Management processes.
- Review, analyze changes/variations/claims and recommend resolutions with respect to merit and quantum, and raise counter claims and back-charges against the client or subcontractors, where applicable.
- Collaborate with technical functions and legal, in the integrated claim team constituted by technicians, lawyers and planning specialists, to define the correct evaluation and quantification of the time impacts, change orders and claims.
- Collaborate with Project Control function to identify, define and quantify the costs related to change orders and claims.
- Evaluate the opportunity to integrate the subcontractors’ changes and claims toward clients and vice versa.
- Where required support the company in any arbitration or dispute resolution cases.
- Reports on claim status and strategies to Management.
Forensic Planners
Responsibilities:
- Perform analysis of the projects’ schedules, and parameters commonly used in the project planning and control, for the preparation and evaluation of major changes, issued and received, both to and from clients and subcontractors.
- Support project team in the preparation of major change order requests, including delay analysis and disruption analysis.
- Evaluate Extension of Time (EOT) claims, conduct delay impact assessments, and prepare Time Impact Analysis (TIA) as required using leading FSA methodologies.
