Saipem
Project Contracts Administrator
Saipem, TX, United States
About the Company: Saipem is an advanced technological and engineering platform for designing, constructing and operating complex, safe, and sustainable infrastructures and plants. We are committed to working alongside our customers, transforming their strategies and projects into competitive and sustainable infrastructures, plants, and processes, and accompanying them on the path to energy transition. We want to be the key ingredient in companies' energy transition, their bridge to a sustainable future. We value our projects thanks to everyone's ingenuity and the different cultures of each. We ground them responsibly, keeping the safety of people and the environment at heart. We carry them out with the utmost commitment to building trusting relationships with customers. Always oriented towards technological innovation, Saipem is today committed to supporting its clients on the frontier of the energy transition with increasingly digital assets, technologies, and processes that are oriented towards environmental sustainability. About the Role: In the frame of the EPCI contracts execution phase developed as a program, assist the Project Director / Managers and the Project Contract Manager in analyzing and managing the contract terms, and exploring contractual solutions and alternatives in order to minimize and optimize opportunities. Support the projects in ensuring contractual compliance and a consistent contractual strategy. Ensure proper subcontract follow-up on contractual matters. Provide support and/or guidance to other contract team members. Responsibilities: Assist in EPCI pre-award contract activities in support of the Tendering team, providing lessons learned from projects in execution and reviewing draft contracts. Upon contract award, recover the bid contractual summary, any legal analyses, and other support documentation prepared during the phase. Perform Initial Contract Review and establish a list of main contract critical issues for approval by the Project Manager. Provide the Project Team with proactive and preemptive analysis of contractual obligations. Assist the Project Manager and the Project Contract Manager in identifying and monitoring the main contract risks developing the contract management execution strategy and assure its implementation throughout the project. Ensure external communication procedures are set up by the main contract obligations. Prepare, manage, and file all correspondence during project execution. Ensure timely external and internal reporting as per contract requirements and company standards. Develop change order strategy and project procedures for the change order process. Ensure the change process is properly followed up, including timely identification, evaluation, preparation, negotiation, monitoring of changes, and appropriate claim management actions. Ensure that all project-specific contracts for goods, services, or subcontracts are drafted incorporating relevant contractual obligations and assisting the Project Manager in identifying critical packages (subcontractors and vendors) requiring special monitoring of contract risks. Administer and manage in conjunction with the Project Team all subcontracts/purchase orders pertaining to ongoing offshore EPC projects. Maintain necessary liaison with the project team and other competent Saipem functions, in particular with Financial, Administration, Insurance, Procurement, and Risk Management. Assist with project closeout and provide collection and sharing of lessons learned, feedback, and return of experience of issues/criticalities encountered during project execution. Assist with matters similar or related to the above duties and responsibilities. Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying or Bachelor's Degree in Law, business equivalent Required Skills: Familiar with offshore construction and practices. Good communication and organizational skills. Ability to build positive working relations at different levels within the organization and with third parties. Analytical thinking. Ability to work independently under general guidance. Self-motivated, and able to meet deadlines. Team player. Fluent in English. Preferred Skills: N/A Pay range and compensation package: N/A Equal Opportunity Statement: Include a statement on commitment to diversity and inclusivity.