Contract Administration Specialist, Engineering

**Requisition ID**:264414**
- ** Relocation Authorized**:None**:

- ** Telework Type**:Full-Time Telework**:

- ** Work Location**:Ras Al Khair**

**Company Overview**

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact.
We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values - ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants - integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

**Position Summary**

Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logístical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and it's getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Bechtel serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more.

**Work Location: Ras Al Khair.**

**This position is based in Ras-Al-Khair. You will be required to commute 90 KM on a daily basis (one direction) using the available transportation facility (shuttle bus service)**

**Major Responsibilities**:
Assigned to Engineering department, Ras-Al-Khair, the Contracts Administration Specialist is responsible to administers large moderately complex contracts, maintains a continuing review of the progress of each contract and provides management with information regarding any financial, legal or technical difficulties, prepares change order and amendments, negotiates with contractors and customers to obtain settlement.

EFFECTIVE JOB DUTIES

1. Implement the Division Responsibilities Matrix which records the Project’s agreed assignment of various contract management tasks and the Standard Work Process Procedures applicable to Contract Administration.

2. Administers assigned contracts maintaining a continual review of progress and providing management with information regarding projected financial, schedule or technical difficulties.

3. Coordinates with designated staff on operational activities affecting contractual rights and obligations, contract performance, contract administration and other major matters.

4. Administers moderately complex contract changes by negotiating with customer personnel and obtaining settlement.

5. Represents Bechtel in contractual discussions of moderate complexity.

6. Administers information programs to ensure mutual understanding of contract terms and conditions.

7. Prepares periodic status reports for management.

JOB KNOWLEDGE
- Basic knowledge of contracting regulations, policies and practices.
- Specialized courses or experience in pricing, contract law, negotiations and accounting.
- Skill in communicating effectively, both orally and in writing, with other project functional groups.

**Skills and Qualifications**:
**Essential Technical**:

- University degree in Business, Engineering or related field.
- Minimum 2 years of work experience.
- Familiarity with post award administration of contracts.
- Competency in MS Office suite.

**Essential Behavioral**:

- Developed business writing skills, with strong command of the English and Arabic language.
- Fluency in Arabic (reading/writing/speaking)
- Organized in documenting and record keeping.
- Adaptability to differing cultures and environments.
- Ability to represent department in cross-functional meetings.

**Preferred Technical**:

- Familiarity with lump sum, unit price and cost plus type contracts.
- Familiarity with construction, design, ser