Contracts Manager - Marine Projects

Job description / Role

We are currently recruiting for a Contracts Manager to work for a leading international group, who specialise in marine construction.
- Support the tender team in analysing the contractual documents.
- Draft appropriate wording for bid qualifications and conditions, together with the legal department.
- Participate in the selection of subcontractors for tender enquiries, and prepare tender enquiries.
- Secure agreement of terms and conditions under guidance and direction of the project manager.
- Raise payment certificates timeously to enable the accounts department to pay by appropriate dates.
- Monitor entitlements to variation instructions and timeous submission of relevant contractual notices.
- Establish and maintain records of resources involved and effects on programme/other activities for recovery of time and/or money arising out of extra works.
- Make timeous requests for extensions of time, and for claims, in accordance with contractual obligations.
- Assist in evaluation and submission of interim applications for payment.
- Assist in presenting the final account after practical project completion.
- Produce claims for acceleration in conjunction with the project manager.

Requirements

- The ideal candidate will be a degree qualified engineer or a chartered quantity surveyor.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Evidence of study of relevant branches of law, standard contracts (FIDIC, NEC3, etc.) and disputes resolution processes.
- Experience in a similar role working on a marine project.
- Willing to work in international projects.

About the Company

SSA Ltd. (Sommerman Skinner Associates) find out the detail to allow you to make qualified judgments about your career and its progression. On the companies that we represent (over 2000 spread across a diverse spectrum of industry) we will be able to inform you of contracts pending, awarded, company growth, opportunity, relative reward and internal prospects. We believe that through spending time and effort front end through interviewing or individual dedication we can offer real advice that will be valued. Our founder is degree qualified with extensive exposure to industry and with a career also behind him in Recruitment Management. Our team is made up of qualified construction professionals. We specialise in both permanent and freelance opportunities to qualified construction professionals.

Disciplines covered include:

Site Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers, Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Managers, Planners, Safety, Purchasers, Estimators and Design Executive.