Contracts Manager

Job description / Role

We are currently looking for experienced Contracts Manager to join our team in Qatar for a site-based role.

Responsibilities

- The Contracts Manager will report to either a Commercial Manager or Associate Director.
- Responsible for administering all contracts and purchase orders related to construction activities.
- Ensuring that Contract Administration is exercised to the highest professional standards, that all information is current, and that every member of the team is receiving the information he needs to fulfil their responsibilities.
- Maintaining consistent and adequate procedures.
- Identify deviations in both construction and procurement progress and suggest possible courses of corrective action.
- Checking to ensure the contractors' bonds, guarantees and insurances and their renewal are in place.
- Updating change log.
- Inspecting timely to ascertain that the contractors fulfil their contractual obligations in confirming completion and issue appropriate certificates. Recommending to client with remedial plan if non-compliance is identified.
- Closing out contract and procurement activities per established procedures.
- Providing necessary inputs for risk management.

Requirements

Qualifications

- BSc degree in Contract Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or similar
- 10+ years' post graduate experience
- 3 years of experience working in a similar role in Qatar.
- Ability to relate and interact successfully with a multi-cultural workforce at all levels is essential.
- Must have outstanding communication skills in written and spoken English and be capable of representing the company on contractual issues with the client.
- Must be familiar with FIDIC forms of contracts.
- Must be able to work both independently with a proactive approach and collaboratively as part of a team.
- Should be able to demonstrate the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Must be based in Qatar with NOC.

Rewards & Benefits:

We offer an excellent package which includes:

- A competitive salary
- Transportation allowance
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Annual leave
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Well-Being Programme - 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants;

SNC Lavalin's Faithful+Gould business is one of the world's leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.
Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients' interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning. Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service.

We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting - and then developing - brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It's precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart

About the Company

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.