JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
Parsons’ engineering and construction management staff members create innovative, safe, and sustainable infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait. We deliver rail, transit, road, and highway transportation; water conveyance and wastewater treatment; oil and gas; land development; public; and aviation infrastructure to our customers and communities. Parsons creates interconnected communities and world-class infrastructure.
Principal Objective:
• Responsible for all assigned pre-award contract administration functions.
• Provides technical guidance in the Supply Management Department including contract preparation, evaluation, negotiation and award of public works, operation and maintenance, consulting studies, design and procurement type of contracts.
• Responsible for protecting the Client and Company interests in all contractual matters and ensuring the Client & Government Procurement Laws and policies and procedures are complied with as well as ensuring legal and contractual compliance in all contractual matters.
Major Activities Performed:
• Responsible for all pre-award contracts management and legal advice to the Supply Management Department.
• Provides training, mentoring, legal and contractual guidance within the Supply Management Department regarding legal and contractual activities for the Client.
• Review contract administration work for correctness and policy and procedures compliance.
• Carry out the pre-award activities including pre-award schedule, provide the advertisement for tenders and participate in the pre-award meetings, evaluation and negotiation process, including a functional role as Bid Evaluation Team Lead and Negotiation Team Leader.
• Responsible for the timely preparation of legal and contractual documents such as; RFP and other legal or contractual packages as required.
• Advises on new and revised policies and procedures.
• Participates in selection, training and evaluation of personnel.
• Advises appropriate Manager on contractual matters and is the Principal Advisor at the project level concerning the strategy for and the conduct and recording of contract pre-award negotiations.
• Prepares the notice of award and notice to proceed.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Contract Administration Supervisor.
REQUIREMENTS
• Master Degree in Law or Construction Management/Quantity Surveying field (preferred) with a minimum of 10-years experience in pre-contract formation, negotiation and administration activities which include Operation & Maintenance, Consulting Studies, Design and large value infrastructure type construction contracts. Experience must include a full range of public bidding activities, formulation of Bid Documents, responding to Bidders’ questions, issuing addendums, Bid Evaluation, Cost/oblige Price Analysis, leading meetings and negotiation for awards.
• Or Bachelor Degree in Quantity Surveying (preferred), Construction Management or Law Degree with minimum 12 years of experience in the pre-contracts formation, negotiation and administration activities as described above.
• Must be fluent in English writing, reading and speaking and effectively communicate regarding contract issues.
• Must have excellent writing skills, attention to details and accuracy in work.
• Must also be computer literate and skill use of MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint) for word processing presentation of spreadsheets, use of other analytical software tools.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Parsons is a leader in many diverse markets such as infrastructure, transportation, water, telecommunications, aviation, commercial, environmental, planning, industrial manufacturing, education, healthcare, life sciences and homeland security.
Parsons provides technical and management solutions to federal, regional and local government agencies as well as private industries worldwide.
