Contracts Engineer

Job description / Role

Purpose: Create the contracts dossier, Develop a clear definition of contractual responsibilities and discuss the agenda including:
- Validation of contracts strategy
- Negotiation and analysis of commercial bids
- Participation in recommendations to award
- Adapt standard and template documents to local conditions
- Provide professional advice and guidance to all contract owners/entities with respect to contractual matters
- Liaise with C&P Methods/planning/market and line Manager for reporting and statistics matters
- Keep informed or best practices in contracts procedures in other entities and affiliates for improvement of contracts practices in the affiliate
- Use frame agreements FALTC

The job holder executes the following contracts activities
- Prepare and maintain an up-to-date list of qualified contractors/suppliers/potential tenders/contracts with updated information in order to perform market studies; analyze and assess all possible answers from the market

Participate to the validation of the contracts strategy through:
- Arranging and attending Contracts Committee Meetings
- Pre-qualifying bidders
- Defining target prices
- Defining criteria for evaluation
- Establish CFT commercial documents
- Prepare and send out the dossiers of pre-consultation and Standard or Complex invitations to bid
- Verify the alignment with HSE clauses, Company rules, Procedures, Instructions and applicable legislation when issuing all technical contracts and when drafting contractual and commercial terms and conditions
- Verify the Terms & Conditions (standard, general and financial)
- Compose contracts from standard contracts or without standard contract and create outline agreements
- Conduct the Terms & Conditions bid analysis and negotiation
- Conduct the commercial bid analysis and negotiation thereby creating a clear definition of responsibilities and documents together with the DUET
- Participate in recommendations to award through contracts Committees or DOA award validation and tracing of tender documents
- Participate in the signing of formal document after approval from authorities and partners and clarification of rights and obligations of both signing parties according to DOA
- Input all contracts/suppliers data/documents in the contracts and suppliers database
- Handover contracts to the contract Métier Partner
- Prepare files for the settlement of law suits in relation with the juridical, insurance and financial department
- Monitor on-going contracts status, participate to claims, amendments and contract renewal discussions and Review supplier’s performance with the Duet

Requirements

Works permanently in an interdisciplinary contract environments where he/she establishes contractual documents and participates to the optimization of the economic performance of the operations conducted in the subsidiaries by establishing, monitoring and updating the subsidiary’s contracts of various services to be, at all times in line with standards and requirements

- To produce contractual documents according to company procedure and ethics
- To provide a quality, cost-effective and time efficient contracts service to metier partners
- To participate in the optimization of the economic performance of the operations conducted in the affiliates

About the Company

Orion Engineering was established in 1987 to supply Engineering personnel to the Oil and Gas Industry. Since then the company has grown significantly and presently has in excess of 4000+ personnel on secondment worldwide.

Our blue chip client list includes major oil companies such as Shell, BP, Chevron Texaco and Exxon Mobil and major engineering contractors and suppliers such as Technip, Wood Group. Talisman and Wormald Tyco.

The division has offices at various strategic locations throughout the world including London, Houston, Aberdeen, Lagos, Doha, Singapore and 5 offices throughout Kazakhstan.