Contracts Manager

Job description / Role

- Prepare, in collaboration with Client’s Finance and client’s contracts/procurement managers the Project Budget (this should be inclusive of consultants’ fees, construction costs, contingencies and sundry expenses).
- Receive estimates from Consultants, review and monitor the Project Budget throughout all stages of design and construction.
- Ensure that the Consultants exercise proper cost control throughout all stages of design and construction.
- Monitor value engineering and ensure this is implemented in the design.
- Monitor and supervise the pre qualification of Consultants and Contractors.
- Review the enquiry document, prepared in collaboration with the Design Section, for the purpose of receiving proposals from consultants either in respect of fee competition (tenders) or design competition.
- Attend meetings with the consultants during all stages of design.
- Checking relevant staff C.V’s, and conduct all interviews to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Consultancy Agreement.
- Attending all site progress meetings (not those of a purely technical nature).
- Initiate/coordinate all correspondence relevant to the foregoing duties addressed to/received from the Consultants.
- Monitor and ensure that the consultants instigate and maintain proper claims management system; ensure that pertinent roles in respect of each consultant are clearly identified and identify any flaws in the system to enable decisive action to be taken at an early stage.
- Participate in Consultants’ performance evaluations and contribute towards the relevant performance evaluation reports.
- Review and comment on Pre-qualification Reports prepared by Consultants.
- Review tender clarifications prepared by the Consultants; ensure that Consultants provide proper answers in line with SD-PPD requirements/standards/procedures.
- Review of all Tender Addenda prepared by the Consultants in coordination with the Design Section.
- Review Tender Evaluation/Analysis reports prepared by Consultants.
- Review and comment on results of tender opening, checking validity of Tender Bonds, review and comment on qualifications and exclusions, ensuring compliance with tender conditions.
- Review / Prepare Consultancy Services Agreements.
- Supervise the preparation of Contract Documentation.
- Arrange for the signing and execution of all Contracts / Agreements.
- Manage the process of payments to consultants through Client’s Finance Department.
- Manage the process of reviewing payments to contractors / direct sub-contractors / suppliers.
- Monitor and review valuation of variations and ensure timely completion of Final Accounts and Close-Outs of Projects.
- Monitor and review cash flow forecast on a regular basis and inform client’s Finance accordingly.
- Review Cost Consultants’ proposed deployment schedule.
- Preparing reports and attending meetings as and when requested to provide explanations / clarifications in response to any queries that may be raised by the Internal / External Auditors in respect to any of the duties listed above.

Requirements

- 15 years experience in a major Construction Contracts / Commercial environment to include public sector consulting or contracting experience.
- Requires a high level of competence in Construction contract Documentation and Construction Financial Reporting
- Minimum of 10 years of overall work experience in Contracts Management.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience involving Roads, Infrastructure or similar projects.
- Chartered Quantity Surveyor (FRICS / MRICS) or equivalent.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to define problems collects data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret extensive variety instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

About the Company

The Louis Berger Group is an internationally recognized consulting firm that provides engineering, architecture, program and construction management, environmental planning and science, and economic development services. For nearly 60 years, we have been a devoted and trusted partner to U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies; national, provincial, and local governments; multilateral institutions; and commercial industry. To this diverse client base we bring strategic vision and an entrepreneurial spirit, developing innovative solutions to the worlds most challenging problems.

Around the world, we operate with a commitment to integrity and hold ourselves to the highest standards of ethics, quality, and accountability. From our president to our teams in the field, we share a genuine sense of respect and stewardship for the places where we work and the people whose lives we impact.

The Louis Berger Group is one of 10 firms that make up Berger Group Holdings. With a resource base of 6,000 dedicated employees and affiliate employees in more than 50 countries, we are able to respond to local conditions while providing clients with the technical resources and rapid response capabilities of a leading global organization.