Contracts Administrator

at  Aecon Group

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• Review commercial agreements, including requests for quotation, requests for proposals, confidentiality agreements, pre-bid agreements, purchase orders, subcontracts, contracts, consortium agreements, joint venture agreements and, having regard for their practical application and inherent risks, make recommendations to operating staff during the estimating, pre-award, construction, and post construction phases.
• Work closely with the Project Manager and Project Team.
• Liaise with the subcontract formation team on commercial issues and coordinate handover of a completed subcontract package at the time of award.
• Draft or amend contracts and commercial agreements.
• Prepare project specific contract administration manuals.
• Creation of project specific contract administration tools, policies, and procedures.
• Generally, assist and support the Contracts Manager or a member of the Legal/Commercial group.
• Assist project staff with the interpretation and practical application of contract documents. As well as identification, documentation, and quantification of changes in the work and claims.
• Liaise with and provide guidance on contract matters to the Supervisor, other senior managers, and other team members.
• Facilitate payments to the sub-contractors, including processing and verifying the progress billings and back charges.
• Work with other teams on the project to prepare monthly accruals used to determine project percentage of completion and estimated final cost for financial reporting purposes.
• Timely review of cost reporting.
• Document significant events of the projects.
• Monitor and maintain project change order log.
• Responsible for ensuring the contracts team is aware of any due dates.
• Coordinate and prepare claims as required.
• Draft notice of change to client or any events requiring notice as required.
• Manage performance security for subcontractors (performance bonding, letters of credit and subcontractor parental guarantees).
• Complete financial review of the selected subcontractors prior to contract awards.
• Act as the main point of contact for all contract communication with the subcontractors.
• Coordinate meetings with the subcontractors as required.
• Coordinate subcontract deliverables of other functions (e.g. Construction, Project Controls, Finance, etc.)
• Meet with project team on site and provide commercial updates to the project team (Project Controls and Finance).
• Obtain the assistance of the appropriate Legal department, as required.
• Transmit documents across to the client as required.
• Asist with preparing reports with the Contract Manager.
• Set and measure vendors’ KPI’s and performance management (using score cards).
• Conduct quality control on all documents that are delivered to the client.
• Prepare finalized packages for management signature prior to transmittal.
• Update change order and commercial action log.
• Provide updates reflecting contract changes and commercial correspondence to support weekly and monthly project report.
• Assist in documenting and tracking all changes to commercial document templates and circulate to affected parties.
• Other duties as assigned.