Senior Contracts Engineer - VR/29478

Experienced Senior Contracts Engineer required to undertake an initial 12-month contract with our client, a leading international service provider to the energy industry.

As Senior Contracts Engineer, you’ll deliver all required contract review activities to put in place a suite of subcontract agreements for a Decommissioning work-scope in the Asia Pacific region.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Providing benefit of expertise to support Project Managers in presenting the company’s position to suppliers and advise managers on their subcontract rights and obligations.
• Adhering to company procedures and processes and following these principles in all aspects of the role, in so far as they relate to the Contractor.
• Adhering to strict confidentiality of all allocated subcontracts and ITT processes.
• Ensuring any agreed subcontract position is approved in line with the Company Delegation of Authority Matrix.
• Ensuring that where appropriate the sub-contract terms drafted ensure full back-to-back coverage with client contracts.
• Where appropriate liaising with legal, tax, insurance, and compliance to obtain their input into subcontracts.
• Liaising continuously with Technical Teams (Well Engineering and also Logistics), clients where appropriate and sponsor departments.
• Providing supply chain expertise to support business development activities.
• Working with the various company departments to negotiate Master Services Agreement subcontract terms with suppliers, in support of projects, and prepare justification for any significant exceptions for senior management approval.
• Assisting in the resolution of subcontract claims and disputes.

Deliverables:

• Developing project sub/contract strategy papers and plans for designated client well operations.
• Ensuring placement of Tier 1-4 contracts within contracts strategy plan.
• Inputting to and updating the asset solutions subcontracts plan as per any designated project and ensuring any such tendering activity is listed on the FPAL forward work plan.
• Providing project specific input to the annual FPAL performance feedback review plan (or any other plan as advised by company) and carrying out performance feedback reviews in accordance with the plan, on a project basis.
• Raising/Issuing project call off orders via the suite of master service agreement and standalone purchase orders for the procurement of goods, services, equipment, and materials, where appropriate using the company’s Oracle ERP tool.
• Preparing, issuing, and managing Invitation to Tender (ITT) and Request for Quotation (RFQ) packages covering objective, evaluation and award.
• Preparing and issuing to the selected contractors approved contracts and deal with subsequent contract amendments.
• Maintaining and logging all subcontract change authorisations and amendments.