OPF Project Contract Specialist

Brunel; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Brunel is seeking an experienced OPF Project Contract Specialist for a contract role in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The incumbent will drive contract execution, risk assessment, and negotiation for supplier contracts across production facilities and EPCC projects.

The role requires strong collaboration with Contracts, Legal, Finance, and Operations to ensure compliance, manage variances, and finalize agreements for signature.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of contracts management or project execution experience.
• Experience in production facility/EPCC projects preferred.
• Civil engineering background is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with company policies, standards, and contract obligations.
• Review and assess liabilities in subcontracts and supplier contracts to identify risks.
• Lead supplier contract negotiations and back-to-back flow-downs.
• Draft, revise, negotiate, and approve global/strategic supplier contracts.
• Collaborate with Contracts, Legal, Finance, HSE, Sourcing, Procurement, and Operations to address risks.

Skills

Contracts management

Project execution

Negotiation

Contract review

Stakeholder collaboration

EPCC experience

Change orders

SOW knowledge

Education

Civil engineering degree

Job description

Our client, a leading organization in the Oil and Gas sector, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced OPF Project Contract Specialist to join their dynamic team on a contract basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures and promotes compliance with Company policies, standards, procedures, and contractual obligations.
• Closely works with Contracts and/or Legal function to help review and assess the liabilities present in Subcontracts or Supplier Contracts in order to understand contractual risks and lead the supplier T&C negotiations.
• Execute supplier contracts to implement the chosen business strategy of the project effectively, maximizing contractual protection to the Company through client/prime contract back-to-back flow downs.
• Assists on the drafting, revisions, negotiations and approval process of global and/or strategic supplier contracts for the assigned suppliers/packages.
• Collaborate with the Contracts & Legal Department, Finance Department (including Tax), HSE, Sourcing & Procurement, Operations (or any other department/function) as appropriate, to ensure contractual and commercial risks and exposures are clearly identified, analyzed and properly addressed.
• Participate in and contribute in all execution PLG and CME gates where applicable.
• Proposes, drafts, revision, negotiations, approval process and implements agreement templates, terms and conditions, and contracts standards appendices, processes, practices, procedures and guidelines for the assigned suppliers and/or packages.
• Finalize contracts for signature once all the stakeholders and parties are in agreement.
• Draft and review of letters, change orders and other claims not limited to LD, milestone etc. addressed to or received from suppliers/subcontractors.
• Familiar with critical conditions, not limited to e.g changes, delay, suspension and termination
• Negotiates and closes contractual disputes for the assigned package/suppliers, being responsible for negotiation strategies, resolution and follow up in coordination with the Project Contract Manager and the Supply Chain Management teams.
• Review and discuss proposed draft contract with all relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance with tax, HSE, and all other functions involved.
• Benchmark performance and audit suppliers with assistance from key stakeholders.
• Provide contracts guidance and support to Sourcing Specialists.
• Ensures and monitors compliance with all Company policies, standards and procedures, and contractually assumed obligations.
• Contributes to the legal department's knowledge management program by capturing and sharing lessons learned from his/her legal matters and making useful legal content available on the Legal KM Portal.
• Timely upload and manage project contracts through life cycles on the Company processing/repository systems.
• Participate/contribute to the function/business unit's objectives related to supplier contracts.

• >10 years Contracts Management, or Project execution experience, with demonstrable knowledge of construction SOW.
• Prior work experience in Production Facility / EPCC Projects.
• Civil engineering background is an advantage.
• EPCC experience.
• Contract management.
• Variation order management.
• Contract / Legal Review.