Lead Contracts Engineer

Lycopodium Limited; Perth; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Discount platform

Career development

Mentoring by industry leaders

Job summary

Lycopodium Limited in Perth is seeking an experienced Lead Contracts Engineer to join our team. The role focuses on administering, maintaining and executing contracts and consultancy service agreements for Australian projects.

Reporting to the Project Manager, you will develop contract terms, conduct commercial evaluations, create scopes of work and ensure compliance with Lycopodium policies and procedures. The position offers exposure to large-scale EPCM projects.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in administrating and maintaining contracts at pre & post-award stage; SMP, earthworks, concrete and other civil works.
• Exceptional ability to multitask and work at pace in a complex EPCM sector.
• Demonstrate a superior understanding and awareness of contract management, standard and model terms and conditions.
• Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary.
• Effective communication with colleagues, subordinates, clients and contractors to meet targets.

Responsibilities

• Developing and updating suitable contract terms and conditions as well as contract structures to suit each specific scope of work.
• Conducting detailed commercial evaluations and analysis, ensuring the findings are summarised or presented in formats used by Lycopodium that are clear and understandable for their intended audience.
• Creating detailed scopes of work from a variety of stakeholder inputs within agreed time frames.
• Ensuring all tender and contract documents are prepared and reviewed to ensure they contain / include the latest available information and are prepared to a high standard of professionalism with compliance audits occurring once per month.
• Ensuring all responses to Request for Tender (RFT) are evaluated in an accurate and transparent fashion.
• Maintaining and executing all contracts and consultancy service agreements for the designated project in accordance with Lycopodium policies and procedures.
• Provision of contract administration and commercial support services to the project team.
• Ensuring the projects established and agreed contract terms and conditions are adhered to for site works.
• Maintaining compliance with the project contracting and contract management plans, schedules, budgets and ensure that project and contract deliverables are achieved within the nominated timeframes and to a consistently high standard.

Skills

Contract management

Multitasking

Communication

Education

Law / Commerce / Engineering / Construction management

Job description

With offices in Australia, Africa, Canada and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

As we continue through an exciting period of growth, Lycopodium is currently recruiting for an experienced Lead Contracts Engineer to join our Perth based team.

Reporting to the Project Manager, this role will be responsible for administering, maintaining and executing the contracts and consultancy service agreements for our Australian projects.

The tasks you'll perform

• Developing and updating suitable contract terms and conditions as well as contract structures to suit each specific scope of work.
• Conducting detailed commercial evaluations and analysis, ensuring the findings are summarised or presented in formats used by Lycopodium that are clear and understandable for their intended audience.
• Creating detailed scopes of work from a variety of stakeholder inputs within agreed time frames.
• Ensuring all tender and contract documents are prepared and reviewed to ensure they contain / include the latest available information and are prepared to a high standard of professionalism with compliance audits occurring once per month.
• Ensuring all responses to Request for Tender (RFT) are evaluated in an accurate and transparent fashion.
• Maintaining and executing all contracts and consultancy service agreements for the designated project in accordance with Lycopodium policies and procedures.
• Provision of contract administration and commercial support services to the project team.
• Ensuring the projects established and agreed contract terms and conditions are adhered to for site works.
• Maintaining compliance with the project contracting and contract management plans, schedules, budgets and ensure that project and contract deliverables are achieved within the nominated timeframes and to a consistently high standard.

The expertise you'll bring

• Qualification in law, commerce, engineering, construction management or related areas.
• 7+ years experience in administrating and maintaining contracts at pre & post-award stage; SMP, earthworks, concrete and other civil works.
• Exceptional ability to multitask and work at pace in a complex and challenging EPCM sector.
• Demonstrate a superior understanding and awareness of contract management, standard and model terms and conditions.
• Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary.
• Effective communication with colleagues, subordinates, clients and contractors to meet targets.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That's why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide access to a benefits, rewards and recognition platform that also offers great discounts to hundreds of retailers in Australia.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.