Senior Oil & Gas Contract Engineer

Aldelia; Pau; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aldelia is seeking a Senior Contract Engineer to join a 10-person team overseeing major exploration and production contracts. You will craft strategy for each dossier, lead CFTs, and ensure compliant, timely contract execution in a complex, international setting.

Responsibilities include negotiating, drafting, archiving for audits, and collaborating with technical teams to optimize costs while maintaining quality and deadlines. Strong legal and fiscal acumen is required.

Qualifications

• Strong negotiation and organizational skills for complex international contracts.
• Experience preparing strategy for each dossier and managing procurement governance.
• Ability to finalize negotiations and draft contract documents with accuracy.
• Knowledge of risk assessment and mitigation for contract continuity.
• Collaborate with technical teams to optimize cost, quality and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Prepare strategy for each dossier.
• Prepare and conduct CFTs and obtain necessary authorizations per governance rules.
• Finalize negotiations, draft contracts and present files to responsible entities.
• Archive information and manage documentation for audits and controls.
• Collaborate with technical entities to optimize procurement costs while ensuring quality and deadlines.
• Share information and ensure effective communication at all procurement stages.
• Ensure mastery of the legal and fiscal environment related to CFTs.
• Conduct risk evaluations and establish mitigation plans for continuity.

Skills

Negotiation

Organizational skills

Contract management

Risk assessment

Procurement strategy

Job description

We are looking for a Senoir Contract Engineers M/F to join a team of 10 people responsible for setting up contracts related to the main activities of the Exploration and Production branch of the Company, namely: seismic acquisition, geotechnical and geophysical studies, Drilling Well Equipment and Services, Rig and Marine and Air Logistics.

The position requires excellent organizational and negotiation skills in a complex, international environment and for contracts worth several hundred million dollars (USD).

The actions taken within this team of Contract Engineers must contribute to ensuring the competitiveness, integration of the Company’s environmental and responsible ambition in the agreements that will be signed.

• Prepare strategy for each dossier.
• Prepare and Conduct CFTs(Call For Tenders) and ensure the necessary authorizations are obtained in accordance with the Company’s purchasing governance rules.
• Finalize negotiations, draft associated contracts and ensure that files are presented to the responsible entities and that important contract data is properly transmitted to end users.
• Archive necessary information and ensure effective management of documentation for future audits and controls.
• Collaborate with technical entities to develop effective procurement strategies, optimize costs while maintaining quality and ensuring compliance with deadlines, and identify new opportunities for improving procurement processes for each dossier.
• Share relevant information and ensure effective communication at all stages of the procurement process.
• Ensure good mastery of the legal and fiscal environment associated with CFTs.
• Conduct in-depth evaluations of risks related to contracts and suppliers, establish mitigation plans and alternatives to ensure continuity of operations in the event of unforeseen events.

Aldelia is a global leading human resources company founded in 2005 and specialized in recruitment, outsourcing and payroll management services to blue-chip multinationals and fast-growing SMEs. The group operates in more than 30 countries across all industries and disciplines on four continents.

Our mission is to create a better future for people by delivering compliant, world-class and innovative HR solutions to the companies and communities we serve.

Aldelia is committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in employment and service delivery. With over 150 employees and 1,500 contractors worldwide, our unparalleled pan-African footprint and wealth of local expertise give us a unique advantage to respond to clients’ needs proactively, providing tailor-made and successful recruitment solutions.

As a participant in the United Nations Global Compact, Aldelia Group is committed to aligning strategies and operations with universal human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption principles, and taking actions that advance societal goals.

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