Contracts Specialist

TN United Kingdom; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

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Contracts Specialist

Location: Aberdeen, GB

Employment type: Employee

Place of work: Hybrid

Offshore/Onshore: Onshore

TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Job Purpose

Provide the business with contracting expertise, support, and coordination for contracted services activities daily.

Job Description

1. Handle commercial and contractual aspects of tendering, negotiating, awarding, and managing all contracts and major purchase orders. Interface with department managers, project managers, and project engineers to develop scopes.
2. Maintain effective compliance to BMS in accordance with company procedures and systems, including risk and opportunity sensitivities.
3. Arrange all project bonds, guarantees, and insurances as required.
4. Provide commercial and contractual advice to department managers and Project Management Teams (PMT).
5. Coordinate with project managers and engineers for negotiation and execution of all Variation Orders (VO) with contractors.
6. Highlight major commercial or contractual risks or issues to relevant managers and work with them to ensure optimal solutions.
7. Manage project close-out activities, ensuring signature of acceptance, performance feedback, and monitoring of bonds/warranties.
8. Assist contracts team lead in identifying and implementing business improvements.
9. Review and update Procurement Register weekly.
10. Coordinate and deliver department initiatives, such as systems, procedures, and lessons learned.
11. Responsible for tendering, negotiation, and administration of allocated Frame Agreements.
12. Analyze commodity spend information, including market analysis, and develop sourcing strategies.
13. Prepare and expedite signature of internal approval documents, e.g., Contract Commitment Request.
14. Ensure contractor adherence to contract and project administration procedures.
15. Attend weekly/monthly meetings as required.
16. Manage claims.
17. Assist project managers in contractual matters during project duration.
18. Assist the contract holder with supplier management activities, including performance reviews.
19. Attend vessel dry dockings to manage key supplier variations.
20. Perform any other duties as required by the contracts team lead.

Required for this position

• Maintain responsibility and accountability through personal commitment and behavior.
• Comply with HSES requirements and report unsafe acts or conditions.

Required for future development

• Reinforce and strengthen the HSES culture at every opportunity.
• Promote correct HSES behaviors through personal example.
• Act upon health, safety, security, and environmental matters and report issues to management.

You are meant for this job if:

Essential

• Educated to degree level in an appropriate discipline or have Supply Chain education (formal CIPS or equivalent experience).
• Awareness of a commercial environment.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain processes.

Nice to have

• Professional or degree-level qualification in a quantity surveying, business, or legal discipline.
• Proven experience in a subcontract environment.
• Previous experience with marine and vessel projects.

Skills

• Effective communication with professional and technical personnel at all levels.
• Ability to work within and contribute to a motivated and professional Supply Chain team.
• Well organized, self-motivated, persistent, and able to work on own initiative.
• Willing to embrace new ideas and foster their adoption.

Required for future development

• Good presentation skills.
• Ability to master larger, more complex project briefs.

Leadership Competencies

TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters, and we encourage you to add to our culture.

We respect the rights and dignity of those we work with and promote adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles.

Learn more about TechnipFMC and find other open positions on our Career Page.

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Date posted: Aug 8, 2024

Requisition number: 8244