Senior Contracts Specialist

offshore frontier solutions pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Modec Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd seeks a Senior Contracts Specialist to manage medium risk contracts and assist with negotiations. The role requires a strong legal and commercial background, with at least 7-10 years of relevant experience in the offshore oil & gas sector.

Responsibilities include preparing RFQs/RFPs, managing subcontractors, and ensuring compliance with prequalification requirements. The ideal candidate will enhance teamwork and cooperation while managing significant contractual documentation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7-10 years relevant experience in contracts/commercial.
• Experience in EPC projects in offshore oil & gas.
• Law and contract law knowledge is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage contracts and support negotiations for medium risk contracts.
• Prepare RFQs/RFPs and manage contract closeout.
• Interact with stakeholders for contract administration.

Skills

Contracts Management

Negotiation

Commercial Awareness

Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Law, QS, Engineering, Business

Master's Degree in Construction Law, Business Administration or Economics

Job description

Modec Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd is a leading provider of solutions to the floating offshore oil & gas market for more than 50 years. Being part of Modec means being the protagonist of a challenging career and being in touch with the latest deep‑water production systems, knowing that your career begins in Singapore, but your talent can take you anywhere in the world.

Location: Metropolis, Buona Vista, Singapore.

Role Purpose

Senior Contracts Specialist are responsible for managing medium risk and/or small to medium‑size contracts and supporting commercial/contract negotiations in an autonomous manner. They assist a Contracts Manager and provide contractual, commercial and technical guidance to the project team and/or corporate team for the benefit of the wider organisation.

Key Accountabilities

• Organise and manage logs and files (both in terms of a central database and hard copy filing systems) in a systematic manner to allow for easy access.
• Assist the pre‑client contract award during pre‑FEED/FEED and during the proposal phase for seeking proposals from subcontractors on major packages.
• Post client contract award: preparation of RFQs/RFPs for medium risk contracts and work on them independently.
• Ensure prequalification requirements are adhered to when contracting with new subcontractors as well as reverting of existing or expired subcontractors within the MODEC approved list of subcontractors.
• Lead negotiations and manage low to medium risk contracts.
• Expose to negotiations and drafting of high risk contracts.
• Draft internal approval sheet and obtain approvals for all contracts.
• Post award subcontract management, drafting and/or review and approval of subcontract notices, amendments, change requests and change orders, warranty claims, and formalisation of subcontract closeout.
• Establish high quality cooperation and teamwork, contribute to a positive work environment.
• Handle contracts that are less than USD 10million in value from bidding to contract award to contract administration and closeout.
• Monitor and manage large amounts of data set, run reports and generate commercial data sets on major packages, and monitor commercial data on non‑major packages.
• Interact with external stakeholders and lead engagement with contractors for small to medium sized contracts.
• Develop insights during engagement process to deliver value‑addition.
• Interact frequently with internal stakeholders, lead and influence others in a team environment.
• Assist an FPSO Project Contracts Manager or a Corporate Contracts & Commercial Manager, plan and execute tasks with limited oversight.
• Report administratively and functionally to the Contracts & Commercial Head of Department, operationally to a line Contracts Manager.

Qualifications

• Tertiary Graduate / Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant area such as Law, QS (Quantity Surveying), Engineering, Business. Master’s Degree in a relevant subject such as Construction Law, Business Administration or Economics is valuable.
• Law and contract law as part of academic studies is preferred.
• Minimum 7‑10 years relevant experience (demonstrable under contracts and/or commercial).
• Experience in technical, contractual and commercial disciplines connected with Engineering, Procurement and Construction ("EPC") projects.
• Experience in offshore oil & gas or upstream oil and gas experience working for owner and contractor organisations in a project delivery environment.