Commercial Claims & Notices Manager

Cubic Corporation; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Cubic Corporation seeks an experienced Commercial Claims & Notices Manager to support large transportation infrastructure programs. The role combines hands-on claim development, evidence gathering, and sophisticated notices drafting within an established governance framework.

You will collaborate with Project Controls, Finance, Legal, and Engineering to pursue recoveries. Ideal candidates have 10+ years in relevant fields and 5+ years in claims, changes, or dispute management, with strong

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in construction, infrastructure, transportation, engineering, systems integration, or major-project commercial management.
• 5+ years of direct experience in claims, changes, delay, entitlement, or dispute management.
• Experience drafting complex notices and formal claims.
• Strong contractual entitlement and notice-analysis capability.

Responsibilities

• Identify potential claims and notice events across engineering, design, systems integration, testing, commissioning, construction, operations, and owner-directed activities.
• Draft contractual notices, supplemental notices, reservation-of-rights correspondence, relief requests, and formal claims.
• Develop factual chronologies and investigate project events through documents and interviews.
• Manage a portfolio of claims and prioritize matters by value, entitlement, evidence, timing and recoverability.
• Provide leadership with reporting on claim value, maturity, risk, and next actions.

Skills

Construction experience

Infrastructure

Transportation

Engineering

Systems integration

Commercial management

Job description

Business Unit: Cubic Transportation Systems Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details: The Commercial Claims & Notices Manager will support a large, complex transportation infrastructure program. This role provides strategic hands-on support in identifying, developing, documenting and pursuing contractual entitlements, while ensuring that required notices are timely, accurate and consistent with the company’s contractual rights and commercial objectives. Cubic is seeking an experienced infrastructure or construction claims professional who can independently assess commercial entitlement, investigate project events, preserve contractual rights, develop supporting evidence, collaborate with Project Controls and Finance, and personally draft sophisticated notices and claims. This is not primarily contract administration, document control, or tracker-management position. This is a hands-on claims role for a professional who can quickly assume ownership of an established claims and notice governance framework and drive matters from initial event identification through recovery.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Work directly with project and program teams to identify potential claims and notice events across engineering, design, systems integration, testing, commissioning, construction, operations, third-party interfaces, and owner-directed activities at the earliest opportunity.
• Draft contractual notices, supplemental notices, reservation-of-rights correspondence, relief requests, and formal claims.
• Develop factual chronologies and investigate project events through correspondence, meeting records, schedules, technical documents, cost records, and interviews.
• Perform preliminary contractual entitlement and causation analysis.
• Identify evidentiary gaps and drive collection of supporting documentation.
• Work with Project Controls on CPM, critical-path, delay, concurrency, disruption, resequencing, mitigation, and acceleration issues.
• Work with Finance and project teams to develop defensible claim quantum.
• Manage a portfolio of claims at different stages of development and prioritize matters based on value, entitlement, evidence, timing, and recoverability.
• Prepare claim strategies, executive summaries, negotiation materials, rebuttals, and responses to owner challenges.
• Maintain disciplined governance across claims, notices, relief requests, changes, supervening events, delay events, and related commercial matters.
• Provide leadership with clear reporting on claim value, maturity, risk, weaknesses, next actions, and expected recovery.

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in construction, infrastructure, transportation, engineering, systems integration, or major-project commercial management.
• 5+ years of direct experience in claims, changes, delay, entitlement, or dispute management.
• Demonstrated experience personally developing claims from initial event identification through submission and negotiation.
• Strong contractual entitlement and notice-analysis capability.
• Experience personally drafting complex notices and formal claims.
• Working knowledge of CPM scheduling, critical-path analysis, concurrency, delay, disruption, acceleration, and forensic schedule concepts.
• Experience developing or supporting claim quantum, including extended-duration costs, labor, subcontractor impacts, rework, escalation, productivity, and other incremental costs.
• Strong investigative capability, including reconstructing events from incomplete project records and interviewing technical and project personnel.
• Experience managing multiple claims simultaneously across different maturity stages.
• Excellent professional writing and executive communication skills.
• Ability to operate independently and challenge unsupported assumptions while working effectively with Commercial, Project Controls, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Program Management, Operations, and subcontractors.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%, primarily domestic.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in one or more of the following is highly desirable: Major transportation or public infrastructure programs.
• Rail, transit, tolling, fare collection, or Intelligent Transportation Systems.
• Design-build or systems-integration programs.
• Testing, commissioning, and systems-acceptance disputes.
• Contractor-side claims involving sophisticated public-sector owners.
• Primavera P6 and forensic schedule analysis.
• Formal dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration, or expert-supported claims.
• P3 or project-financed infrastructure environments.

The successful candidate should be able to step into an established governance framework, rapidly take ownership of the claims pipeline, and begin advancing defensible commercial recovery positions with limited day-to-day supervision.

Cubic Pay Range: $155,000- $175+ benefits.

Cubic Pay Range:

*Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Worker Type: Employee

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law. Cubic creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation that make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities that help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global challenges through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Cubic is dedicated to providing a comprehensive employee benefits program. All regular, full-time and part-time employees (working an average of 20 hours per week) are eligible for benefits that are effective on the first day of employment. Cubic offers medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid disability (company continues full pay and benefits for up to six weeks), life insurance options, critical illness and accident coverages, Flexible Spending Accounts, a pre-paid legal plan, travel accident insurance, an award-winning well-being program which includes an employer-funded lifestyle spending account, up to six weeks of paid parental leave, and a 401k Retirement Plan with a company match. Employees can also take advantage of backup childcare, pet care, pet insurance, virtual tutoring, and a tuition reimbursement program. Many locations follow a 9/80 work schedule with time-off policies to help encourage employees to take time for rest and relaxation. Full-time salaried employees are eligible to participate in Cubic’s flexible time-off arrangement. Part-time and hourly employees accrue paid time-off (PTO)/Sick leave at a rate of 5.23 hours bi-weekly. Lastly, Cubic provides its employees 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. With a presence in over 60 countries and more than 5,000 employees worldwide, Cubic is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer. We are committed to ensuring a workplace free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, military or veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable law. For more information on Equal Employment please visit: http://www.cubic.com/Careers/Applicant-Help To learn more, visit Cubic.com. Follow us on LinkedIn!