Contracts Manager - Capital Projects

RavenVolt Inc, An ABM Company; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ABM Energy & Power Solutions (EPS) seeks an experienced Contracts Manager - Capital Projects to lead commercial contracting across complex electrical infrastructure, energy, and design-build programs in the United States. You will guide pre-award negotiations, drive cross-functional reviews, and ensure clean handoffs to project teams for successful execution.

The role requires five-plus years in construction contract administration or related fields, with strong negotiation, written

Qualifications

• Strong written communication, organization, negotiation, and cross-functional stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to interpret complex contracts, identify commercial and operational implications, and translate requirements into clear actions for Sales and project teams.
• Experience supporting pre-award contract review, negotiation, and administering commercial construction, electrical infrastructure, EPC, or design-build contracts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary commercial contracting resource from receipt of customer agreement through contract execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews, maintain redlines, issue lists, risk summaries, negotiation matrices, and audit trails.
• Establish owners, track actions, and drive items to timely resolution; escalate material risks to Legal.
• Support negotiation strategy and ensure alignment with scope, pricing, schedule, and supplier commitments.
• Facilitate a complete handoff of negotiated obligations to project execution teams.
• Establish and improve contract-review processes, templates, and controls; report on cycle time and risks.
• Translate executed agreements into contract summaries, obligation matrices, and kickoff requirements.
• Provide risk-based post-award contract support for high-risk projects; assist with notices and change orders.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain and Project Management to align subcontract and supplier obligations with prime contracts.
• Connect contract events to cost, schedule, and risk reporting; support closeout requirements.

Skills

Written communication

Organization

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, business, finance, or related field

JD is preferred

Job description

Position Summary ABM Energy & Power Solutions (EPS) is seeking an experienced Contracts Manager - Capital Projects to support the execution of complex electrical infrastructure, energy, and design-build projects.
The Contracts Manager will provide commercial contracting leadership across the full project lifecycle - from receipt of a proposed customer agreement and pre-award negotiations through execution and closeout. Serving as the primary commercial contracting resource for Sales and a risk-based resource for Operations, this role will coordinate cross-functional reviews, maintain contracting discipline, confirm proposal-to-contract alignment, and ensure a complete handoff to project teams. Legal will retain responsibility for legal interpretation, legal approvals, and material legal matters. Essential Functions Pre-Award Contracting & Commercial Coordination

• Serve as the primary commercial contracting resource supporting Sales from receipt of a proposed customer agreement through contract execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews and maintain redlines, issue lists, risk summaries, negotiation matrices, decisions, approvals, version control, and a clear audit trail.
• Establish owners, track outstanding actions and dependencies, and drive open items toward timely resolution.
• Identify and escalate material commercial and operational risks while referring legal interpretations, legal approvals, and material legal matters to Legal.
• Support negotiation strategy and customer contract discussions and confirm alignment with the approved scope, pricing, schedule, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, and supplier commitments.
• Facilitate a complete handoff of negotiated obligations, commercial positions, and open commitments to the project execution team.

Contract Governance & Process Improvement

• Establish and continuously improve contract-review processes, workflows, templates, controls, and decision records across the contract lifecycle.
• Evaluate and implement contract-management tools and provide concise reporting on cycle time, open risks, approvals, and agreements approaching execution.

Post-Award Contract Administration & Commercial Protection

• Translate executed agreements into concise contract summaries, obligation matrices, and project kickoff requirements.
• Provide risk-based post-award contract support, prioritizing strategic, complex, or higher-risk projects and material commercial events while enabling project teams to administer routine obligations consistently.
• Partner with Project Managers to identify changes, delays, directives, differing conditions, and other entitlement events; support timely notices and change-order documentation.
• Monitor pending or unapproved changes and escalate material commercial exposure before significant out-of-scope work proceeds.
• Support claims documentation, event chronologies, entitlement positions, and coordination with Legal on material disputes and contract interpretations.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Project Management to align major subcontract and supplier obligations with prime-contract requirements.

Project Controls, Reporting & Closeout

• Connect contractual events and changes with project cost, schedule, forecast, and monthly risk reporting.
• Support final changes, releases, warranties, lien waivers, final account reconciliation, and other contractual closeout requirements.
• Capture lessons learned and provide structured feedback to Sales, Estimating, Operations, Supply Chain, and Legal to improve future contract positions, pricing assumptions, and risk allocation.

Qualifications Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Five (5)+ years of experience in construction contract administration, commercial management, project controls, project management, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience supporting pre-award contract review and negotiation and administering commercial construction, electrical infrastructure, EPC, or design-build contracts.
• Working knowledge of redlines, approvals, change orders, notices, claims, payment provisions, warranties, bonding, insurance, and contract closeout.
• Ability to interpret complex contracts, identify commercial and operational implications, and translate requirements into clear actions for Sales and project teams.
• Strong written communication, organization, negotiation, and cross-functional stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• JD (Juris Doctor) from a credited law school is preferred
• Experience within electrical construction, power, energy infrastructure, BESS, distributed generation, microgrids, EV infrastructure, switchgear, or other complex capital-project environments.
• Experience supporting customer contract negotiations and administering EPC and/or design-build agreements.
• Experience with major equipment procurement and supplier contracts.
• Familiarity with AIA, Consensus, customized contract forms, and contract-management systems; CCM, CPCM/NCMA, PMP, or similar certification is a plus.