Senior Construction Contracts and Claims Specialist

PrimECS; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 100,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Initial 3-4 month contract

Job summary

PrimECS in the United States seeks a Senior Construction Contracts and Claims Specialist to own the preparation of claims, change orders, and contract reviews for U.S. heavy civil and infrastructure projects.

Remote, part-time independent contractor; initial 3-4 months with potential extension. You will gather project records, develop contract revisions, and coordinate with project managers, finance, administrative staff, and external counsel.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience preparing claims for U.S. heavy civil/infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting change-order prep, disputed payments, and claim review/negotiation.
• Ability to interpret contract requirements and reconcile claim calculations with source costs.
• Strong technical writing, analytics, spreadsheets, and document control.
• Ability to work independently across a distributed team within U.S. Eastern Time hours.

Responsibilities

• Develop claim packages for changed scope, costs, disruption, delay, remobilization, and other impacts; create event chronologies and link them to contractual bases.
• Review contracts, amendments, directives, schedules, and cost records; identify missing evidence and gather it from owners, contractors, or team members.
• Prepare claim narratives, calculations, exhibits, change-order requests, and draft notices; reconcile with finance and identify prior payments and discounts.
• Assess schedule impacts using available records and determine when delay analysis is needed; evaluate evidence and shared responsibility.

Skills

Claims prep

Contract administration

U.S. contracts

Analytical skills

Technical writing

Schedule impact analysis

Independent work

Cross-team coordination

Job description

Location: United States

Senior Construction Contracts and Claims Specialist

U.S. Heavy Civil and Infrastructure Projects

Remote | Part-time independent contractor
Initial engagement: 3-4 months, with potential extension

About The Client

U.S.-based civil engineering and construction management firm providing engineering, surveying, project management, and construction support services for major infrastructure projects.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced, hands‑on specialist to own the preparation and coordination of construction claims, change‑order packages, and contract reviews. You will turn project records into substantiated submissions, develop proposed contract revisions, and drive assigned matters through management and legal review. Success requires independent analysis, clear writing, and persistent follow‑through with project teams.

The initial focus is on outstanding changes and payment‑related disputes, together with new contracts and amendments requiring review. You work directly with project managers, finance, administrative support, and external legal counsel.

Claims and Change Management

• Develop claim packages covering changed scope, additional costs, disruption, delay, remobilization, and other documented project impacts. Build an event chronology and connect the contractual basis, cause, impact, and requested relief.
• Review contracts, amendments, directives, correspondence, daily reports, schedules, quantities, and cost records. Distinguish supported facts from assumptions, identify weaknesses, and obtain missing evidence directly from the responsible team members.
• Prepare claim narratives, calculations, indexed exhibits, change‑order requests, draft notices, and responses. Reconcile amounts with finance and identify prior payments, credits, overlapping claims, and unsupported costs.
• Assess schedule impacts using available records and identify when specialist delay analysis is needed. Evaluate both supporting and adverse evidence, including potential responsibility shared by multiple parties.

Contract Review and Administration

• Compare original and revised agreements, subcontracts, and amendments. Produce a prioritized issues matrix and proposed revisions addressing scope, exclusions, survey responsibility, access, schedule, compensation, payment, insurance, indemnity, liability, termination, and dispute provisions.
• Identify incorporated documents, ambiguous obligations, notice requirements, submission deadlines, and documentation gaps. Coordinate unresolved legal questions with counsel and insurance requirements with the authorized broker.
• Maintain a live contract and claims register showing amounts, status, deadlines, evidence gaps, owners, next actions, and decisions required. Track approved submissions, delivery records, acknowledgments, and responses.
• Prepare concise recommendations and negotiation briefs for management. Follow up on missing inputs and overdue responses, elevate time-sensitive issues promptly, and develop reusable checklists and templates.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated, hands‑on experience preparing claims and administering U.S. construction contracts for heavy civil, transportation, transit, or public infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting project owners or contractors through change‑order preparation, disputed payment issues, and claim review or negotiation. Clearly describe your personal contribution to prior assignments.
• Ability to interpret contract requirements, analyze project records and schedule impacts, and reconcile claim calculations to source cost records.
• Strong technical writing, analytical, spreadsheet, and document-control skills, with the ability to produce clear, traceable, review‑ready work.
• Ability to work independently, obtain information across a distributed team, manage concurrent deadlines, and coordinate during agreed U.S. Eastern Time hours.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with rail or transit work, professional service agreements, delay and disruption analysis, and public‑sector contracting. Familiarity with Critical Path method (CPM) Scheduling, Procore, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Bluebeam, Excel, and Google Workspace are helpful. Practical capability and relevant work samples carry more weight than software familiarity alone.

Coordination and Authority

The specialist owns package preparation and follow‑through. Project staff validate technical facts and field records; finance validates costs, billing, and payment history; administrative support coordinates access and approvals. Legal advice and representation remain with appropriately licensed counsel.

The specialist may request records and coordinate reviews but may not accept contractual terms, certify insurance compliance, waive rights, settle claims, commit company funds, or authorize execution. External submissions and negotiations require designated management approval and legal review where appropriate.