Contracts Engineer Full-time Job

MISSION:

During the contract execution phase, analyze and manage the contract terms, exploring contractual solutions and alternatives in order to minimize risks and optimize opportunities

TASKS:

Manage and coordinate contract management activities ensuring that all aspects of the contract during the negotiation and execution phase are correctly addressed.

Ensure that Golden Rules and Silver Guidelines are implemented.

Manage the resources involved in contract management activities, develop relevant professional competences and identify project staffing needs.

Supervise the application of Saipem guidelines and standards relevant to contract management Provide all necessary reports regarding contract management matter to the corporate/company/project management.

Ensure collection and sharing of lessons learned, feedbacks and returns of experience on issues/criticalities encountered during contract management activities.

Ensure, for the area of its remit, application of the industrial risk management methodology.

Recover bid contractual summary, any legal analyses and other support documentation prepared during tender phase.

Verify the completeness of contract documents (consistency check), supervise their distribution to project team members and regularly execute contract induction meetings.

Assist the Project Manager in developing the contract management execution strategy and ensure change process on the project, including appropriate claim management actions.

Ensure that all project specific contracts for goods, services or subcontracts are drafted incorporating contractual obligations and assisting the Project Manager in identifying critical packages (subcontractors and vendors) requiring special monitoring of contract risks.

Participate in the periodical project budget review meetings.

Review regulatory requirements.

Review, update and complete all partner agreements according to contract/project development.

Coordinate the contractual documentation filling.

Ensure the contribution to the Legal function for the management of preliminary activities of litigations and contribute during the following activities.

SKILL:

Contract Management Execution (claim and change management with regards to partners, suppliers and customers):

Knowledge of contracts schemes and contractual terms and ability to analyse the main contractual conditions Knowledge of the process of claim and change management with regards to contracts with partners, suppliers and customers. Capability to address rights and responsibilities in a legal perspective and to highlighting pros and cons in relation to a certain variation, dispute or claim, distinguishing the commercial and legal constraints.

Maritime regulations and company procedures:

Knowledge of the appropriate and applicable legislative requirements including but not limited to ISM Code, SOLAS and MARPOL.

Risk assessment principles:

Knowledge of methodologies and tools for conducting risk assessment in terms of detecting, evaluating and prioritising risks

Contractual (i.e. special, general and contract) terms and conditions:

Knowledge of contractual regulations, standard terms and conditions.

Saipem is an advanced technological and engineering platform for the design, construction and operation of safe and sustainable complex infrastructure and plants. Saipem has always been oriented towards technological innovation and is currently committed, alongside its clients, on the frontline of energy transition with increasingly digitalised tools, technologies and processes that were devised from the outset with environmental sustainability in mind. It is listed on the Milan stock exchange and operates in 70 countries around the world with 32 thousand employees from 130 different nationalities.
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