Contract Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Provide back-office support in the contractual management of hydro projects, collaborating with project leadership and site teams.

• Safeguard contractual and commercial interests through effective contract administration, timely notifications, change management, and risk monitoring.

• Oversee contractual matters from the bidding stage or contract handover through to execution, close-out, and warranty phases.

• Analyze contractual rights, obligations, assumptions, exclusions, deliverables, milestones, remedies, and commercial stances.

• Compose, assess, and customize commercial and contractual communications.

• Engage in negotiations and the finalization of amendments, change orders, and other commercial agreements.

• Serve as the contractual expert for projects and liaise with project management, site teams, technical staff, controls, sourcing, quality, and additional functions.

• Prepare and oversee formal notifications, rights reservations, change requests, claims support documentation, and contractual submissions.

• Maintain accurate contractual records, registers, logs, trackers, dashboards, and updates for leadership.

• Identify contractual risks, opportunities, deviations, and key watchpoints.

• Coordinate substantiation packages, event chronologies, and supporting documentation for changes and claims.

• Monitor occurrences that may lead to cost or schedule impacts.

• Assist with the administration of supplier and subcontractor contracts and ensure flow-down obligations are met.

• Collaborate with project directors, project managers, legal teams, sourcing, finance, engineering, project controls, customers, partners, suppliers, and subcontractors.

• Aid in compliance, milestone verification, payment documentation, dispute strategies, contract close-out, final account documentation, releases, turnover, and management of warranty issues.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Law, Business, Finance, Project Management, or a related technical or commercial field, along with a minimum of 5–8 years of proven experience in contract management within complex project settings.

• Proven experience in post-award contract administration, contract interpretation, and addressing contractual issues during project execution.

• Experience in drafting and managing formal contractual correspondence, notifications, amendments, and documentation related to changes.

• Strong comprehension of contractual risk allocation, commercial implications, and the relationship between project execution events and contract entitlements.

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills, capable of managing multiple priorities, deadlines, and streams of documentation.

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capacity to work effectively across functions in a matrixed and international environment.

• Proficiency in English is essential.

• Experience supporting hydroelectric, pumped storage, power generation, or other intricate infrastructure projects.

• Familiarity with EPC, split-scope, consortium, supply-and-install, or similarly complex project delivery frameworks.

• Knowledge of change management, claims support, commercial risk registers, and contract management practices.

• Ability to exercise sound commercial judgment based on contract language, project facts, and documented records.

• Strong attention to detail with the ability to create clear, well-structured contractual communications and summaries.

• A proactive mindset, strong sense of ownership, and a willingness to identify issues early on and drive resolutions.

• Capability to collaborate effectively with remote teams and support site execution from a back-office perspective.

• Experience within a complex matrix organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for periodic travel for project meetings, internal workshops, customer discussions, supplier negotiations, or significant project milestones.

• Relocation assistance is not available.