Contract Manager

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

📋 Description

• Assist in the contractual management of hydro projects from a back-office contract management viewpoint.

• Safeguard GE Vernova’s contractual and commercial interests through effective contract administration, notices, change management, and risk monitoring.

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

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

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

• Engage in negotiations and finalize amendments, change orders, and additional commercial instruments.

• Serve as the contractual expert for project management, site operations, technical teams, controls, sourcing, quality assurance, and other relevant functions.

• Prepare and manage notices, reservations of rights, change requests, amendments, claims support documentation, and contractual submissions.

• Maintain comprehensive contractual records, registers, logs, trackers, dashboards, and provide updates to leadership.

• Identify and assess contractual risks, opportunities, deviations, and critical watchpoints.

• Coordinate substantiation packages, event timelines, and supporting records with project controls, planning, sourcing, finance, legal, and technical teams.

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

• Assist in the administration of supplier and subcontractor contracts and their flow-down obligations.

• Advise project teams on contractual matters and elevate issues to leadership when necessary.

• Facilitate compliance, milestone verification, payment documentation, contract closure, final accounts, releases, turnover, and warranty-related issues.

• Report to the regional North America Contract Management Leader.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proven experience in post-award contract administration, contract interpretation, and management of contractual issues throughout project execution.

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

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

• Excellent organizational and analytical capabilities.

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively across functions within a matrixed and international organization.

• Fluency in English is essential.

• Experience in hydroelectric, pumped storage, power generation, or complex infrastructure projects is preferred.

• Familiarity with EPC, split-scope, consortium, supply-and-install, or other complex project delivery models is advantageous.

• Knowledge of change management, claims support, commercial risk registers, and contract management procedures is preferred.

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

• Experience in navigating a complex matrix organization is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for periodic travel for project meetings, internal workshops, client meetings, supplier discussions, or key project milestones.

• Relocation assistance is not available.