Contracts Specialist

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

📋 Description

• Act as the primary gatekeeper for all contract documents, ensuring meticulous document and version control across forms, contracts, and exhibits.

• Oversee the intake and step-by-step processing of counterparty documents, which includes confirming markups, reconstructing tracked changes, scrubbing metadata, and maintaining a clear audit trail of versions.

• Integrate Aypa standard terms and exhibits into contracts related to battery and solar PV supply, service, and EPC.

• Draft initial versions and conduct preliminary reviews of contracting documents, guiding them towards execution within the anticipated timelines.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external legal counsel on supply and EPC contracts.

• Work together with legal, finance, engineering, procurement, and commercial teams to define contract scopes and incorporate negotiated terms.

• Maintain dashboards and trackers to oversee the progression of deals.

• Compile execution packages, prepare signature blocks, and distribute fully executed conformed copies.

• Implement corporate contracting tools, templates, processes, systems, and guidelines.

• Execute additional duties as assigned or required.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or a degree in contract management, construction/project management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Two to five years of experience in contract administration, contract management, paralegal, or transactional support roles.

• Practical experience with EPC or equipment supply contracting in energy storage, renewables, or large-scale infrastructure is highly preferred.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word for contract-related tasks, including Track Changes, comment workflows, Compare and Combine, styles, multilevel clause numbering, and cross-references.

• Skilled in Excel, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe Sign.

• Ability to handle complex, high-volume document workflows.

• Familiarity with EPC and equipment supply agreements in the energy sector, including scope of work and exhibit sets, milestone payment and delivery schedules, limited notice to proceed and notice to proceed, change orders, liquidated damages, performance guarantees and warranties, bonding and parent guarantees, as well as interconnection and permitting deliverables.

• Exceptional attention to detail and disciplined control of documents/versions.

• Capability to work independently and juggle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

• Strong planning skills with the ability to execute multiple projects concurrently.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities.

• Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills.

• Comfort with AI-assisted contract review and drafting tools, along with the discipline to verify outputs against source documents.

• Adherence to the highest standards of ethics and integrity.

• Ability to adapt to shifting priorities under pressure.

• Must be eligible to work in the United States.

• Willingness to travel 10–15% for direct vendor negotiations and industry trade shows.

• Candidates should anticipate a practical redlining and document-cleanup exercise during the interview process.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus based on individual performance as well as the overall success of the business.

• Comprehensive health care, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401k matching program.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid parental leave.

• Additional health and wellness benefits.