Senior Contracts and Claims Specialist

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

📋 Description

• Prepare and oversee construction claims, change-order packages, and reviews of contracts.

• Transform project documentation into substantiated claims and propose contract revisions.

• Navigate assigned issues through management and legal evaluations.

• Create claim packages for altered scopes, additional expenses, disruptions, delays, remobilization, and other documented effects.

• Construct event chronologies that link contractual foundations, causes, impacts, and requested relief.

• Examine contracts, amendments, directives, correspondence, daily reports, schedules, quantities, and financial records.

• Detect weaknesses and gather missing evidence from relevant team members.

• Draft claim narratives, calculations, indexed exhibits, change-order requests, notices, and responses.

• Reconcile amounts with finance and pinpoint payments, credits, overlapping claims, and unsupported costs.

• Evaluate schedule impacts and determine when specialist delay analysis is necessary.

• Compare original agreements with revised contracts, subcontracts, and amendments.

• Generate prioritized issue matrices and proposed revisions addressing key contractual provisions.

• Identify incorporated documents, ambiguous obligations, notice requirements, deadlines, and documentation deficiencies.

• Collaborate with legal counsel on inquiries and align insurance requirements with the authorized broker.

• Maintain an up-to-date contract and claims register, including amounts, statuses, deadlines, evidence gaps, owners, next steps, and necessary decisions.

• Monitor submissions, delivery records, acknowledgments, and responses.

• Formulate recommendations and negotiation briefs for management.

• Follow up on missing inputs and overdue responses, escalate urgent issues, and create reusable checklists and templates.

• Request records and facilitate reviews while adhering to delegated authority.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven, hands-on experience in preparing claims and managing U.S. construction contracts for heavy civil, transportation, transit, or public infrastructure projects.

• Experience assisting project owners or contractors with change-order preparation, disputed payment matters, and claim reviews or negotiations.

• Capability to interpret contract stipulations, analyze project records and schedule impacts, and reconcile claim calculations with source cost records.

• Exceptional technical writing, analytical, spreadsheet, and document-control abilities.

• Ability to work independently, gather information across a distributed team, manage simultaneous deadlines, and coordinate during agreed U.S. Eastern Time hours.

• Preferred experience in rail or transit projects, professional service agreements, delay and disruption analysis, and public-sector contracting.

• Helpful familiarity with CPM Scheduling, Procore, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Bluebeam, Excel, and Google Workspace.

• Practical skills and relevant work samples are valued more than mere software familiarity.

• Provide earliest start date, weekly availability, Eastern Time overlap, and proposed hourly rate.

• Submit a resume or professional profile, two relevant project examples detailing role and outcomes, and an authorized redacted claim narrative or contract-review sample.

• Do not include confidential client information.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engagement as a part-time independent contractor.

• Flexible remote work setup.

• Possibility of extension beyond the initial 3–4 month engagement period.

• Weekly hours, response expectations, hourly rate, and spending limit confirmed prior to commencement of work.

• Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete a brief paid assessment.