Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities
Contract Takeover and Implementation
•    Participate in the post-signature contract takeover together with the Project Manager and project execution team.
•    Review the signed agreement, key obligations, milestones, risks, assumptions, customer responsibilities, and notice requirements.
•    Translate contractual requirements into practical actions for the project team.
•    Maintain the Contract Management Plan, obligations register, risk and opportunity register, change register, and claims tracker.
Risk and Opportunity Management
•    Identify and assess contractual risks and opportunities during project execution.
•    Develop mitigation and opportunity-pursuit actions with the Project Manager and relevant functions.
•    Preserve contractual rights, remedies, notices, reservations, and entitlements.
•    Monitor contractual deadlines and escalate material issues through the applicable governance channels.
Change and Claims Management
•    Identify and manage changes to scope, schedule, technical requirements, and customer obligations.
•    Coordinate contractual notices, change-order submissions, extension-of-time requests, cost-recovery claims, and responses to incoming claims.
•    Ensure that changes and claims are properly documented, substantiated, tracked, and progressed through resolution.
Recoveries
•    Identify and support recoveries from vendors, subcontractors, insurers, consortium partners, and other responsible parties.
•    Coordinate warranty claims, back-charges, insurance notifications, set-offs, and supporting evidence.
•    Align recovery actions with customer claims, project exposure, and contractual responsibilities.
Project Execution Collaboration
•    Work as an integrated member of the project execution team.
•    Collaborate closely with Project Management, Engineering, Project Controls, Finance, Sourcing, Quality, Logistics, Site Management, Commissioning, Services, Legal, and Insurance.
•    Ensure that contractual considerations are included in project planning, decision-making, scheduling, cost management, and customer communications.
•    Promote timely record keeping and shared accountability for contract implementation.
Governance and Close-Out
•    Perform all responsibilities in accordance with applicable Contract Management standards, policies, procedures, tools, and approval requirements.
•    Provide accurate and timely contract management reporting.
•    Support contractual close-out, final acceptance, outstanding claims, recoveries, securities, and warranty matters.
•    Capture lessons learned to improve future project execution.

Required Qualifications and Experience
•    Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Law, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Business Administration, or a related field.
•    Relevant experience in contract management, claims management, legal, commercial project management, or project execution.
•    Experience supporting large-scale energy equipment supply, infrastructure, industrial, EPC, or similar complex projects.
•    Strong experience in contractual risk and opportunity management during project execution.
•    Practical experience with change orders, claims, contractual notices, vendor recoveries, warranty matters, or insurance recoveries.
•    Experience working in international, cross-functional project teams.
•    Availability to travel across the Asia region.

Key Skills and Competencies
•    Strong understanding of contract implementation during project execution.
•    Expertise in contractual risk and opportunity management.
•    Good understanding of change, claims, entitlement, notice, and recovery principles.
•    Ability to interpret complex contracts and translate them into practical project actions.
•    Excellent written and spoken English.
•    Strong contractual drafting, analytical, reporting, and presentation skills.
•    Ability to understand technical, schedule, cost, and operational project matters.
•    Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills.
•    Ability to influence without direct authority and challenge constructively.
•    High level of integrity, accountability, attention to detail, and execution discipline.

Preferred Experience
•    Experience in gas turbines, aeroderivative equipment, power generation, major equipment supply, installation, or commissioning projects.
•    Familiarity with delay, disruption, extension-of-time, liquidated damages, performance guarantees, and warranty claims.
•    Knowledge of international contracting principles and standard forms such as FIDIC.
•    Experience working across Asian markets or in a global matrix organization.
•    Professional legal, engineering, project management, quantity surveying, or contract management qualification.

Reporting Line
The Aero NU Contract Manager – Asia will report directly to the Global Contract Management Leader and will work as an integrated member of assigned project execution teams.
 

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