Contract Manager
Hsinchu
Taiwan
Posted on: 2024-07-03
Job type: Permanent
Sector: Energy and Utilities
Job Desription:
- Preparation, update and monitoring of the obligations register.
- Follow up with the project manager and the project team on a daily basis to ensure timely fulfillment of company’s obligations.
- Spreading awareness amongst the project team. Explaining the importance of meeting the contractual obligations and the necessity of seizing opportunities and rights
- Review on daily basis communications exchanged at all levels, whether vis-à-vis the client, with key subcontractors and even internal.
- Preparing and proposing contractual correspondence to be issued on the project, including notices, advance warning, instructions to subcontractors etc.
- Preparing and proposing responses to all contractual correspondence to be issued on the project, including responses to the client and subcontractors’ letters.
- Preparing contractual notices and claims and pursuing the same.
- Anticipate risks of claims and setting defensive strategies with the project manager and the team
- Ensure that defensive strategies are being implemented by the team and that the intended target is achieved
- Identification and brainstorming with the project team on contractual opportunities
- Implementing with the project team all measures necessary to seize such opportunities, including amongst others, initiation of variation orders and value engineering and negotiating and settling the same with the concerned parties
- Promoting amicable settlement with all parties concerned until resolving all disputes
- Evaluating strengths and weaknesses on the project and proposing with the project manager resolution strategies
- Maintaining cordial communication amongst the disputed parties and participate to all negotiation meetings
- Participating to alternative dispute resolution procedures when disputes are not solved amicably
- Tracking of pre-requisites for contract closing and ensure that all obligations linked to taking over and final completion certificates are timely achieved
- Monitoring and following up the clearance of remaining defects
- Ensuring that all company’s liabilities on the project are relieved and unconditional final completion certificate are obtained
- Essential Professional experience:
- 7 to 10 years working experience as Contract Manager
- Working experience on Engineering, Procurement and Construction projects
- Qualifications and training: Engineering / Construction / Project Management or QS background
- Languages: fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese (very good speaking and writing skills)
- Technical skills required:
- Demonstrable ability to interpret conditions of contract and to synthesis these for use by others
- Demonstrable aptitude for contractual risks identification
- Knowledge of claims production
Contact
Chrissy Shih
+886 2 7750 5721
Fyte
32F, No.333, Sec. 1, Keelung Rd., Xinyi District,
Taipei
Greater China