Contracts Manager - Go Rail Expansion (Rer)

**Build Your Career at Aecon**
Aecon is proud to build some of the most impactful infrastructure projects of this generation. From the roads and transit systems that connect our communities, to the communication networks that link us from coast-to-coast, and the water infrastructure that supplies our businesses and homes. Our integral work includes constructing the pipelines that join provinces with the energy that fuels the nation, and the airports and ports that connect us all. Aecon is there, safely and sustainably building the future.
**What Is The Opportunity**
**What You'll Do Here**
- Drives the Contract Management activities with the support, when resources are allocated, of Project contract manager(s) and/or Contract Administrator(s).
- Drives preparation of Contract Summary and ensure it is widely communicated and regularly updated.
- Prepares with Core Project Team Contract Management Strategy Plan (CMSP)
- Carefully analyzes the contract to build and drive implementation of Contract/Claim Management Strategy Plan, as well as keep it updated with project team on quarterly basis.
- Contributes to Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL) by the Project Team members so that it is launched in time, is accurately communicated, and updated.
- Monitors Works toward contract obligations, including monitoring of project schedule toward achieving contractual milestones.
- Ensures timely issuance of contractual notices to customers/partners/subcontractors.
- Establishes and implement project specific commercial procedures, particularly regarding correspondences, notifications, insurance, variation requests/orders and claims preparation files..
- Contributes to the Return of Experience (REX)
- Monitors/manages insurance policy and keep its validity in collaboration with Partners Insurance Managers. Keeps the Partners Insurance Manager duly updated regarding all changes on the project that could represent any deviation of the reaching of the insurance policy.
- Develops and produces any project specific processes and ways of working for contract/claim management.
- Develops a pragmatic commercial approach based on contractual analysis of the project, to protect, on a daily basis, ONxpress interests toward customers and partners.
- Carefully monitors, records, and notifies customer/partners regarding claims/counterclaims and prepares and manages all elements and supporting documentation for claims/counterclaims negotiations.
- Monitors customer/partner requests for variations / change orders / extensions of time. Provides follow-up, as necessary, to drive to transactional closure, including updates to the VO/VR/Delay registers, preparation of commercial offer, and prepares associated contractual letters for CD/PM approval.
- Provides creative advice on specific issues, risks, and contractual/claims activities, taking into account the contract and business objectives.
- Reports on contract management and claims activities to the project, and Legal, and Contract Management teams.
- Ensures Contract management KPIS are reported as per reporting deadlines including gathering the inputs from Key supplier Contract Managers and Insurance Managers,
- Provides training on contract/claim management to key project stakeholders, including project management, finance, engineering, and sourcing communities.
- Anticipates events and risks associated with the contract management activities;
proposes alternative proactive solutions to keep the situation under control.
- Works closely with the Project Directors, Project Managers, Project Controllers, Project Engineering Managers, Sourcing Contract Managers, and Project Planning Managers, to identify and mitigate risks;
and to identify, maximize, and leverage claim opportunities.
- Provides at any time, on management demand, a reliable and understandable contractual and commercial analysis of the project.
- For Dispute Arbitration Board (DAB) or similar non-litigation mechanism for dispute resolution, PrCM is required to prepare DAB files, referral notes along with substantial evidences and active participation in the process before the adjudication board or similar board.
- Trains, develops, and share knowledge and expertise to ONxpress team and partners, as required.
**What You Bring to the Team**
- Must have a degree in Law, Engineering, Finance, Technical, Economics or business sciences.
- Minimum of 10 years of Contract/Claim Management experience (preferred)/ Project Management ideally in the Engineering and Construction\ EPC industry or on Transit/Rail infrastructure projects
- Ability to read and interpret contractual documents, including terms and conditions, planning, and technical specifications.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Ability to understand project financials and impact of contract/claim management on project’s profitability.
- Ability to solve p