Contract Administrator

About the role

The Contact Administrator role involves day-to-day contract administration on large-scale high-rise construction projects, including running notices, determinations, registers, correspondence, and maintaining the overall contractual record for site contracts.

Key responsibilities

• Day-to-day contract administration: running notices, determinations, registers, correspondence, and the overall contractual record for site contracts
• Claims and entitlement: assembling the record and preparing the technical case in support of claims, so that determinations can be made on entitlement raised on site
• Maintaining a consistent contractual record: ensuring delays and contract issues are documented to a uniform standard across all packages, so the record can be relied on if a claim is contested
• Extensions of time (EOT): ensuring extensions of time are addressed within the periods allowed under the contracts, protecting the project's position before a claim reaches its merits
• Delay analysis: preparing and interrogating delay analysis to a standard that supports a determination, including establishing the as-planned and as-built position, concurrency, and the critical-path effect
• Multi-prime and cross-area coordination: acting as the single point of contractual ownership where a contract straddles more than one tower or Construction Manager area
• Termination and settlement: supporting the technical and factual basis for termination and settlement matters as they arise
• Defects liability and closeout: administering the contractual requirements through the defects liability period and project closeout
• Reporting and support: providing reporting and technical support to the Contracts Officer, and supplying the technical and factual basis on which Legal advice is given
• Interface with contractors on site: acting as the direct management and escalation point for contractors — chairing commercial meetings and issuing instructions and determinations

About you

• 10–15 years of experience in contract administration on large-scale high-rise construction projects
• Technical background in engineering, architecture, or construction management
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and interrogate delay analysis, including assessment of concurrency
• Ability to independently derive and test a critical path, rather than rely on or accept a contractor-prepared critical path
• Experience on multi-prime, complex projects where interface delay between contractors or trade packages has been contested
• Strong site presence, with the aptitude and standing of a construction manager, sufficient to exercise contractual authority over Construction Managers on site
• Seniority equivalent to a Construction Manager, given the technical and contractual authority the role carries
• Demonstrated strong capability and skill in MS Excel, with proven use on past projects
• Planning software literacy sufficient to interrogate a contractor's programme; advanced skills in P6 and/or MS Project is an advantage