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Senior Contracts
Engineer

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Senior Contracts Engineer (Experience 10 – 12 Years)

ISC is looking to hire a Senior Contracts Engineer to be responsible for the full pre-award and post-award contract management cycle for ISC’s external clients. The role supports commercial strategy from tender stage through project close-out, with emphasis on contract review, risk allocation, change management, claims administration, payment certification support, and contractual correspondence. The position works closely with our clients’ Proposals, Technical Office, Project Controls, Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management, and Finance teams.

Key responsibilities:
  1. Tendering and pre-award support
  • Review client RFPs, ITTs, RFQs, draft agreements, scope documents, and commercial terms to identify contractual, technical, and commercial risks.
  • Prepare contract qualification schedules, deviation lists, tender clarifications, assumptions, and exceptions in coordination with Proposals and technical teams.
  • Support bid evaluations by assessing payment terms, liability regimes, securities, liquidated damages, delay exposure, insurance obligations, and key contractual deliverables.
  • Contribute to bid commercial submissions and ensure alignment between the proposed execution strategy and contractual obligations.

  1. Contract drafting, review, and negotiation
  • Draft, review, and negotiate client contracts, consultancy agreements, subcontracts, amendments, and letters of award.
  • Administer contracts under FIDIC forms of contract, with working familiarity of NEC principles and standard project correspondence protocols.
  • Review conditions of contract, Particular Conditions, scope matrices, schedules, and annexures to ensure clarity of obligations, interfaces, exclusions, and deliverables.

  1. Post-award contract administration
  • Establish and maintain the contract administration framework, including contract summaries, obligations registers, notice trackers, risk registers, and key correspondence logs.
  • Advise project teams on contract interpretation, notice requirements, entitlement positions, and compliance with time bars, approval workflows, and documentation standards.
  • Support the administration of invoices, payment applications, payment certificates, retention, back charges, and contractual deliverables tied to billing milestones.

  1. Change management, claims, and disputes
  • Manage variation orders, change requests, compensation events, and claims records from initiation through evaluation, negotiation, and closure.
  • Assess extension of time submissions, disruption events, and prolongation claims in coordination with planning and project controls teams.
  • Prepare contractual notices, responses, position papers, and claim narratives supported by contemporaneous records and contractual entitlement.
  • Support dispute avoidance and resolution through structured negotiation, escalation records, and preparation of contractual dossiers.

  1. Risk and stakeholder coordination
  • Interface with client representatives, project managers, discipline leads, procurement teams, and finance teams on contractual and commercial matters.
  • Monitor key contractual risks and obligations throughout execution, with focus on scope growth, schedule impact, payment exposure, and non-compliance risks.
  • Ensure contract administration remains aligned with PMC service obligations and with project execution requirements across engineering, procurement, and construction interfaces.
Compensation & Benefits

Basic Salary

Competitive.

Social Insurance

Provided by the company.

Medical Insurance

Provided by the company.

Probation Period

6 months.

Annual Leave

Competitive.

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