Senior Contracts Administrator
Canada
Fulltime: 40 hrs a week
Experience: 6-9 Years
Education Level: Professional Bachelor
Mining
Introduction
Senior Contracts Administrator
Saskatoon, SK
FIFO
What are you going to do
Responsibilities
- Administer and manage a portfolio of complex, high-value contracts throughout the project lifecycle.
- Interpret and apply contract terms and conditions while ensuring compliance with project requirements and commercial objectives.
- Manage contractual notices, correspondence, change orders, amendments, claims, and dispute resolution activities.
- Review and evaluate contractor requests for change, commercial adjustments, schedule impacts, and contractual entitlements.
- Support the development and negotiation of commercial solutions to contractual issues.
- Monitor contractor performance, costs, commitments, deliverables, and contractual obligations.
- Identify contractual and commercial risks and support the development of appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Maintain accurate contract documentation, registers, correspondence, records, and reporting.
- Participate in contractor meetings and represent the owner's commercial interests throughout project execution.
- Support contract closeout activities, including final account reconciliation, documentation turnover, and lessons learned.
- Provide contractual and commercial guidance to project teams regarding rights, obligations, risks, and contract strategy.
- Collaborate closely with procurement, project controls, legal, engineering, construction, and project management teams.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with contractors and key project stakeholders.
Essential skills and knowledge
Requirements
- Minimum 10+ years of contracts administration or contract management experience within major capital project environments.
- Experience across a diverse portfolio of projects, ideally including a combination of mining, oil & gas, infrastructure, energy, or heavy industrial construction.
- Demonstrated experience administering complex, high-value contracts across different scopes and stages of project execution.
- Experience with a variety of contracting arrangements involving EPC/EPCM, construction, engineering services, equipment supply, procurement, heavy civil, earthworks, mechanical, electrical, and specialized contractor services.
- Strong understanding of contract change management, claims administration, commercial risk, and contractual governance.
- Experience evaluating contractor change requests, commercial adjustments, schedule impacts, and contractual entitlement.
- Strong understanding of different contracting strategies, commercial models, and risk allocation.
- Experience working with EPC/EPCM contractors, construction contractors, suppliers, consultants, and specialized subcontractors.
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to interpret complex contractual requirements and provide practical guidance to project teams.
What we offer
What We Offer
Why work with Brunel? We are proud to offer exciting career opportunities from over 100 offices globally in 42 countries. Advancing your career takes time and effort - let us match you to your ideal position.
About Us
Brunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That's what we continually strive for. Brunel provides the global recruitment and workforce services you need to lead your industry. With 50 years of market experience in Renewable Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Mining and Infrastructure, we help you finish major projects safely, compliantly, on-time, within budget and at the highest quality, so you can keep growing - anywhere in the world.
Closing: 02 February 2027
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Process of your application
Application process & contact
We will now begin examining your application: We will take a close look at your application documents and ask you for additional information if necessary. If your qualifications match our requirements, we will invite you to meet us for the first time.
Project discussion with our customer
If the introductory meeting goes well for you and us, we will arrange a meeting with the customer who has the perfect project for you. This gives you the opportunity to find out more about the customer and the project.
The decision
If you enjoyed the project discussion and the customer is also convinced of your expertise, we will ask you the final and decisive question: Do you want to get started at Brunel?
Introductory conversation with Brunel
In an introductory meeting, we would like to find out more about your interests, ambitions and professional developments. At the same time, we report on working at Brunel and provide information about all career opportunities and prospects.
Welcome to Brunel
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