Lead Contracts Engineer

• Introduce contracts practices and/or procedures for the establishment of contractual documents, in cooperation with the Project Team;
• Supervise and train contract engineers through field training;
• Help the Contract Engineers in managing the workload, the assignments, and competences update;
• Keep informed or best practices in contracts procedures in Project Team for improvement of contracts practices in MP;
• Ensure that all insurance issues of company assets and personnel are dealt with;
• Use frame agreements signed by shareholders;
• Prepare and maintain an up-to-date list of qualified contractors/suppliers/potential tenders/contracts with updated information to perform market studies;
• Take a leading role in the validation of the contracts’ strategy through:

- Arranging and attending Contracts Committee Meetings;

- Pre-qualifying bidders;

- Defining target prices;

- Defining criteria for evaluation;

• Supervise the creation of CFT commercial documents;

- Supervise the preparation and issue of the call for tender to contractors and suppliers on the bidders list;

- Ensure the preparation and send out the dossiers of pre-consultation and Standard or Complex invitations to bid;

- Verify the alignment with HSE clauses, Company rules, Procedures, Instructions, and applicable legislation when issuing all technical contracts and when drafting contractual and commercial terms and conditions;

- Verify the Terms & Conditions (standard, general and financial);

- Supervise the establishment of the technical contracts and contractual agreements, directly participate to the most complex contracts;

• Participate in terms & conditions and commercial bid complex analysis and negotiations to ensure that a clear definition of responsibilities is developed;
• Assume a leading role in RTAs through managing in Contract committees and award validation and RTA evaluations;
• Handle the approval from authorities and partners, clarification of rights and obligation of signing parties and the signature process of formal documents;
• Intervene in the settlement of claims, in relation with the Juridical, Insurance, Finance and COMPANY management by proposing strategies and actions and participating to the negotiations;
• Ensure monitoring of on-going contracts status, participate in contract management discussions;
• Review supplier performance;
• Ensure that all contracts’ personnel under his/her supervision is in line with the company’s standardized norms and codes of conduct;
• Take the necessary measures to avert immediate threat of danger. Exercising caution as necessary to avoid danger to persons and installations;
• Participate actively in HSE meetings, training sessions and drills and co-operate actively in the execution of HSE plans.