Senior Contracts Administrator
Canada
Fulltime: 40 hrs a week
Experience: 6-9 Years
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 knowledgeÂ
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.
Anything else ?
Shape your future
Are you ready for the next step in your career? Join Brunel’s powerful global network, where passionate, results-driven specialists come together with industry-leading clients. By connecting specialists to pioneering projects, we drive change in many industries, enabling growth and delivering great outcomes. Brunel helps you reach your full potential and empowers you to make an impact within a purpose-driven global company.
Explore your career opportunities!
Explore your career opportunities!
Our Culture and Values
At Brunel, we are proud of our unique corporate culture, which is shaped and nurtured by the collective efforts of our employees. Our work environment is characterised by an authentic, communicative and inclusive approach to teamwork that fosters an atmosphere of collaboration and creativity. Our values are at the center of everything we do – for our clients, our colleagues and ourselves.
Learn more about our global network of specialists!
Learn more about our global network of specialists!
Our ESG Commitment
Since 1975, our mission has always been to connect specialists to exciting career opportunities, to support the development of these careers, and to offer fair and equal employment. This has enabled us to create a truly sustainable and durable business model. Having a passion for people and caring deeply for the environment is not only part of Brunel’s DNA but is also reflected in our culture and values. As a global company, we take our social responsibility very seriously.
Join us on our mission!
Join us on our mission!
Are you the perfect match for this vacancy? Apply in 1 minute and let's get in touch!
