Senior Contracts Engineer (16/10/2024) 

We are looking for a Senior Contracts Engineer for one of our clients with the following details:  

Estimated Start Date: 15 November 2024

Demob date: 31 December 2025

Location: Doha, Qatar

Work Status: Resident, Single

Qualifications & Experience Required

• BSc Degree in Science, Engineering, Business, or Commercial field or its equivalent
• Professional experience: Minimum 10 years’ experience required in Drilling, Geoscience and Marine contracts within the O&G industry.
• Personal Abilities: Basic Management, Advanced Human Relations, Problem Solving and Planning / organizing / coordinating / controlling.
• Strong business and commercial acumen
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Ability to work independently and use own initiative and work as part of a team.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload and work under pressure within given timescales.
• Pro-active and forward-looking approach
• Commitment to provide excellent client relations.

C&P competencies

• Advanced level in Contracts technical Competencies required.
• C&P tools advanced certification required

Activities

The Job holder liaises with other teams and participates to the processes and communication of the contracts entity by performing the following tasks

• Work closely with internal stakeholders to create the contracts dossier, develop contractual responsibilities including the following: - Validation of contracts strategy
• Negotiation and analysis of commercial bids
• Participation in recommendations to award
• Manage Contractor’s performance by monitoring KPIs.
• Ensure the update of the contracts management tool.
• Keep informed of best practices in contracts procedures in other entities for improvement of contracts practices in NOC.

The Job holder executes the following contracts activities

• Prepare and maintain an up-to-date list of qualified contractors/suppliers/potential tenders/contracts with updated information to perform market studies; analyse and assess all possible answers from the market.
• Participate to the validation of the contract’s strategy through: - Arranging and attending Contracts Committee Meetings
• Pre-qualifying bidders
• Defining target prices
• Defining criteria for evaluation
• Create call for tender documents.
• Prepare, issue, and manage the call for tender.
• 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 and confirm the applicable Terms & Conditions
• Establish the technical contracts and contractual agreements.
• Conduct bid analysis and negotiation.
• Prepare and Participate in Recommendation to award (RTA) through contract committee and award validation.
• Handle the approval from authorities and partners.
• Ensure the handover of contracts to the Partners’ Entities
• Provide ongoing support to the operations team in relation to the commercial issues that arise during contract and work with the operations team to identify areas of improvement.
• The participation in the settlement of disputes together with legal, insurance and finance specialists
• Perform the close-out of the Contracts.
• Ensure monitoring on-going contracts status, participate in contract renewal and amendments discussions.

The Job holder adheres to the HSEQ rules

• Take the necessary measures to always create an incident-free environment and respect HSEQ rules.

If interested, kindly apply!