Contracts Director

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Contracts Director

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the overall contract management working with AtkinsRéalis’s and Client’s core project team.
• Develop a commercial and contractual framework that aligns Client’s objectives with those of the Project participants.
• Verify that the way in which the Project participants are selected, organized, and paid, and the conditions of contract used do not hinder these objectives.
• Review the tender documents regarding the sufficiency of performance specifications to enable tenders for the construction of the Project to be procured to the agreed risk profile.
• Manage the tender process, issuing out tenders, managing interview sessions, establishing a pre-tender estimate, assessing market rate benchmarks against submitted bids, producing tender reports and recommendations for awards.
• Work with Employer’s and Client’s project and design team throughout the tender process ensuring professionalism and transparency, and compliance with the Code of Conduct.
• Carry out peer review of the intended design commercial tender analysis and recommendations for selection.
• Measure cost, time, and risk components and provide sufficient transparency to check, challenge, and validate these measures.
• During Project execution, check, challenge, and validate the actual values of these components measured by the contractor and compare them to the Project Execution Plan.
• Provide Employer’s and Client’s Project Team with sufficient foresight to navigate around potential risks before they become irreversible problems.
• Capture synchronous snapshots of cost, time, and scope data, and establish effective data streams through a robust Project data collection process.
• Check, challenge, and validate the periodic snapshots provided by the contractor.
• Manage Project risks and use cost, schedule, and scope forecasts as an information source to identify Project risks.
• Set up and maintain a Project risk register.
• Establish the Project Governance structure and develop the Project Execution Plan.
• Set up and manage the change control process to forecast what is ahead and what action needs to be taken.
• Set up a project controls model depicting the components of project definition and run down of contingency defined by the project's Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

Requirements

• A recognized university Degree ideally in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Ideally a Chartered Quantity Surveyor, Civil / Structural Engineer, or Project Manager.
• Minimum of 10 to 15 years’ post qualification experience, ideally with major building projects.
• Team / people management skills and experience with an ability to establish, maintain, and develop working relationships in culturally diverse teams.
• Experience with commercial risk identification, assessment, and management.
• Experience with claims assessment.
• Be a confident, resourceful, articulate, and clear communicator with the ability to influence others.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We at AtkinsRéalis are committed to developing our people both personally and professionally. Our colleagues have access to a wide-ranging training portfolio and development activities designed to help make the best of individual’s abilities and talents. We also actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.

Meeting Your Needs

To help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we offer employees ‘Total Reward’. Making sure you're supported is important to us. If you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview, and we’ll discuss any adjustments you might need.

Additional Information

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