Senior Project Epc Contract Engineer

**Job title**: Senior Project EPC Contract Engineer
**Sector**: Oil & Gas
**Starting date**: ASAP
**Duration**: 12 Month
**Renewable**: Yes
**Location**: Paris - La Défense (France)
**Status**: Residential
**Language**: Fluent in English

**MISSIONS / SERVICE DIMENSIONS**
Typical EPC Package Project spent: 50M$ up to 3B$ CAPEX, with high complexity, for the different company’s branches (E&P, RC, GRP).
- Extensive transversal management of internal to C&P company’s entities (Categories, Legal,..) and external entities (Line products, Projects, Technical Entities)
- Role of representation of company project entity towards the projects and affiliates, in particular during some committees (Local contract committees for instance, shareholders, suppliers meetings, )
- Single Point of Contact and contract referent for designated projects, as required

**ACTIVITIES**
The activities deal with worldwide Contract Engineering and Administration but also Claims Management (including Contractor and Company claims and disputes) as detailed below:
1- Senior contract engineer for designated projects supported by PJE/AP:

- Provide support for all contract and procurement activities required by the designated capital project(s),
- Be able to advise and execute on more complex forms of CFT’s: CCFT, OBE/OBT, FEED+, etc.
- Develop the CFT package: commercial structure, contract terms, etc.
- Evaluate commercial aspects of the bids and recommend award,
- Claim Preventive awareness (contract management methods, tendering stage and early execution stage),
- Support project team to obtain relevant approvals and/or to go through any kind of gates.

2- Senior referent for some Projects contract engineering:

- Participate in defining and coordinating the contract methods for the entity (Contract toolbox, Competence requirement for contract engineers, expertise requirement, evaluation quiz...),
- Participate in coaching the contract engineers of the entity (Assistance, advice, training...),
- Ensure Governance is followed for Contracts process on projects of his/her perimeter (CFT, RTA, approvals),
- Ensure recurrent contacts with the contract engineers/managers of the Projects of his/her perimeter,

3- Coordination with company/JUR
- Participate to the overall coordination with company/JUR/PJE: information sharing, coordination of actions for the on-going projects of his/her perimeter
- Contribute to ensure coherence between PJE, JUR/PJE and Project’s needs.

4- Trainer for some training sessions dedicated to contract within Projects (as ICOP for instance).
5- as required, the incumbent may be requested to be the Single point of contacts for some designated projects (SPOC) (all branches E&P, RC, GRP).
6- Assist and/or participate in Claim Management or Counterclaim process:

- Analysis and review of existing Contracts/Claims: provide expertise support to projects for existing Contracts/Claims and corresponding resolution (contracts execution phase / close out phase):

- Advise and direct the projects for “on the spot requests” with regards to management of claims,
- Investigate and assess merit of major claim/dispute,
- Provide higher understanding and recommendations for building the Claim dossiers and corresponding settlement,
- Assist the project in drafting correspondences and notices to Contractors.

7- Contribute continuously to Contracts REX/Lessons Learnt consolidation. For each of the dossier, is starting by screening the existing REX and when completing a dossier preparing main lessons learnt to be shared with other contract engineers and to be archived.

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**
- Ability to influence & manage in transversal / Expert
- Language: French / Avancé & English / Expert
- Sharing of information/lessons learnt and communication skills / Expert
- EPC contract professional (15 years dedicated to Projects) / Expert
- Communication, influencing and networking skills / Expert
- Ability to manage heavy workload in a fast paced environment / Expert
- Knowledge of project phases including some experience as package contract engineers / Expert
- Other languages / Avancé
- Claim Management / Confirmé
- Contract preparation, CFT, negotiation, administration / Expert
- ility to work with complexity and challenging stakeholders / Expert