Overview In this role you support Bechtel's commercial management on a large LNG project by identifying and resolving issues that affect cost recovery and contract compliance. You will maintain issue registers, track claims, and prepare defensible narratives while coordinating with Legal and project teams. You act across disciplines to ensure timely resolution and clear visibility of risks, deadlines, and action items. This is a hands-on position with room to influence project outcomes in a complex, multinational environment.
Compensation / Benefits- robust benefits to help employees thrive
- career advancement opportunities
- culture programs
- time to recharge
- global project exposure
Responsibilities- Maintain the project's commercial registers for claims, disputes, backcharges, notices, trends, and unresolved matters, and identify emerging issues that may result in cost growth, schedule impact, unrecovered cost, commercial exposure, or dispute risk
- Track owner, subcontractor, supplier, and internal commercial claims from identification through closeout, and support administration of subcontractor and supplier backcharges in accordance with project and corporate procedures
- Review and analyse contracts, change orders, project documentation, cost impacts, delays, and entitlement issues, and provide a reasoned assessment to support the project's position
- Build the evidential record for each issue, assembling correspondence, chronologies, and supporting documents, and identifying and closing documentation gaps
- Prepare clear, defensible claim narratives, briefing materials, and negotiation support, working with Legal and project teams
- Assess change-related documents for commercial impact, entitlement issues, scope growth, and risk exposure, and drive commercial review comments through to disposition
- Maintain the notice and contractual deadline trackers, flagging upcoming notice requirements and key dates in time for the project to act on them
- Produce reports, dashboards, and executive-level summaries giving leadership a current view of the project's commercial position, and pursue overdue actions directly with responsible functions
- Coordinate commercial issue reviews, confirming ownership of actions and deadlines, and support periodic reviews with Project Controls so that commercial matters are reflected in forecast, trend, and change management processes
Key requirements- Experience in contract administration, commercial management, claims administration, contract compliance, subcontracts, or project controls, with a track record of managing issues independently
- Practical understanding of how contract language operates, including compliance, documentation, change orders, claims, and project risk
- Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to manage multiple issues, priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders, and maintain the registers, trackers, and reports supporting them
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare structured narratives and executive-level summaries and present them to project leadership
- Strong Microsoft 365 capability, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to work effectively across project disciplines and organisational levels, including in hybrid or distributed team environments, with strong follow-through in obtaining input from others
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Finance, Law, or a related field, or equivalent experience with a relevant professional qualification or certification
- Typically 8-12 years of relevant industry experience
- Experience on large capital, EPC, industrial, LNG, energy, or infrastructure projects preferred
- Attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Organizational and multitasking abilities
- Contract administration
- Claims administration
- Change order assessment
