Contracts Formation Lead

Requisition ID: 274716

• Relocation Authorized: National - Single
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Jubail

Company Overview:

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the worlds infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact.
We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values – ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants – integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

Position Summary

Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logistical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and its getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company (SABCO) serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more.

Major Responsibilities

Summary:

• Performs all tasks involved in the formation and award of contracts. Communicates with bidders and personnel within Project Team to establish clear definition of requirements and to ensure work complies project and quality requirements.
• Assists in and conducts meetings as needed to perform the work.

Essential Job Duties:

• Develops and issues contracts and services agreements as assigned by performing the following:
  • Prepares bidders’ lists (when required)
  • Pre-qualifies bidders (when required)
  • Assembles bid request packages, reviews, and seeks approval of packages
  • Loads and issues bid request packages into the e-RFP system
  • Coordinates bidders’ questions and answers to those questions
  • Receives bids
  • Evaluates bids commercially (when required)
  • Prepares commercial bid summary and recommendation letter (when required)
  • Recommends and secures approvals in accordance with established procedures
  • Prepares contract documents for execution
  • Prepares and maintains control and status reporting documents
• Prepares and organizes assigned meetings, such as bid clarification and pre-award meetings, for the purpose of ensuring complete understanding and agreement between Bechtel, the client and contractor on all contractual matters. After reviewing plan and agenda with supervisor, conducts meeting and prepares and issues meeting notes delineating important statements, required actions and schedules.
• Assists project team when instructed in solving and attending to administrative problems on commitments involving high monetary expenditure or risk, engineered technical specifications or supplementary commercial conditions.
• Guiding and mentoring more junior staff on project (or government) contracting processes, and tracking progress of bid packages per established schedule/durations.
• Supervising personnel, workload distribution and execution of the work, as well as personnel interviews, selection, performance evaluation, career counseling, etc.

Job Knowledge:

• Knowledge and experience in the formation of contracts and contract agreements, including types, terms and legal requirements.
• Skill in working and communicating effectively, both orally and in writing, with other project functional groups.
• Knowledge of law, negotiations, accounting or cost engineering gained through education or experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of the project functional groups and company policies, procedures and work practices.

Qualifications and Skills:

Essential Technical:

• University degree in Business, Accounting, Engineering, or related field.
• 5 years’ relevant experience in the bid, evaluate and award process of contracts.
• Familiarity with lump sum, unit price and cost-plus type contracts.
• Familiarity with construction, design services and O&M forms of contracts.
• Competency in MS Office suite.

Essential Behavioral:

• Effective oral communication skills.
• Adaptability to differing cultures and environments.
• Effective in guiding and mentoring more junior staff, a team player.
• Overseeing staff work activities and progress.
• Fluent in Arabic and English languages.

Additional Qualifications:

Preferred Technical:

• Previous experience on integrated project(s) with a client.
• Contract administration and/or claims experience.
• Familiarity with government procurement law.
• Familiarity with use of government e-RFP system, Etimad.

Preferred Behavioral:

• Developed business writing skills, including reports statusing work activities.
• Flexibility in adjusting to workload and priorities.
• Comfortable interacting with other departments and varying levels of management.
• Comfortable interfacing with government entities related to government procurement.

Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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