Senior Contract Administrator - Saudi National

Role Overview

Contract Administration

• Administer construction, consultancy, and design contracts.
• Monitor compliance, notices, obligations, milestones, bonds, insurance, and other contractual requirements.
• Manage variations and change control from identification through implementation.
• Review PVNs, PVRs, change orders, variation orders, claims, and supporting substantiation.
• Assess entitlement, cost, programme impacts, extensions of time, disruption, prolongation, acceleration, and additional costs.
• Review payment applications and coordinate certification with quantity surveying and cost management teams.
• Prepare contractual assessments, recommendations, notices, letters, instructions, and commercial correspondence.
• Maintain contract, variation, claims, and action registers and provide commercial reporting.
• Coordinate with project stakeholders and support amendments, extensions, close-out, and final accounts.

Required Qualifications

• At least 15 years of relevant contract administration or commercial experience.
• Experience with a PMC, client, consultant, or major contractor.
• Strong knowledge of FIDIC and bespoke construction or consultancy contracts.
• Proven experience with variations, claims, extensions of time, payment, negotiations, and contractual risk management.
• GCC or Middle East experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, another Engineering field, Quantity Surveying, or a related field.

Professional Skills

• Strong contractual and commercial judgment and knowledge of contract administration and change management.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, stakeholder management, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to independently manage complex contractual matters and multiple competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and contractual record keeping.

Location

• The position is based in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.