Contracts Administrator

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Project Overview:

Yanacocha Water Treatment Plant (WTP):

Located 800 km northeast of Lima, Peru, Yanacocha is South America’s largest gold mine. The WTP Project consists of two of the largest acid water treatment plants in South America (the West one with capacity of 3,000 m3/hour and the East one with 2,700 m3/hour). Early works are currently being performed on site, preparing the permanent platforms and laydown areas for the East and West plants, in addition to the Class 2 estimate, Level 3 schedule and Execution Plan.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that the contractor meets all safety and quality requirements of the project, supervising and verifying the contractor's progress reports, coordinating the contractor's movements on the site, participating in all planning activities together with the contractor and actively contributing to the generation of contractor's means, methods, and recovery plans, as appropriate.

Major Responsibilities:

• Monitoring areas of contract performance, as assigned.
• Administrating assigned contracts, maintaining a continual review of progress and providing management with information regarding projected financial or technical difficulties.
• Leading meetings, presentations, and training sessions. Preparing periodic status reports for management.
• Administrating moderate to complex contract changes by negotiating with customer personnel and obtaining settlement.
• Coordinating with designated staff on operational activities affecting contractual rights and obligations, contract performance, contract administration, and other major matters.
• Representing Bechtel in contract negotiations.
• Representing Bechtel in contractual discussions of moderate to high levels of complexity.
• Verifying with the implementation of contract formation and administration procedures and the completion.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires a bachelor’s degree and 5-8 years of relevant Contract Formation and/or Contract Administration experience (preferably in mining).

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Formation experience required related to Bid Evaluation and Award (BEA) cycles, considering but not limited to I) Bidder list and package formation, II) Proposal evaluation, III) Meetings leadership between client and bidders, IV) Proposals equalization and V) Mitigate potential contractual deviation between all company’s areas.
• Administration experience required for medium, large, and complex contracts, change management, progress payment reports, commercial and technical report management, claim mitigation and resolution.
• Comprehensive knowledge of contract types, terms, and legal requirements.
• Comprehensive knowledge of law, negotiations, accounting, or cost engineering gained through education or experience.
• Intermediate English level.
• Administrative and organizational skills.
• Oral and written communication skills.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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