Senior Contract Engineer

The project is a Deep Water Condensate Development situated offshore Nigeria. The field development comprises a spread moored FPSO connected to sub sea wells (44) with condensate export (175 KBOPD) via offloading buoy, with partial gas export via pipeline to facilities

Purpose of Service:
The scope of the service comprises the engineering of drilling, field operations and logistics contracts related to the Field development and production operations.

Scope of Service:
Pre-contract (from ITT to contract award)
• Ensure that the tender processes are in compliance with Project procedures and particularly the relevant rules involved in Tendering for contracts in Nigeria

• Ensure that call for tender documentation and contract documentation comply with company procedures
• Maintain a tracking of the development of each contract from pre-qualification through CFT, approvals and award
• Manage the post contract administration of awarded contracts, including certificates, change orders and closeout dossiers
• Provide advice to Operational managers to resolve contractual, commercial and administrative issues

Post-Contract (from contract award to contract closeout)
• Provide advice to the Company representative on contractual issues, and prepare / validate all contractual correspondence
• Analyse requests for change orders, and prepare / validate change order documents where appropriate
• Ensure all contractual certificates and guarantees by Contractor are in place and in the due time
• Prepare the certificates to be issued to Contractor by Company in accordance with the contract
• Coordinate the processing of Contractor’s monthly applications for payment, and verifying invoice submissions
• Prepare the contract close out documentation in line with Company procedure

Contracts Database
• Establishing and maintain an overall project contract database which tracks existence and the evolution of contracts, change orders, certificates and the like

Essential qualifications / experience:
• A MINIMUM of 8 -10 years of contracts experience (BOTH pre and post contract award) within Projects and operations in the Oil & Gas sector
• English fluent

Duration - Long Term
Rotation - Residential

Status: Contract
Minimum Experience: 2 years
Location: Lagos, NIGERIA
Expiry date: 26 Feb 2010
Ipedex UK Ltd - Part of SPIE Oil and Gas Services Ref. No.: 10-02/112

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