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Contract Specialist

Role overview

Summary

The Contract Specialist supports Buy-Side activities for Engineered Equipment purchases and CAPEX projects within the GSI Contract Management team. This role focuses on risk allocation, contract alignment, and managing supplier claims, while also contributing to training and standardizing processes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Law, Finance, or similar.
  • Solid experience in contract management and/or procurement contract management in complex infrastructure projects.
  • Strong understanding of construction and installation and procurement contracts.
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken).
  • Preferred: Strong coordination and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Interpret prime contracts and ensure flow-down obligations are incorporated into subcontracts.
  • Develop and structure contracting strategies based on project scope and risk exposure.
  • Conduct risk-adjusted bid evaluations and optimize cash flow terms.
  • Manage complex supplier and subcontractor claims affecting multiple projects.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Collaboration
  • Prioritization
  • Analytical Skills
  • Detail Oriented

About the company

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GE Vernova

  • Utilities & Power
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Building on over 130 years of experience, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy – electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.

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Job description

Job Description Summary

The Contracting Specialist joins the GSI Contract Management team, reporting to the GSI Contract Management Leader, and supports Buy-Side activities for Engineered Equipment purchases, construction and installation services, and CAPEX projects. The role ensures robust risk allocation, back-to-back alignment between main contracts and subcontracts, and strong commercial protection. Key responsibilities include interpreting prime contracts and flow-down obligations, structuring contracting models, running risk-adjusted bid evaluations, and optimizing cash flow through payment terms and milestones. The role also manages complex and strategic supplier and subcontractor claims, especially those affecting multiple projects. In addition, the Specialist shares lessons learned, delivers training, and helps standardize Buy-Side processes and templates.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:


  • Interpret Prime and Customer Contracts and ensure mandatory flow-down obligations are properly incorporated into subcontracts.
  • Ensure full contractual alignment between main agreements and subcontract terms.
  • Review contract documentation packages for completeness, consistency, and readiness prior to award.
  • Develop and structure contracting strategies based on project scope maturity and risk exposure.
  • Manage contractual risks, exceptions, carve-outs, and commercial negotiations, escalating only high-risk matters.
  • Assess scope definition, constructability, sequencing, and productivity assumptions to support sound commercial decisions.
  • Conduct risk-adjusted bid evaluations, optimize cash flow terms, and drive value-based procurement outcomes.
  • Lead strategic claims management, contracting best practices, training initiatives, and the standardization of buy-side contracting processes and methodologies.

Required Qualification:


  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (preferably electrical or civil engineering), Law, Finance, or similar.
  • Solid experience in contract management and/or procurement contract management in complex infrastructure projects.
  • Confirmed site exposure as site contract manager or construction contract manager a plus.
  • Strong understanding of construction and installation and procurement contracts, interfacing constraints, contracting models, and risk allocation.
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken).
  • Strong coordination and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple functional teams.
  • Strong prioritization skills and capacity to work under pressure
  • Analytical, autonomous, and detail-oriented, with sound commercial judgment.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position

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