Job Description
About Us: At Clark Bros, Inc., we pride ourselves on being a trusted leader in the construction industry with over 65 years of success.
As a heavy civil construction company, we are dedicated to driving sustainable change within the water, power, and renewable energy resources industries and improving communities along the way. Our team is built on a foundation of excellence, collaboration, and a steadfast commitment to safety, and our unique culture encourages independent ideas and problem-solving with ingenuity, purpose, and grit. As a company focused on building a better future, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, along with ample opportunities for career development.
Join our team to be part of a company that is actively shaping the future, and that values your contributions, prioritizes your safety, and supports your purpose – whatever it may be.
Position Summary: The Contract Administrator is responsible for overseeing the contract negotiation and execution process from project award through execution of the contract. This role ensures accuracy, mitigates risk, and supports operational and financial performance by managing a wide range of agreements, including prime contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, and lease agreements. The position involves coordinating contract reviews, maintaining organized documentation systems, facilitating communication between stakeholders, and providing ongoing status updates to ensure timely and efficient contract execution.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Manage contracts with customers, vendors, suppliers, and partners throughout the full lifecycle, including drafting, execution, and analysis, to maximize financial and operational performance while minimizing risk.
- Negotiate terms and conditions in contracts and ensure organizational compliance, manage document changes and amendments during final review and execution.
- Assist in receiving, organizing, evaluating, reviewing, and redlining contracts covering a broad range of transactions, including prime contracts, subcontracts, lease agreements, purchase orders, and related engineering, design, procurement, construction, and real estate agreements.
- Create and maintain a centralized contract database and organized file structure for easy access and retrieval of contract documents.
- Communicate and manage the contract review and submittal process, including determining the required level of review based on business unit needs and coordinating with internal teams and attorneys.
- Collaborate with the Preconstruction team on contract and exhibit management for proposals.
- Schedule internal and external calls or meetings as needed to facilitate contract discussions, and take detailed notes to ensure accurate follow-up.
- Work with Project Managers to identify execution deadlines, manage timelines, and support negotiation and execution of Limited Notices to Proceed (LNTP) when required.
- Prepare and distribute monthly contract reports and provide status updates to ensure timely contract execution.
Qualifications and Expectations: - Bachelor’s degree or paralegal training, and significant experience in legal contract review and redlines.
- Experience working with engineering and construction contracts and the construction industry.
- Knowledge of Renewable EPC industry practices and organizational skills is preferred.
- Experience using Sage is preferred.
- Proficient understanding of key contract language and legal risks.
- Ability to read and interpret technical documentation and confirm the presence of required terms and conditions, as well as identify potentially problematic areas.
- Proficiency in the redlining process in Microsoft Word, Excel and PDF formats.
- Effective teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and talent for accuracy and precision.
- Experience and skill in negotiating contract terms and conditions, including both in-person and virtual meetings.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $125,000
This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the Company.
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work,