Contract Administration Lead

Contract Administration Lead - ( 230001AT )

**Description**

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

**Your Opportunity**

We are looking for an experienced Site Supervisor to fulfill the role of Lead Contract Administrator for our Winnipeg Practice. As a Contract Administrator, you will work as part of an integrated and multidiscipline team designing and delivering a wide range of complex projects across Manitoba. Working closely with the project Principal and in collaboration with the Project Architect, Interior Designer, and Engineering leads you will be responsible for leading the Administration of Construction Contracts as part of our services on behalf of our clients, as well as conducting constructability reviews, Contract and Contract Document Reviews, and assist with Design Detail Development.

**Your Key Responsibilities**
- Read and assist with implementing Construction Contracts on behalf of our clients.
- Interpreting contracts and ensuring compliance with contract terms.
- Ensuring GC, CM, or DM provides a construction schedule and schedule of values at the start of construction and reviewing the schedule at each construction meeting to monitor and verify construction progress.
- Reviewing GC, CM, or DM’s performance in maintaining the standards or quality of construction in compliance with the contract terms.
- Provide guidance to the contractor by interpreting the contract documents, answering questions verbally and, when required coordinating and leading the design teams response, issuing necessary documentation, including supplemental instructions, proposed changes, change directives or change orders in order to allow the progress of work on site.
- Lead the analysis and adjustment the contractor’s Payment Application and issuance of Progress Payment Certifications, determining the percentage of the work completed.
- Processing, coordinating, and leading the design teams assessment of Off-site inventory claims.
- Processing, coordinating, and leading the design teams review of Shop Drawings.
- Processing, coordinating, and leading the design teams review of Samples, Mockups, etc.
- Evaluating, coordinating, and leading the design teams responses to GC, CM, or DM trades substitutions.
- Conducting Site Reviews in compliance with provincial/territorial safety regulations and Stantec’s Safety Program, as well as any reasonable additional requirements of the contractor, e.g., personal protective equipment (PPE) such as hard hat, safety shoes, safety glasses, etc. and document construction progress and quality via notes, photographs, and video recordings.
- Promote good communications with the contractor and building officials.
- Negotiating acceptable GC, CM, or DM trades solutions to contract changes and claims.
- Reviewing, coordinating, and obtaining Sealing Professionals Letters of Substantial Performance, Interim Occupancy, and Final Occupancy.
- Processing contract close-outs including coordinating and leading the design teams review of O & M’s, as-builts, deficiency walk through’s and deficiency lists, and 1 year warranty follow up.
- Keep clients well informed of the progress of the work, including issuing Site Observation Reports to the client and all appropriate parties.
- Assist with coordinating building systems throughout.
- Assist with ensuring GC, CM, or DM’s implement the sustainable design requirements identified in the Contract.
- Work with the GC, CM, or DM, Design Team, and Client to realize the design intent/vision.

**Qualifications**

**Your Capabilities and Credentials**
- Excellent verbal, written, and graphic communication skills.
- Humble, driven to achieve Design Excellence Delivered Brilliantly, and collaborative with a High EQ.
- Ability to engage and work within a creative and critical integrated design practice.
- Interest in holistic design, systems thinking, construction, materials, sustainability, and technical design detailing.
- Demonstrated experience administering complex construction contracts.
- Ability to participate in project team settings.
- Excellent knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.
- Demonstrated organizational, administrative, and decision-making skills required to effectively handle changing priorities and project deadlines.
- Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between drawings and specifications.
- Demonstrated ability to co-ordinate the efforts of others to accomplish objectives.
- Demonstrated understanding of Microsoft Office.

**Education and Experience**

15 years managing and delivering construction contracts in Manitoba on project types of similar scale and complexity to the work our practice delivers.
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