Coordinator Professional Services Contracts

Who Can Apply?:
**Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)**
- Salary Range:
**$91,826 - $119,370**
- Employment status:
**Continuing**
- Term Length:

- Security Level:
**Reliability**
- Language Requirement:
**English Essential**
- Closing Date:
**18/09/2025**
- Country:
**Canada**

**Incumbent will be expected to travel to Cold Lake to attend contract meetings, site visits, and support other contract related activities as required. Anticipate approximately one trip per month**

The Coordinator, Professional Services Contracts, manages and administers high-risk and high-value professional services contracts. The incumbent manages contract-related risks, manages multiple contracts, as required, and provides regular reports to supervisors and the Client-Partners. The incumbent manages the contract cost, scope and schedule. In addition, the incumbent monitors submissions and coordinates the review of consultant deliverables to confirm compliance with the contract. The incumbent also manages the Client-Partner relationship and consultant performance, documents key communications with consultants and keeps Client-Partner project managers apprised of contract risks and status.

**KEY AND PERIODIC ACTIVITIES**
**The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive**:
**Primary**
- Manage multiple contracts and competing priorities, as required
- Provide support to and coordinate work with other service lines. (e.g. on pre-tender reviews)
- Prepare estimates and negotiate costs for additional contract scope
- Ensure consultant deliverables comply with contract requirements (e.g. review invoices, statements of work, deliverables)
- Carry out quality assurance for contract work and write contract performance reviews
- Track and monitor schedule, including all milestone deliverables
- Manage the financial aspects of the contract and payment certification
- Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the Client-Partners and/or stakeholders
- Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate and Client-Partner expectations
- Manage risks associated with contracts

**Other**
- Review statements of work for problems related to contract management
- Visit construction sites, and coordinate construction-phase activities and performance with construction coordinators
- Ensure consultant work complies with health and safety, industrial security and environmental requirements
- Other duties as assigned

**SKILLS**

**General and Specific Knowledge**
- Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in professional services
- Estimate fees for professional services contracts
- Construction products and materials
- Procurement mechanisms, contract law and consultant bidding process
- Design process and typical deliverables (e.g. pre-design, schematic design, design development, construction documents)
- Project, contract and risk management principles
- Health and safety management

**Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience**
- ** Minimum**: college diploma in engineering, architecture or related field with five years’ relevant experience, or the equivalent
- ** Preferred**: certification in applicable field (e.g. Project Management Professional, Certified Engineering Technologist)

**Abilities**
- Use applicable computer software and operating systems

**DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP**
- Provides functional direction and advice to employees and to Client-Partners

**WORKING CONDITIONS**
- Typical office environment with occasional travel
- Some work may be located on construction sites; incumbent may occasionally be required to wear basic safety equipment

**CHECK OUT YOUR BENEFITS**
Working with us offers excellent opportunities for growth and advancement—and entitles you to one of the job market’s best benefits packages valued at between 25 and 30% of your salary.

**Your package includes**:
Health and Wellness
- 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, and health and dental premiums
- $400 wellness allowance to help cover expenses such as a gym membership
- $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage
- Telus Virtual Health Care and $750 Health Care Spending Account for some expenses not covered under provincial plans

Home and Family
- Life, accidental-death, and short-term disability insurance
- Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
- Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for up to 37 weeks
- Flexible workplace options, including $400 allowance every two years, to support working from home

To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada (DCC), you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada. As a condition of employment with DCC, a minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance.
- DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process_