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Sr. Construction Contract Manager at GE Vernova in Phoenix
Job Description
Sr. Construction Contract Manager
Location: Phoenix
Job Description Summary
GE Vernova is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Contract Manager to support execution of a major hydropower project in the United States. Based on the customer’s site, this role will serve as a key member of the project leadership team and will lead post-award contract management and commercial administration across the full project lifecycle, including engineering, procurement, manufacturing, delivery, installation, commissioning, turnover, and warranty.This position is intended for a senior project professional who can integrate contract management, commercial discipline, schedule awareness, change management, risk tracking, and project controls coordination in a highly complex delivery environment. The successful candidate will partner closely with project management, planning, construction, sourcing, finance, legal, and technical teams to protect GE Vernova’s contractual position and support disciplined project execution.
Given the scale and complexity of the project, this role requires strong experience managing major construction interfaces, schedule and milestone exposure, formal notice and change processes, supplier and subcontractor coordination, and event-based commercial documentation.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Contract Administration and Commercial Leadership
- Lead post-award administration of the prime contract and related project agreements from notice to proceed through final closeout and warranty.
- Interpret contractual rights, obligations, assumptions, exclusions, deliverables, milestones, and remedies, and communicate their implications clearly to the project team.
- Establish and maintain project contract management procedures, including correspondence protocols, notice requirements, change control workflows, and internal escalation paths.
- Serve as the project’s contractual focal point for formal communications with the customer, partners, subcontractors, and major suppliers.
- Support project leadership in protecting GE Vernova’s commercial position while maintaining clear, professional, and factual communication.
Change Management, Claims, and Notices
- Lead the preparation, review, and administration of contractual notices, change requests, amendments, claims, reservations of rights, and other formal project correspondence.
- Identify events that may give rise to cost or schedule entitlement, including delays, disruption, acceleration, incomplete predecessor work, late customer information, third-party interface failures, and scope changes.
- Coordinate development of substantiation packages, claim narratives, chronologies, and supporting documentation in collaboration with planning, site management, sourcing, finance, and legal teams.
- Evaluate and manage customer-facing and supplier/subcontractor-facing claims, including affirmative and defensive positions.
- Maintain comprehensive notices, changes, and claims registers with status, ownership, due dates, and estimated commercial and schedule impacts.
Interface Management and Dependency Control
- Monitor contractual and commercial interfaces among GE Vernova, SRP, civil/EPC contractors, erection subcontractors, major suppliers, and other third parties.
- Track dependencies affecting GE Vernova scope, including access conditions, design inputs, embedded parts, controls and protection interfaces, balance-of-plant interfaces, and predecessor/successor work.
- Identify, document, and escalate interface issues that may affect cost, schedule, productivity, quality, or entitlement.
- Support development and maintenance of interface matrices, responsibility mapping, and cross-functional issue resolution processes.
Schedule, Milestones, and Project Controls Integration
- Work closely with the project planner and project controls team to ensure contractual milestones, float consumption, progress measurement, recovery plans, and delay events are properly monitored and documented.
- Support assessment of critical path impacts, milestone slippage, schedule change, disruption, acceleration, and liquidated damages exposure.
- Help ensure schedule updates and progress reporting are aligned with contract requirements and defensible project records.
- Contribute to trend and forecast discussions by translating project events into commercial and contractual implications.
- Support milestone verification and payment-related documentation as required by the contract.
Procurement, Supplier, and Subcontractor Commercial Support
- Support review and administration of subcontract and purchase order terms to ensure proper flow-down of prime contract obligations, quality requirements, schedule commitments, and documentation requirements.
- Coordinate with sourcing and procurement teams on supplier and subcontractor change requests, delay issues, back charges, claims, and performance disputes.
- Support site leadership in the commercial administration of erection and construction subcontractors.
- Monitor supplier and subcontractor obligations, deliverables, interfaces, and remedies throughout execution.
Risk Management and Governance
- Participate actively in project risk and opportunity management, with emphasis on commercial, contractual, interface, schedule, and execution risks.
- Maintain a commercial risk and issues log and support mitigation planning with accountable owners and due dates.
- Provide early warning and objective escalation of issues that could materially affect cost, schedule, margin, quality, customer relationship, or project outcomes.
- Support compliance with company procedures, delegated authorities, audit requirements, and recordkeeping standards.
- Coordinate with legal, finance, and project leadership on dispute avoidance and resolution strategies when needed.
Reporting, Records, and Closeout
- Maintain robust contemporaneous project records to support change, claim, payment, and dispute positions.
- Prepare regular commercial status reports summarizing notices, changes, claims, key correspondence, unresolved issues, major risks, and upcoming deadlines.
- Support invoicing and payment administration by verifying contractual milestones, supporting documentation, and entitlement positions.
- Lead or support commercial aspects of turnover, punch list closeout, final account settlement, release management, contract closeout, and warranty issue tracking.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Business, Law or a related field or 10+ managing large-scale infrastructure construction projects with presence at site.
- Significant experience in contract management, commercial management, project controls, or related project delivery roles on large industrial, power, hydro, tunneling, mining, or other complex EPC / construction projects.
- Demonstrated post-award contract administration experience on major field execution projects with multiple interfaces and high documentation rigor.
- Proven experience managing change orders, claims, contractual notices, and formal correspondence on active construction projects.
- Experience working closely with planning and project controls teams on delay analysis, schedule entitlement, milestone administration, and cost/schedule impacts.
- Experience supporting supplier and subcontractor commercial management, including flow-down obligations, change management, and dispute resolution.
Preferred Experience
- Experience on hydroelectric, pumped storage, heavy civil, underground, or other major energy infrastructure projects strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with complex delivery models such as EPC, supply-and-install, construction management, or split-scope project structures.
- Experience in long-duration projects involving engineering, procurement, site construction, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
- Experience working in owner-contractor-partner environments with complex interface management requirements.
Technical and Functional Skills
- Strong understanding of construction and project contract administration principles, including risk allocation, notice requirements, remedies, and claims substantiation.
- Working knowledge of schedule logic, critical path concepts, milestone management, float, and delay/disruption considerations.
- Strong written communication skills, with ability to draft precise contractual notices, claims, meeting records, and executive summaries.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to manage registers, obligations, due dates, and large volumes of project documentation.
- Ability to exercise sound commercial judgment grounded in contract language, project facts, and documented evidence.
- Proficiency with common project controls, reporting, and document management systems.
Leadership and Working Style
- Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed project environment with competing priorities and evolving facts.
- Collaborative and confident in working across project management, engineering, planning, construction, sourcing, finance, and legal functions.
- Proactive in identifying emerging risks and disciplined in driving early action and clear escalation.
- Committed to factual, well-documented, and solution-oriented commercial management.
Location and Travel
- Primary location: customer site.
- Travel may be required from time to time to contractor locations, supplier facilities, and other project-related locations.
- Must be able to work effectively in active construction environments, including uneven terrain, outdoor conditions, and other site-specific conditions associated with major infrastructure projects.
Safety and Compliance
- Strong commitment to environmental, health, and safety performance and compliance with all project site requirements.
- Ability to obtain and maintain required project and site access credentials, safety training, and certifications.
- MSHA certification or ability to obtain project-required safety credentials is preferred, as applicable.
Why Join This Project
This is an opportunity to play a key commercial and contractual leadership role on one of the most significant pumped storage developments in North America. In this position, you will help shape project outcomes by ensuring that contract requirements are understood, project events are identified and documented early, interfaces are actively managed, and risks are translated into timely action. Your work will directly support disciplined execution, commercial transparency, and successful delivery across a complex, high-value energy infrastructure project.
Reporting Relationship
This role is expected to operate as a core member of the project leadership team, with close day-to-day alignment to project leadership and functional coordination with contract management leadership.
Equal Opportunity Statement
GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other status protected by applicable law.
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No