Senior Project EPC Contract Engineer

• JOB TITLE: Senior Project EPC Contract Engineer
• CLIENT: Global Energy Operator – TOTAL ENERGIES
• LOCATION: Paris, France
• ASSIGNMENT TYPE: Residential Contract Role
• START DATE: ASAP
• CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 Month Annual Renewable Contract
• SCHEDULE: Monday to Friday/ 5 days a week/ 8 Hours a day

PROJECT CONTEXT

Typical EPC Package Project spent: 50M$ up to 3B$ CAPEX, with high complexity, for the different TotalEnergies branches (E&P, RC, GRP)

-Extensive transversal management of internal to C&P TotalEnergies (TGP) entities (Categories, Legal,..) and external entities (Line products, Projects, Technical Entities)

-Role of representation of TGP project entity towards the projects and affiliates, in particular during some committees (Local contract committees for instance, shareholders, suppliers meetings,…)

-Single Point of Contact and contract referent for designated projects, as required

GOALS AND DELIVERABLES

ACTIVITIES

The activities deal with worldwide Contract Engineering and Administration but also Claims Management (including Contractor and Company claims and disputes) as detailed below:

1- Senior contract engineer for designated projects supported by PJE/AP:

• Provide support for all contract and procurement activities required by the designated capital project(s),
• Be able to advise and execute on more complex forms of CFT’s: CCFT, OBE/OBT, FEED+, etc.
• Develop the CFT package: commercial structure, contract terms, etc.
• Evaluate commercial aspects of the bids and recommend award,
• Claim Preventive awareness (contract management methods, tendering stage and early execution stage),
• Support project team to obtain relevant approvals and/or to go through any kind of gates.

2- Senior referent for some Projects contract engineering:

• Participate in defining and coordinating the contract methods for the entity (Contract toolbox, Competence requirement for contract engineers, expertise requirement, evaluation quiz...),
• Participate in coaching the contract engineers of the entity (Assistance, advice, training...),
• Ensure Governance is followed for Contracts process on projects of his/her perimeter (CFT, RTA, approvals),
• Ensure recurrent contacts with the contract engineers/managers of the Projects of his/her perimeter,
• Represent TGP/PJE in different types of Project Reviews for the contractual subjects.

3- Coordination with TGP/JUR

• Participate to the overall coordination with TGP/JUR/PJE: information sharing, coordination of actions for the on-going projects of his/her perimeter…
• Contribute to ensure coherence between PJE, JUR/PJE and Project’s needs.

4- Trainer for some training sessions dedicated to contract within Projects (as ICOP for instance).

5- as required, the incumbent may be requested to be the Single point of contacts for some designated projects (SPOC) (all branches E&P, RC, GRP).

6- Assist and/or participate in Claim Management or Counterclaim process:Analysis and review of existing Contracts/Claims: provide expertise support to projects for existing Contracts/Claims and corresponding resolution (contracts execution phase / close out phase):

• Advise and direct the projects for “on the spot requests” with regards to management of claims,
• Investigate and assess merit of major claim/dispute,
• Provide higher understanding and recommendations for building the Claim dossiers and corresponding settlement,
• Assist the project in drafting correspondences and notices to Contractors.

7- Contribute continuously to Contracts REX/Lessons Learnt consolidation. For each of the dossier, is starting by screening the existing REX and when completing a dossier preparing main lessons learnt to be shared with other contract engineers and to be archived.

SKILLS:

• Ability to influence & manage in transversal
• Knowledge of project phases including some experience as package contract engineers
• Claim Management
• Sharing of information/lessons learnt and communication skills
• EPC contract professional (15 years dedicated to Projects)
• Communication, influencing and networking skills
• Ability to work with complexity and challenging stakeholders
• Contract preparation, CFT, negotiation, administration
• Ability to manage heavy workload in a fast paced environment