Sr. Construction Contract Manager

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 customers 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 Vernovas 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 projects contractual focal point for formal communications with the customer partners subcontractors and major suppliers.

- Support project leadership in protecting GE Vernovas 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

- Bachelors 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 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

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

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position the pay range for this position is between $150100.00 and $250000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110% 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience education and skill set.

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on October 04 2026.

Available benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability benefits life insurance 12 paid holidays and permissive time off.

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually GE Vernova) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

Required Experience:

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