• Application Deadline:
• Position: Senior Contract Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 - 8 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Engineering / Technical 
  

Responsibilities

• Verify that the company's Contractual Policies and applicable laws and regulations are adhered to, especially thoserelated to ethics and transparency.


• Verify that Contracts comply with the standards of the company and the agreements with the partners.


• Ensure the application and respect of the procedures in the tender process.


• Work closely with the DUET counterpart to create the contracts dossier, develop a clear definition of contractual responsibilities and discuss the agenda including: Validation of contracts strategy, negotiation and analysis of commercial bids, participation in recommendations to award.


• Adapt standard contract templates to local conditions


• Provide professional advice and guidance to all contract owners/entities with respect to contractual matters


• Liaise with Methods and Performance and Domain Manager for timely reporting (not limited to validate and record savings in Agora) and statistics matters


• Keep informed of best practices in contracts procedures in other entities and affiliates for improvement of contracts practices in the COMPANY.


• Promote the use of frame agreements.


• Prepare and maintain an up-to-date list of qualified contractors/suppliers/potential tenders/contracts with updated information to perform market studies; analyze and assess all possible answers from the market


• Participate in the validation of the contracts strategy through: Arranging and attending Contracts Committee Meetings, common recommendation with duet, pre-qualifying bidders, defining target prices, defining criteria for evaluation, establish CFT commercial documents, etc.


• Prepare and send out the dossiers of pre-consultation for Standard or Complex invitations to bid.


• Verify the alignment with Ethics, Compliance, H3SEQ clauses, Company rules, Procedures, Instructions and applicable legislation when issuing all technical contracts and when drafting contractual and commercial terms and conditions


• Verify the Terms & Conditions (standard, general and financial)


• Create contracts from standard templates (where they exist) or develop one (where template is not available) and create outline agreements in SAP.


• Conduct the Terms & Conditions bid analysis and negotiation for the best interest of COMPANY.


• Conduct the commercial bid analysis and negotiation thereby creating a clear definition of responsibilities and documents together with the DUET


• Take the leading role in recommendations to award presentation to contracts Committee in collaboration with triplet.


• Participate in the signing of formal document after approval from authorities and partners and clarification of rights and obligations of both signing parties according to DOA


• Ensures that own contracts are created and managed in UNISUP and AGORA, ensure effective use of tools and systems (Ariba, NIPEX, REX+, AGORA) for optimum productivity.


• Prepare files for the settlement of lawsuits in relation with the legal, insurance and financial department


• Monitor contractor's performance with Duet, promoting and attending service quality meetings, claims, amendments and contract renewal discussions with contractor and manage and maintain a network with Stakeholders such as NAPIMS, NCDMB, etc.


• Carries out any other duties that may be assigned to him/her from time to time.

Qualification

• A Degree in Engineering, Management or Social Sciences (preferably Supply Chain)


• Membership of relevant professional bodies in the Supply Chain and in Operational functions will be


• an added advantage.


• Proficiency in MS Office Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)


• 5 to 8 years' experience in oil and gas industry of which 3 years should be as a Senior contract Engineer.


• Demonstrable general knowledge and understanding of commercial, legal and insurance issues


• affecting the company in general.


• Strong communication and analytical skills are necessary for a range of complex internal and


• external negotiations.


• Candidate’s ability to learn & be trained quickly on SAP/R3, SAP reporting tool and e-sourcing tool will


• be an added advantage.


• Requires a very good level of coordination, negotiation, interpersonal relationship, conviviality,


• capacity of anticipation, analysis, and synthesis.