Contract Engineer Job Description

A Contract Engineer is a specialist in the field of engineering, who oversees projects, conducts reviews and studies the legalities of the contract between the client and the engineer and makes sure that all terms of the contract are tended to fairly. A contract engineer also must draft commercial tenders, and also sometimes must estimate the budgets of a specific project, before the administrating or awarding of the contract.

Contract Engineer Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintaining the project and coordinating with other teams in drafting the projects and the budget.
• Facilitating in developing all project-related contract strategies and organizing the list of bidders and inviting the file for tenders.
• Performing all clarifications for contracts meeting and coordinating with the project department and smooth functioning of the project.
• Assisting the departments and evaluating various commercial and technical evaluations.
• A Contract Engineer deals mainly with writing up and preparing the paperwork, and working on the contractual conditions of a project, between the clients and the engineers

Responsibilities and duties

Draft Contracts: Contract Engineers draft and review contracts, often adding or changing clauses according to the specifications of stakeholders.

Handle Issues with Contracts: During each stage of development, problems with contracts can arise, and a contract engineer must be able to allay them.

Keep Records: This includes drawings, field notes, sketches, reference manuals and any other engineering materials and making sure that they are noted in the contract, and that all information is dictated.

Execute Contracts: During the development process, letters must be drafted and signed by various people including clients, subcontractors, project managers and governmental overseers.

Contract Engineer Skills

• Extensive experience in supervising projects to make sure that the contract terms address all of the client’s requirements.
• Sound knowledge of preparing contract close-out documents, monthly reports, intern and final payment applications.
• Solid understanding of various sales and lease contracts and commercial post contracts.
• Skills in managing ODC contracts with PDO is preferable.

Competences that are specific to contract engineers are:

• Contract management – the ability to draft, alter and draw up numerous contracts for clients.
• Project management – having detailed knowledge within the engineering and contracting business is a must, as it helps in identifying problems, and contributing to solutions related to the project.
• Contractor billing and rate analysis – contract engineers are in charge of calculating the project costs, investments, commercial bids as well as contractor payment and rates.
• Tender preparation – preparing various offers for clients before contractual agreements are set.
• Expert mathematical skills – many of the duties for a contract engineer is calculating projected project costs, commercial bids, tenders as well as salaries.

Education/Experience Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

15-20 years of experience