Senior Contracts Engineer

Petroleum Development Oman is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman. The Company delivers the majority of the country's crude oil production and natural gas supply.

• Plan, organize, manage and execute contract engineering activities from initial strategy development to award and follow up the post award contract management phases for all contracts in portfolio, in order to achieve established short and long term smooth running of the contracts, mitigate potential claims, manage ACV and variations and meeting the contractual duration, hence realising contract profitability (in terms of early production) and market competitiveness.
• Structure and develop a selection of commercial models based on the value drivers of project and shareholders through global benchmarks/best practices, innovative new models and economical/cashflow analysis to provide recommendations.
• Translate commercial models to contractual documents and being able to identify the interconnectivity of the commercial models throughout the contract (not just the remuneration schedule or schedule of rates).

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Operations Management, Quantity Surveying, Economics, Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years of work experience in Contract Engineering, Finance, Corporate Planning, Economics, Commercial roles or equivalent.

• Maintain HSE as priority through compliance to PDO house rule, PDO HSE golden rules and PDO LSR (life saving rules).
• Independently manage the full sourcing process from strategy development and implementation through prequalification, tendering up to award of contracts taking into account in-country value including constructive challenge of existing processes and procedures, timely involvement of PDO boards and stakeholders views and suggestions through tender board presentations with the aim of having a complete, clear and unambiguous tender document that will form the base for the final contract document.
• Advice and support PDO end users in order to ensure that all parties share a common goal and understanding and CP latest standard documents are used and Procedures and Guidelines are strictly abided to in the whole sourcing process and post-award contract management with the aim of running the operations ethically and efficiently.
• Develop and execute pre and post award contract management plans, KPIs and workshops with stakeholders to ensure that the post award contract phase is managed effectively and drive business improvements.
• Support the development of and challenge the technical evaluation models and independently develop commercial evaluation models and ensure that the evaluation models are accurate and complete, and evaluations are carried out in accordance with agreed process and drive CP procedures to engage tender board(s) and award to the right bidder.
• Liaise and challenge the Contract Holder team and other concerned stakeholders to manage and execute contract changes, variations and claims in order to avoid progress interruptions, extensions of time, failure to meet contract obligations and avoid unnecessary cost overruns.
• Set-up and maintain all contracts, variations and related documents in Omnicom and upload contracts and variations in SAP in order to record all live contracts including completed and closed contracts for future references and audits.
• Identify areas of improvement in CP process implementation in general, contracts management in particular and value identification and realization and actively participate in meetings with customers and contracts' related workshops in order to keep track of all the processes and drive improvements.
• Support and coach Contract Analyst, Contract Engineer, other C&P staff and all relevant stakeholders in order to help towards development of in-house talent to enable to meet current and future challenges.
• Provide analytical assessments and analysis in cashflow or economical models in order to assess proposals or to develop proposals
• Sound understanding of oil and gas business in order to identify opportunities and or threats across the value chain.

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