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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 customer’s 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 Vernova’s 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 project’s contractual focal point for formal communications with the customer, partners, subcontractors, and major suppliers.
- Support project leadership in protecting GE Vernova’s 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.
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