Owns commercial contracting and lifecycle governance for complex electrical infrastructure, energy, EPC, and design-build projects. Supports pre-award pursuits, contract reviews, negotiations, project handoffs, commercial risk, change management, claims documentation, payment and schedule impacts, subcontract flow-downs, and closeout. Coordinates Sales, Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Estimating, and Project Management while improving workflows, templates, dashboards, training, and contract-management tools.
Position SummaryABM Energy & Power Solutions (EPS) is seeking an experienced Contracts Manager - Capital Projects to support the execution of complex electrical infrastructure, energy, and design-build projects.
The Contracts Manager will provide commercial contracting leadership across the full project lifecycle - from receipt of a proposed customer agreement and pre-award negotiations through execution and closeout. Serving as the primary commercial contracting resource for Sales and a risk-based resource for Operations, this role will coordinate cross-functional reviews, maintain contracting discipline, confirm proposal-to-contract alignment, and ensure a complete handoff to project teams. Legal will retain responsibility for legal interpretation, legal approvals, and material legal matters.Essential FunctionsPre-Award Contracting & Commercial Coordination
The Contracts Manager will provide commercial contracting leadership across the full project lifecycle - from receipt of a proposed customer agreement and pre-award negotiations through execution and closeout. Serving as the primary commercial contracting resource for Sales and a risk-based resource for Operations, this role will coordinate cross-functional reviews, maintain contracting discipline, confirm proposal-to-contract alignment, and ensure a complete handoff to project teams. Legal will retain responsibility for legal interpretation, legal approvals, and material legal matters.Essential FunctionsPre-Award Contracting & Commercial Coordination
- Serve as the primary commercial contracting resource supporting Sales from receipt of a proposed customer agreement through contract execution.
- Coordinate cross-functional reviews and maintain redlines, issue lists, risk summaries, negotiation matrices, decisions, approvals, version control, and a clear audit trail.
- Establish owners, track outstanding actions and dependencies, and drive open items toward timely resolution.
- Identify and escalate material commercial and operational risks while referring legal interpretations, legal approvals, and material legal matters to Legal.
- Support negotiation strategy and customer contract discussions and confirm alignment with the approved scope, pricing, schedule, assumptions, exclusions, clarifications, and supplier commitments.
- Facilitate a complete handoff of negotiated obligations, commercial positions, and open commitments to the project execution team.
- Establish and continuously improve contract-review processes, workflows, templates, controls, and decision records across the contract lifecycle.
- Evaluate and implement contract-management tools and provide concise reporting on cycle time, open risks, approvals, and agreements approaching execution.
- Translate executed agreements into concise contract summaries, obligation matrices, and project kickoff requirements.
- Provide risk-based post-award contract support, prioritizing strategic, complex, or higher-risk projects and material commercial events while enabling project teams to administer routine obligations consistently.
- Partner with Project Managers to identify changes, delays, directives, differing conditions, and other entitlement events; support timely notices and change-order documentation.
- Monitor pending or unapproved changes and escalate material commercial exposure before significant out-of-scope work proceeds.
- Support claims documentation, event chronologies, entitlement positions, and coordination with Legal on material disputes and contract interpretations.
- Partner with Supply Chain and Project Management to align major subcontract and supplier obligations with prime-contract requirements.
- Connect contractual events and changes with project cost, schedule, forecast, and monthly risk reporting.
- Support final changes, releases, warranties, lien waivers, final account reconciliation, and other contractual closeout requirements.
- Capture lessons learned and provide structured feedback to Sales, Estimating, Operations, Supply Chain, and Legal to improve future contract positions, pricing assumptions, and risk allocation.
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- Five (5)+ years of experience in construction contract administration, commercial management, project controls, project management, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience supporting pre-award contract review and negotiation and administering commercial construction, electrical infrastructure, EPC, or design-build contracts.
- Working knowledge of redlines, approvals, change orders, notices, claims, payment provisions, warranties, bonding, insurance, and contract closeout.
- Ability to interpret complex contracts, identify commercial and operational implications, and translate requirements into clear actions for Sales and project teams.
- Strong written communication, organization, negotiation, and cross-functional stakeholder-management skills.
- JD (Juris Doctor) from a credited law school is preferred
- Experience within electrical construction, power, energy infrastructure, BESS, distributed generation, microgrids, EV infrastructure, switchgear, or other complex capital-project environments.
- Experience supporting customer contract negotiations and administering EPC and/or design-build agreements.
- Experience with major equipment procurement and supplier contracts.
- Familiarity with AIA, Consensus, customized contract forms, and contract-management systems; CCM, CPCM/NCMA, PMP, or similar certification is a plus.
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