Contracts & Claims Manager

Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an experienced Contracts & Claims Manager to join our team on a major railway program in the UAE. In this role, you will lead contract administration, change control, claims assessment, and commercial support across multiple project packages. You will work closely with technical, project controls, and commercial teams to protect the Client’s contractual interests and ensure payments, variations, claims, and extensions of time are assessed accurately, consistently, and in accordance with the contract.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead contract administration, change control, and claims management across assigned project packages.
• Review and assess contractor notices, variations, claims, payment applications, and extension-of-time submissions.
• Evaluate contractual entitlement, causation, delay, disruption, quantum, and programme impacts using contract provisions and contemporaneous project records.
• Coordinate technical, planning, cost, and commercial inputs to support contractual assessments and recommendations.
• Prepare and support contractual correspondence, instructions, determinations, and payment recommendations.
• Maintain accurate change, claims, correspondence, and commercial registers with clear and traceable reporting.
• Work closely with project controls teams to assess critical-path impacts, mitigation measures, and recovery strategies.
• Identify emerging contractual and commercial risks and advise project leadership on appropriate mitigation and resolution strategies.
• Support negotiations, dispute avoidance, and settlement of contractual and commercial issues.
• Ensure consistent contract administration and commercial governance across multiple project packages.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline from a recognized institution.
• Minimum 13 years of relevant experience, including significant contracts and claims experience on major railway or transportation infrastructure projects.
• Minimum 7 years of design and/or construction experience in the rail sector, where applicable.
• Previous experience in the same or an equivalent position on at least one major railway or transportation infrastructure project of comparable scale and complexity.
• Strong knowledge of design-and-build contracts, variations, payment certification, claims, and extension-of-time assessment.
• Demonstrated experience assessing entitlement, delay, disruption, causation, and quantum.
• Good working knowledge of internationally recognized forms of contract, preferably FIDIC, and dispute avoidance practices.
• Strong contractual drafting, negotiation, analytical, and commercial management capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary engineering, project controls, commercial, and client teams.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
• Professional chartership or membership with a recognized institution such as RICS, CIOB, ICE, or equivalent.
• Previous experience managing contracts and claims across multi-package rail programs.
• Experience supporting dispute avoidance, negotiation, and commercial settlement on complex infrastructure projects.

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