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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nParsons 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.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nLead contract administration, change control, and claims management across assigned project packages.\nReview and assess contractor notices, variations, claims, payment applications, and extension-of-time submissions.\nEvaluate contractual entitlement, causation, delay, disruption, quantum, and programme impacts using contract provisions and contemporaneous project records.\nCoordinate technical, planning, cost, and commercial inputs to support contractual assessments and recommendations.\nPrepare and support contractual correspondence, instructions, determinations, and payment recommendations.\nMaintain accurate change, claims, correspondence, and commercial registers with clear and traceable reporting.\nWork closely with project controls teams to assess critical-path impacts, mitigation measures, and recovery strategies.\nIdentify emerging contractual and commercial risks and advise project leadership on appropriate mitigation and resolution strategies.\nSupport negotiations, dispute avoidance, and settlement of contractual and commercial issues.\nEnsure consistent contract administration and commercial governance across multiple project packages.\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline from a recognized institution.\nMinimum 13 years of relevant experience, including significant contracts and claims experience on major railway or transportation infrastructure projects.\nMinimum 7 years of design and/or construction experience in the rail sector, where applicable.\nPrevious experience in the same or an equivalent position on at least one major railway or transportation infrastructure project of comparable scale and complexity.\nStrong knowledge of design-and-build contracts, variations, payment certification, claims, and extension-of-time assessment.\nDemonstrated experience assessing entitlement, delay, disruption, causation, and quantum.\nGood working knowledge of internationally recognized forms of contract, preferably FIDIC, and dispute avoidance practices.\nStrong contractual drafting, negotiation, analytical, and commercial management capabilities.\nExcellent written and verbal English communication and reporting skills.\nAbility to work effectively with multidisciplinary engineering, project controls, commercial, and client teams.\nWhat Desired Skills You'll Bring\nMaster’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.\nProfessional chartership or membership with a recognized institution such as RICS, CIOB, ICE, or equivalent.\nPrevious experience managing contracts and claims across multi-package rail programs.\nExperience supporting dispute avoidance, negotiation, and commercial settlement on complex infrastructure projects.\nParsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! 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