Contract Administrator

: SYSTRA Canada is part of the SYSTRA group, an international consulting and engineering group, a world leader in the design of transport infrastructures. SYSTRA Canada is an engineering and consulting firm whose primary focus is to offer transportation solutions, whether for passengers or goods: feasibility studies of building a new railway line, increasing the capacity of the existing infrastructure, privatization of a railway. Understand better who we are by visiting www.systracanada.com. Context: This role will be a part of the DeliveryPpartner consortium on Yonge North Subway Extension embedded into the Client team (Metrolinx). Missions/Main Duties: **Brief description of the functions** The Contract Administrator will be responsible for initiating and leading tasks and processes, taking responsibility and being accountable, where relevant for the work and roles of others whilst exercising broad autonomy and judgement within broad parameters in there are of responsibility. ¢ Responsible to the Lead administrator or Commercial Manager for relevant commercial/ contract administration/ cost aspects of the project. ¢ Ensure that the CA’s/DP’s commercial position is protected using in depth understanding and experience of contractual, commercial, contract administration and cost processes. ¢ Some responsibility for effective client relationship management to encourage smooth commercial and contract administration progression of the contract. ¢ Some responsibility for effective DevCo relationship management to encourage smooth, collaborative commercial and contract administration progression on the contract. ¢ Provides liaison with the CA, DP staff, audit team and DevCo. ¢ Expected to help manage and provide development and support to the other commercial/ contract administration team members. ¢ Responsible for planning and managing own work and helping that of other commercial/ contract administration team members. ¢ Demonstrates and maintains a high level of integrity, commercial and technical knowledge and works closely with the CA, DP team and the DevCo to develop techniques and solutions to meet business and customer needs. ¢ Understands the impact of commercial and technical changes at strategic level withing the CA’s business industry/ sector. ¢ Anticipates and plans change in resources within the project. ¢ Provides commercial/ cost support to the estimating department. ¢ Has a good degree of understanding and working knowledge of project start up procedures and is actively involved in the implementation of those procedures when required. **Roles and responsibilities** ¢ Budget planning, forecasting and cost management. Cost benchmarking reports, provide elemental cost analysis information for benchmarking purposes. ¢ Overseeing all aspects of contract administration including payment certification, cost reporting, change management and reporting on progress. ¢ Checking time sheet records and invoicing from the DevCo