PrimECS, LLC. is a Washington, D.C.-area infrastructure construction firm working across civil engineering, construction engineering, design management, construction management, and construction education. The company combines technical project services with a focus on developing industry leaders and expanding opportunities for people with fewer resources. Its work and hiring context span construction and education, with an emphasis on leadership, learning, and innovation as the infrastructure sector responds to social and technological change.
Senior Construction Contracts and Claims Specialist
Manage claims, change orders, and contract reviews for U.S. heavy civil infrastructure projects. Prepare evidence-based submissions and coordinate reviews across project, finance, management, and legal teams.
Сипаттама
- Prepare and coordinate claims, change-order packages, and contract reviews for construction projects.
- Turn project records into supported claims and draft proposed contract revisions.
- Guide assigned matters through management and legal review.
- Develop claim packages for scope changes, added costs, disruption, delays, remobilization, and other documented impacts.
- Create event timelines that link contract terms to causes, impacts, and requested remedies.
- Review contracts, amendments, directives, correspondence, daily reports, schedules, quantities, and cost records.
- Find evidence gaps and obtain missing records from responsible team members.
- Draft claim narratives, calculations, indexed exhibits, change-order requests, notices, and responses.
- Reconcile claim amounts with finance and identify payments, credits, overlapping claims, and unsupported costs.
- Evaluate schedule impacts and determine when specialist delay analysis is needed.
- Compare original and revised agreements, subcontracts, and amendments.
- Create prioritized issue matrices and propose revisions to key contract provisions.
- Identify incorporated documents, unclear obligations, notice requirements, deadlines, and documentation gaps.
- Coordinate legal questions with counsel and insurance requirements with the authorized broker.
- Maintain a current contract and claims register covering amounts, status, deadlines, evidence gaps, owners, next steps, and decisions needed.
- Track submissions, delivery records, acknowledgments, and responses.
- Prepare management recommendations and negotiation briefs.
- Follow up on missing information and overdue responses, escalate time-sensitive issues, and create reusable checklists and templates.
- Request records and coordinate reviews within delegated authority.
Талаптар
- Hands-on experience preparing claims and administering U.S. construction contracts for heavy civil, transportation, transit, or public infrastructure projects.
- Experience supporting project owners or contractors with change-order preparation, disputed payments, and claim review or negotiation.
- Ability to interpret contract requirements, analyze project records and schedule impacts, and reconcile claim calculations against source cost records.
- Strong technical writing, analytical, spreadsheet, and document-control skills.
- Able to work independently, gather information from a distributed team, manage overlapping deadlines, and coordinate during agreed U.S. Eastern Time hours.
- Experience with rail or transit projects, professional services agreements, delay and disruption analysis, and public-sector contracting is preferred.
- Familiarity with CPM scheduling, Procore, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Bluebeam, Excel, and Google Workspace is helpful.
- Practical capability and relevant work samples are valued more than software familiarity alone.
- Provide your earliest start date, weekly availability, Eastern Time overlap, and proposed hourly rate.
- Submit a resume or professional profile, two relevant project examples outlining your role and outcomes, and an authorized redacted claim narrative or contract review sample.
- Do not submit confidential client information.
Артықшылықтар
- Part-time independent contractor engagement.
- Remote work arrangement.
- The engagement may extend beyond the initial 3–4 months.
- Weekly hours, response expectations, hourly rate, and spending limit will be agreed before work begins.
- Shortlisted candidates may be invited to complete a brief paid assessment.