Contract Manager - B.C. (Canada)

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business is seeking an experienced Contract Manager to join its North America Contract Management team. Reporting to the North America Contract Management Leader, the Contract Manager will provide contractual and commercial leadership for major hydroelectric projects in British Columbia.

Contract Management at GE Vernova is integrated into project delivery from the bidding and negotiation stages through execution, close-out, and warranty. In this role, you will develop and implement project‑specific contractual strategies, manage commercial risk, support negotiations, lead change and claims management activities, and protect GE Vernova’s contractual interests throughout the project lifecycle.

This role requires a strong background in EPC or other complex project environments, demonstrated negotiation and stakeholder‑management capabilities, and the ability to provide clear contractual guidance to cross‑functional project teams. Experience working with public utilities, public‑sector organizations, or other sophisticated infrastructure customers is highly valued.

Job Description

About GE Vernova

GE Vernova is a leading provider of energy technologies and services committed to advancing a more sustainable electric power system. Hydropower is Canada’s largest source of renewable electricity and plays an important role in supporting a reliable, flexible, and lower‑carbon power grid.

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business helps customers modernize existing hydropower facilities and develop projects that strengthen long‑term grid reliability, resilience, and flexibility.

Scope of the Role

• Support one or more large-scale hydroelectric projects, primarily in British Columbia.
• Provide flexibility to support projects elsewhere in Western Canada as business needs evolve.
• Serve as a senior contractual advisor to project leadership and cross‑functional teams.
• Operate as a senior individual contributor with significant influence across project organizations.
• Provide guidance and coaching to less‑experienced contract management professionals, as appropriate.

Your Impact

• Lead the contractual management of hydroelectric projects from the bidding stage through execution, close‑out, and warranty.
• Protect and strengthen GE Vernova’s commercial and contractual position through disciplined contract execution.
• Develop and implement contractual strategies aligned with each project’s objectives, risks, obligations, and opportunities.
• Reduce contractual exposure while supporting the identification and realization of project opportunities.
• Promote compliance, transparency, timely escalation, and effective decision‑making throughout the contract lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

End‑to‑End Contract Management

• Manage the contractual aspects of assigned projects from bid preparation through execution, close‑out, and warranty.
• Draft, review, and tailor commercial and contractual clauses based on project requirements and the applicable contractual framework.
• Participate in the negotiation and finalization of contracts, amendments, change orders, and other commercial arrangements with customers, partners, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Prepare contractual notices, amendments, change submissions, claims, and other formal communications in accordance with contract requirements and internal governance.
• Ensure project teams understand and appropriately apply contractual rights, responsibilities, and obligations.
• Collaborate with the Project Director and project teams to develop, communicate, and implement mitigation measures and opportunity plans.
• Support project teams in establishing performance indicators and action plans for contractual risk and opportunity management.

Contract Strategy and Risk Management

• Analyze contracts to identify risks, opportunities, deviations, assumptions, and key areas requiring ongoing attention.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the contract management plan for each assigned project.
• Provide recommendations that protect GE Vernova’s commercial and contractual interests while supporting successful project delivery.
• Ensure relevant contractual obligations are appropriately incorporated into supplier and subcontractor agreements on a back‑to‑back basis, where applicable.
• Lead the development and execution of strategies related to changes, claims, dispute avoidance, and dispute resolution.
• Manage contractual notices, changes, claims, disputes, and insurance‑related matters, as required.
• Build effective working relationships with key representatives within customer and partner organizations.

Change, Claims, and Dispute Management

• Identify potential contractual entitlement and exposure arising from delays, disruptions, scope changes, variations, and other project events.
• Ensure notices and supporting documentation are prepared and issued within the time frames established by the contract.
• Develop clear, well‑supported contractual positions for changes, claims, and negotiations.
• Coordinate major claims and dispute‑related matters with Project Leadership, Legal, Finance, and other relevant functions.
• Support dispute‑avoidance strategies and recommend practical solutions to complex contractual and commercial issues.
• Preserve GE Vernova’s contractual rights through timely communication, documentation, and escalation.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Project Governance

• Work closely with Project Management, Commercial Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, Finance, Legal, Sourcing, and other internal stakeholders.
• Advise project teams on contractual issues and contribute to informed commercial and operational decision‑making.
• Track contractual commitments and ensure contractual information is communicated effectively across the project organization.
• Participate regularly in project risk and opportunity reviews.
• Support project teams in identifying and implementing risk‑mitigation and opportunity‑capture plans.
• Escalate material contractual and commercial issues openly and promptly to ensure visibility, alignment, and timely resolution.
• Maintain constructive professional relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, rigor, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Contract Compliance and Performance Monitoring

• Monitor compliance with contractual terms and document deviations when necessary.
• Establish and maintain tools for tracking obligations, milestones, notices, changes, claims, and other contractual events.
• Support the preparation and maintenance of contractual records and ensure the traceability of key decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage and analyze incoming and outgoing correspondence with customers and partners.
• Establish and maintain commercial procedures related to correspondence, notifications, insurance, delays, variations, and claims documentation.
• Provide regular contractual risk assessments and updates to project and functional leadership through established project‑governance processes.
• Ensure contractual notices, correspondence, records, and supporting documentation are timely, complete, reliable, and maintained in accordance with internal governance and evidentiary requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction, Quantity Surveying, Business, Finance, Law, or a related technical or commercial discipline.
• A minimum of eight years of demonstrated contract management experience in complex project environments such as EPC, construction, infrastructure, energy, power generation, or other major industrial sectors.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Canadian energy or infrastructure sector.
• Experience working with public utilities, public‑sector organizations, or other sophisticated infrastructure customers.
• Demonstrated ability to compile, structure, draft, and manage complex, high‑value amendments, changes, claims, and contractual submissions.
• Strong understanding of project financial considerations, including costs, margins, risks, opportunities, and cash impact, and their relationship to contract management.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, structure, and solve complex contractual and commercial problems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Proactive working style, strong sense of ownership, and willingness to recommend and implement improvements.
• Strong written and spoken English skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 15–25%, depending on project, site, customer, and business requirements.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong experience managing turnkey EPC projects or other complex project delivery models.
• Experience in hydropower, power generation, major infrastructure, construction, or complex industrial‑project environments.
• Experience administering major equipment supply, installation, consortium, or subcontracting arrangements.
• Ability to negotiate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Sound judgment regarding contractual and commercial risk, with the ability to anticipate and proactively mitigate potential issues.
• Experience managing significant changes, claims, insurance matters, or disputes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic project environment.
• Experience working within a complex global or matrixed organization.
• Ability to communicate contractual risk, commercial exposure, and recommended strategy clearly to senior project and business leaders.
• Ability to influence teams and stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
• Experience coaching or providing guidance to less‑experienced contract management professionals.

Location and Travel

• This is a fully remote position based in British Columbia, Canada.
• The successful candidate must be available to support project, site, and customer interactions across British Columbia.
• The role may also support projects elsewhere in Western Canada as business needs evolve.
• Travel is expected to be approximately 15–25%, depending on project allocation, site requirements, customer needs, and other business considerations.

Why Join GE Vernova

This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to high‑impact hydroelectric projects supporting the energy transition in British Columbia, Canada, and across North America. You will join a collaborative, high‑performing team and work on complex, strategically important projects with significant visibility and professional growth potential.

Compensation and Pay Transparency

For candidates applying to a Canadian‑based position, the pay range for this position is between $126,300 and $189,500 CAD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

Bonus eligibility

Discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Résumé de la description de poste

L’activité Hydro Power de GE Vernova recherche un ou une gestionnaire de contrats expérimenté(e) pour se joindre à son équipe nord‑américaine de gestion des contrats. Relevant du responsable de la gestion des contrats pour l’Amérique du Nord, la personne retenue assurera le leadership contractuel et commercial de grands projets hydroélectriques en Colombie‑Britannique.

Chez GE Vernova, la gestion des contrats est intégrée à la réalisation des projets, de la soumission et de la négociation jusqu’à l’exécution, la clôture et la garantie. Dans ce poste, vous élaborerez et mettrez en œuvre des stratégies contractuelles adaptées aux projets, gérerez les risques commerciaux, soutiendrez les négociations, dirigerez les activités liées aux changements et aux réclamations et protégerez les intérêts contractuels de GE Vernova pendant tout le cycle de vie des projets.

À propos de GE Vernova

GE Vernova est un fournisseur de premier plan de technologies et de services énergétiques qui contribue à l’évolution vers un réseau électrique plus durable. L’hydroélectricité est la plus importante source d’électricité renouvelable au Canada et joue un rôle essentiel dans le maintien d’un réseau électrique fiable, flexible et à plus faibles émissions de carbone.

Portée du poste

• Soutenir un ou plusieurs grands projets hydroélectriques, principalement en Colombie‑Britannique.
• Offrir la souplesse nécessaire pour soutenir des projets ailleurs dans l’Ouest canadien selon l’évolution des besoins opérationnels.
• Agir à titre de conseiller ou conseillère contractuel(le) principal(e) auprès de la direction des projets et des équipes multidisciplinaires.
• Occuper un poste de contributeur individuel principal ayant une influence importante auprès des équipes de projet.
• Conseiller et accompagner, au besoin, des professionnels moins expérimentés en gestion des contrats.

Votre impact

• Diriger la gestion contractuelle des projets hydroélectriques, de l’étape de la soumission jusqu’à l’exécution, à la clôture et à la garantie.
• Protéger et renforcer la position commerciale et contractuelle de GE Vernova grâce à une exécution rigoureuse des contrats.
• Élaborer et mettre en œuvre des stratégies contractuelles alignées sur les objectifs, les risques, les obligations et les possibilités propres à chaque projet.
• Réduire l’exposition contractuelle tout en soutenant l’identification et la réalisation des possibilités liées aux projets.
• Favoriser la conformité, la transparence, l’escalade rapide des enjeux et une prise de décision efficace pendant tout le cycle de vie des contrats.

Principales responsabilités

Gestion contractuelle de bout en bout

• Gérer les aspects contractuels des projets assignés, de la préparation des soumissions jusqu’à l’exécution, à la clôture et à la garantie.
• Rédiger, examiner et adapter les clauses commerciales et contractuelles selon les exigences du projet et le cadre contractuel applicable.
• Participer à la négociation et à la finalisation des contrats, avenants, ordres de modification et autres arrangements commerciaux avec les clients, partenaires, fournisseurs et sous‑traitants.
• Préparer les avis contractuels, avenants, demandes de changement, réclamations et autres communications officielles conformément aux exigences contractuelles et à la gouvernance interne.
• Veiller à ce que les équipes de projet comprennent et appliquent adéquatement les droits, responsabilités et obligations contractuels.
• Collaborer avec la direction et les équipes de projet afin d’élaborer, de communiquer et de mettre en œuvre des mesures d’atténuation et des plans de réalisation des possibilités.

Stratégie contractuelle et gestion des risques

• Analyser les contrats afin de relever les risques, possibilités, écarts, hypothèses et principaux points nécessitant une attention continue.
• Élaborer, maintenir et améliorer continuellement le plan de gestion des contrats de chaque projet assigné.
• Formuler des recommandations qui protègent les intérêts commerciaux et contractuels de GE Vernova tout en favorisant la réussite des projets.
• Veiller à ce que les obligations contractuelles pertinentes soient adéquatement intégrées aux ententes avec les fournisseurs et les sous‑traitants selon le principe de concordance, lorsque cela s’applique.
• Diriger l’élaboration et la mise en œuvre des stratégies relatives aux changements, aux réclamations, à la prévention des différends et à leur règlement.
• Gérer les avis contractuels, changements, réclamations, différends et questions liées aux assurances, au besoin.
• Gérer les correspondances et les documents en lien avec les fournisseurs et les sous‑traitants?

Gestion des changements, des réclamations et des différends

• Relever les droits contractuels potentiels et l’exposition découlant des retards, perturbations, changements de portée, variations et autres événements liés aux projets.
• Veiller à ce que les avis et les documents justificatifs soient préparés et transmis dans les délais prévus au contrat.
• Élaborer des positions contractuelles claires et bien étayées pour les changements, réclamations et négociations.
• Coordonner les réclamations importantes et les différends avec la direction des projets, l’équipe juridique, les finances et les autres fonctions concernées.
• Soutenir les stratégies de prévention des différends et recommander des solutions pratiques aux problèmes contractuels et commerciaux complexes.
• Préserver les droits contractuels de GE Vernova grâce à des communications, une documentation et une escalade rapides et efficaces.

Collaboration avec les parties prenantes et gouvernance de projet

• Collaborer étroitement avec la gestion de projet, les opérations commerciales, l’ingénierie, la réalisation, la construction, la mise en service, les finances, l’équipe juridique, le sourçage et les autres parties prenantes internes.
• Conseiller les équipes sur les questions contractuelles et contribuer à une prise de décision éclairée.
• Assurer le suivi des engagements et veiller à