Wood
Contracts Administrator

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Job Description
Wood has an exciting opportunity for a Contracts Administrator to join our team a 12 month contract working directly with our client on the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) project. This role offers hybrid working from the Sunbury office where 3 days a week in the office will be expected. We are open to either fixed term or contractor engagements for the role.
The Role
The role requires extensive experience in the oil and gas, petrochemical, renewable energy and/or energy transition industries. You will be part of an integrated project management team with our client, supporting the development and execution of the procurement strategy for the next phase of a major project to be built in UK.
Our Clients and Projects
The NZT project represents one of the UK’s most significant decarbonisation initiatives, delivering large-scale carbon capture, transportation, and storage infrastructure. Successful delivery requires strong alignment and engagement across bp, multiple contractors, and a diverse site workforce. Effective internal communication is essential to sustain project culture, strengthen contractor partnerships, reinforce safety and charter expectations, and support leadership visibility across all worksites.
Responsibilities
- Support development of the procurement and contracting strategy, ensuring alignment with project objectives, schedule, risk profile, and governance requirements
- Work with project, engineering, commercial and procurement teams to define the required scope, work packages and contracting model
- Support preparation of procurement plans, tender strategies, market engagement plans, approval papers and decision documents required ahead of go-to-market activity
- Identify key procurement risks, opportunities, dependencies and long-lead considerations
- Coordinate market engagement and supplier input to test contracting options, execution models, commercial structures and supplier capability ahead of formal tendering
- Support development of tender documentation, evaluation criteria, commercial schedules, and clarification processes in line with procurement governance
- Support bid evaluation, negotiation preparation, recommendation papers and award documentation
- Provide contract and commercial support during early contract mobilisation and project execution, including administration of contract deliverables, obligations, payments, changes and key commercial interfaces
- Support contract performance management by tracking supplier deliverables, commercial milestones, risks, issues and required decisions
- Provide practical contractual and commercial input to project teams on emerging issues, interpretation of contract requirements, and available options
- Support management of variations, amendments, claims, and commercial correspondence where required, ensuring appropriate governance and approvals are followed
- Support governance reviews, commercial approvals, management reporting and stakeholder communications related to procurement strategy and tender progress
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QUALIFICATIONS
- Professional technical or legal qualification
- Strong working knowledge of the full procurement lifecycle, particularly front-end strategy development, sourcing, tendering, evaluation, negotiation, award and early contract management
- Experience supporting procurement or commercial activity on major capital, energy, offshore, infrastructure, or industrial projects
- Strong commercial and negotiation skills, with the ability to support value-based outcomes and balanced risk allocation
- Good understanding of contracting models, commercial structures, payment mechanisms, change control and contract governance
- Ability to work effectively within cross-functional, integrated project teams and align procurement activity with engineering, project controls, legal, finance and delivery requirements
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple levels and disciplines
- Highly organised and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, actions, approvals and tender deliverables in a dynamic project environment


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About Us
Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com
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We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
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