Senior Contract Specialist, Capital Projects

Senior Contract Administrator

Twelve is pioneering a new industrial era with carbon transformation. We use electrochemistry to turn CO2 into critical products—fuels, chemicals, and materials—that today rely on fossil fuels. Our mission: to fundamentally change how the world makes its essential goods by transforming CO2 from a liability into a resource, building resilient, fossil-free supply chains, and advancing next-generation industry.

The Senior Contract Administrator operates as a hands-on commercial and contractual lead supporting medium and large complex capital projects. This role is responsible for the day-to-day administration of EPC, EPCM, construction, subcontract, and major/complex service agreements from the preparation of request for proposal, award through execution and closeout. The position protects project value by ensuring and leading contract compliance, maintaining disciplined records and correspondence, managing change and claims, supporting payment and cost controls, and helping project teams identify and mitigate contractual and commercial risk before issues escalate.

As a Senior Contract Administrator you will support Twelve's EPC-led capital project programs by administering complex project contracts and construction contracts with rigor, urgency, and commercial discipline. You will serve as a key interface lead between Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Finance, Legal, HSE, and contractors to ensure obligations are understood, notices are timely, changes are properly evaluated, claims are proactively managed, and contract closeout is completed cleanly.

This role requires prior experience administering complex capital contracts including EPC contracts and construction contracts in oil and gas, energy, chemicals, or similarly complex industrial environments.

What You Will Do

• Develop and implement processes related to contract development and administration
• Administer complex contracts including EPC, EPCM, construction, subcontract, and major service agreements from award through execution, commissioning support, final account, and closeout.
• Interpret contract terms, scope, obligations, deliverables, notice requirements, change mechanisms, payment provisions, securities, insurance, warranties, and closeout requirements.
• Maintain complete contract records, correspondence, change logs, claims registers, commitment records, payment documentation, back-charge files, and closeout documentation to support audit readiness and dispute avoidance.
• Lead contract change administration, including receipt, evaluation, negotiation support, approval routing, execution, and tracking of change orders, amendments, field change requests, and contract modifications.
• Support entitlement analysis for contractor claims, delays, disruption, acceleration, extensions of time, disputed scope, back charges, and commercial settlements.
• Partner with Project Controls, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and HSE to align contract administration with scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and risk management objectives.
• Review and validate contractor invoices, progress payment applications, milestone claims, retention, holdbacks, allowances, reimbursables, and supporting documentation against contract requirements.
• Monitor contractor compliance with commercial terms, reporting obligations, document deliverables, insurance and bonding requirements, HSE obligations, site requirements, and contractual performance commitments.
• Prepare, issue, and manage formal project correspondence, notices, responses, meeting records, contractual positions, and reservation-of-rights communications in coordination with project leadership and Legal.
• Drive contract closeout by confirming completion of contractual deliverables, punch list support, lien releases, warranties, as-built documentation, final invoices, claims resolution, lessons learned, and final account settlement.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Law, or a related field; advanced degree or professional contract management…