Contract Administrator - Project Contracts

Role:
Contract Administrator
- Project Contracts

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function:
Contracts Administration

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of relevant contract administration experience

Job Type: Full-time

Contract Administrator
- Project Contracts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Construction opportunity for a Saudi National with experience supporting contract administration, variations, claims, notices, correspondence, and commercial records across infrastructure and engineering projects. Parsons is hiring a detail-focused professional to support its PMCM team by maintaining accurate contractual records, tracking key obligations and deadlines, coordinating change and claims documentation, and ensuring contract administration activities remain compliant, traceable, and aligned with project procedures.

Country:
Saudi Arabia

City:
Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function:
Contracts Administration

Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any Candidate

Nationality:
Saudi National

Job Type: Full-time

Role Context:
The Contract Administrator will support the structured administration of contracts across airport, infrastructure, and airfield project packages. Working closely with Commercial, Cost, Contracts, Planning, Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Project Controls, contractors, consultants, and client representatives, the role will help ensure that contractual obligations, notices, submissions, variations, claims, and approvals are properly recorded and followed through. Accurate administration will be essential for protecting contractual rights, reducing commercial exposure, and maintaining reliable records for project delivery and final account purposes.

• Support administration of project contracts in accordance with approved contractual requirements and procedures.
• Maintain current and auditable contract registers, data sheets, trackers, and supporting records.
• Monitor contractual obligations, deliverables, notices, approvals, submission requirements, and response periods.
• Prepare draft contractual correspondence and notices for review by senior Contracts or Commercial personnel.
• Issue and track approved contractual communications in accordance with project procedures.
• Maintain complete records of correspondence exchanged with clients, contractors, consultants, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor contractual deadlines and escalate approaching or overdue actions.
• Track key dates including notice periods, submission deadlines, approval periods, payment milestones, guarantees, insurance requirements, and contractual deliverables.
• Support administration of Client and Contractor variations and Change Orders.
• Maintain the Variation and Change Register with accurate status, references, dates, values, and approvals.
• Track Change Requests, Variation Orders, Change Proposals, commercial evaluations, and client decisions.
• Coordinate with Cost Engineers and Commercial Managers to ensure financial effects of changes are captured accurately.
• Maintain complete supporting documentation for each variation or change event.
• Ensure approved changes are incorporated into the relevant contract records and registers.
• Support preparation, administration, and tracking of contractual claims.
• Maintain Claims Registers and associated supporting evidence.
• Track events that may create contractual entitlement and ensure required documentation is retained.
• Coordinate with Planning teams regarding delay events, programme information, and Extension of Time submissions.
• Maintain records of delay notices, instructions, RFIs, approvals, responses, and related correspondence.
• Support preparation of claim narratives, chronology, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor Client responses to claims and EOT submissions and elevate outstanding actions.
• Coordinate regularly with Commercial and Cost teams on contractual and financial matters.
• Support preparation of commercial reports, contract dashboards, and management summaries.
• Ensure contractual changes and commitments are reflected in commercial and cost records.
• Assist with reconciliation between contract registers, variations, claims, commitments, and cost reports.
• Identify contractual matters that could affect project cost, schedule, risk, or commercial position.
• Support maintenance of accurate records required for final account preparation.
• Monitor Contractor compliance with contractual obligations, notices, submissions, approvals, and response requirements.
• Maintain contractor correspondence registers and submission trackers.
• Support administration of subcontractor contractual issues where required.
• Track contractor variations, claims, performance obligations, and unresolved contractual matters.
• Escalate overdue contractor actions and missing contractual submissions.
• Prepare weekly and monthly contract administration status reports.
• Maintain Contract, Correspondence, Variation, Claims, EOT, Notice, Instruction, and…