Airport Contract Administrator II

You must be a current Maryland State Government employee to apply

The Maryland Aviation Administration (MAA) is the owner & operator of both BWI Thurgood Marshall and Martin State Airports, serving over 27 million passengers annually.
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The MAA is currently accepting applications for the position of Airport Contract Administrator II within the Office Contract Support at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI Marshall Airport).

• Managing, budget oversight, and contract administration of large, complex and highly technical maintenance, service and environmental contracts.
• Coordinating and overseeing contractual services to include inspection and monitoring of work quality, quantity, and performance to ensure contractor’s work is in accordance with contract specifications and requirements.
• Developing and maintaining cost projections, track expenses monthly against budget authorizations, and make recommendations for funds needed to support existing and future contracts.
• Reviewing and approving contractor/supplier invoices to ensure work performance is within authorized budget and spending limits.
• Ensuring contractual, regulatory and general compliance with established directives, policies, procedures and regulations.
• Providing recommendations for contract restructuring to improve maintenance practices, policies to achieve Administration objectives, and use judgement to solve complex and unusual problems.
• Acting as the Administration’s liaison between contractors and the airport stakeholders for contracted services.
• Communicating, negotiating and finding solutions to resolve problems and complaints while developing and maintaining a good working relationship between the airport tenants, contractor and the Administration, while remaining within the guidelines and specifications of the contract.

These positions are located at BWI Marshall Airport in Anne Arundel County, MD.

Seven years of professional experience in contract administration and management or procurement involving duties such as: soliciting, evaluating, negotiating, awarding and administering contracts and ensuring compliance with governmental contract and procurement laws, regulations and procedures.
* This experience must include three years of experience performing contract management and administration for maintenance and/or operations contracts in an airport environment or large facility. OR A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and three years of professional experience in contract administration and management or procurement involving duties such as: soliciting, evaluating, negotiating, awarding and administering contracts and ensuring compliance with governmental contract and procurement laws, regulations and procedures.

* This statement contains a Selective Qualification, which is more focused in scope than the Minimum Qualifications for this classification. Selective Qualifications are utilized when the position requires specific or additional bona fide occupational qualifications (i.e., knowledge, skills or abilities).

• 1. Candidates may substitute professional contract administration and management, or procurement experience on a year-for-year basis for the required education.
• 2. Candidates may substitute certification as a Certified Professional Contracts Manager from the National Contract Management Association for the required education.
• 3. Candidates may substitute additional graduate level education at an accredited college or university, at the rate of thirty credit hours for each year for up to one year of the required experience.
• 4. Candidates may substitute equivalent U.S Armed Forced military service experience for civilian experience cited above. Candidates may substitute professional…