Contracts Manager

Zeerust, South Africa | Posted on 09/08/2026

• Work Experience Minimum 10-15 years of relevant experience, including significant experience managing EPC contracts on utility-scale power, renewable energy or major infrastructure projects
• Job Opening Status Open
• Industry Energy and Utilities
• Degree Bachelor's
• Job Role Contracts Manager
• State/Province Northern Cape
• Country South Africa

Job Location
- Botswana

Job Summary:

• We are seeking an experienced Contracts Manager to lead and manage all contractual and commercial matters associated with the development and execution of the Project, with particular focus on the EPC Contract, the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), the Project's insurance program and other major project agreements. The successful candidate will act as the Project Company'sprincipal contractual and commercial focal point, protecting the Project Company's contractual position, minimizing exposure to contractor claims anddelays, ensuring full compliance with contractual obligations, and proactivelypursuing the Project Company's contractual entitlements.
  
  The role combinesstrong contract administration and claims-management capability with aproactive, owner-side commercial mindset to support successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the Project Company'sprincipal focal point for administration of the EPC Contract, the PPA and other major project agreements.
• Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of all EPC contractual obligations, milestones, guarantees,deliverables, notice requirements and commercial mechanisms.
• Monitor the EPC Contractor'scompliance throughout engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning,testing and project completion, tracking key milestones including Notice to Proceed, energization, commissioning, reliability testing, Provisional Acceptance,Commercial Operation Date and Final Acceptance.
• Maintain a contractual obligations register identifying obligations, responsible parties, noticeperiods, deadlines and current status.
• Identify potential EPCnon-compliance, delay, default and contractual exposure at an early stage andadvise project management on mitigation measures; preserve the Project Company's rights through timely notices,reservations of rights and formal contractual correspondence.
• Manage the variation/change order process end-to-end: review Contractor-submitted variation proposals and quotations,verify the contractual basis and pricing methodology, negotiate valuation, and process approvals through the Project Company's authorization levels; maintaina Variation/Change Order register.
• Assess, on a case-by-case basis,whether the EPC Contractor or other project counter parties are contractuallyentitled to take a particular action, issue an instruction, claim relief,invoke a specific contractual mechanism or make a given change, and advise the Project Director and Execution Project Director accordingly before the Project Company responds.
• Establish and maintain aproactive claims-avoidance strategy; identify potential claims before theycrystallize and coordinate mitigation actions with the project team.
• Review and assess contractorclaims relating to Extension of Time (EOT), additional cost, variations,disruption, acceleration, changes in law, force majeure, site conditions,employer-caused delay and other contractual entitlements; recommend acceptance,rejection, negotiation or settlement positions, including assessment of contractual time bars and substantiation requirements.
• Identify circumstances givingrise to Project Company claims and proactively pursue contractual entitlementsagainst contractors; coordinate calculation of damages, delay costs, Liquidated Damages and other contractual compensation.
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the PPA and the obligations of the Project Company and the Offtaker; monitor compliance with PPA milestones, performance obligations,payment mechanisms, reporting, force majeure, default and terminationprovisions.
• Prepare contractual notices andformal correspondence to the EPC Contractor, the Offtaker and othercounterparties in accordance with the applicable

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Law, Construction Management, Commercial Management or a related discipline; a professional qualification in contracts, commercial management,construction law or quantity surveying is advantageous.
• Minimum 10-15 years of relevant experience,including significant experience managing EPC contracts on utility-scale…