Contracts Professional - Vancouver, Canada - BC Hydro

BC Hydro

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Vancouver, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that's where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Duties:

Review procurement plans, contracting plans, scopes of work, specifications, and draft RFP/RFT

documents from a post award contract management perspective.

Perform day to day contract management activities including, but not limited to, attending and/or

chairing progress meetings, monitoring schedules, expediting, drafting of change documents as
required, facilitate change processes, negotiations, facilitating and negotiation of claims and
disputes as required, forecasting, accrual reporting, validation of payment requests, tracking of
contract submittals and other deliverables, monitor document controls and contract interpretation.

Create, manage, change and close work packages in the PPM model as a Work Package

Manager.

The Contracts Professional performs not only daytoday contract management, but also assists

in the design and implementation of innovative strategies to enhance vendor management and
optimize

The Contracts Professional will be responsible for monitoring, analyzing and reporting on a

monthly basis the expenditures on all

Key success factors for the role include the ability to work with and influence others (both

internal and external stakeholders), the ability to understand and optimize detailed contract terms
and conditions and the ability to implement continuous improvements to streamline processes.

Qualifications:

***progressive experience managing and understanding complex installation, supply, consulting
- services and construction contracts.

Partial or full completion of the Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP-PMAC)

Designation and /or International Association of Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)

Certification to Practitioner level is an asset.
Experience managing and understanding information technology and telecommunications

contracts (and/or information technology and telecommunications work technical education /
- experience) is an asset.

Must possess excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiating, project management,

planning and organizational skills.- Proven abilities (as they relate to contract management) in influencing internal and external

parties, managing risk, and optimizing costs through innovation.reporting systems and tools such as Unifier.- Proficiency with MS Office including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.

Management tools (PPM) and Business Warehouse, Passport, Primavera P6/Unifier, Sharepoint-
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This role may require some travel to Fort St John.
This position is expected to run until Dec. 30, 2024.

We're always looking for exceptional people to bring new ideas, fresh thinking and the motivation
to help shape the electricity system in B.C. It's an exciting time to be a part of our team as we
invest in our system and prepare to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Our values guide our work. Want to join us?
We are safe.
We are here for our customers.
We are one team.
We include everyone.
We act with integrity and respect.
We are forward thinking.
BC Hydro is an equal opportunity employer.

minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual
orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively
engage with diverse communities.
We are also happy to provide reasonable accommodations throughout the selection process and

BC Hydro has a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy that requires employees to have a full series of
COVID-19 vaccine and provide proof of vaccination on request. This Policy is currently suspended
but may resume at BC Hydro's discretion. While the Policy is suspended, all new employees are
required to disclose their vaccination status to BC Hydro.

Flexible work model role definitions
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Our four role types identify the degree of flexibility an employee could have to work from home
based on the type of work they do. The flexibility for an individual job is up to the manager for
each position and the operational requirements. Employees also have the right to work full-time
from the office if they prefer. All of our roles require at