Senior Construction Contracts and Claims Specialist

Senior Construction Contracts and Claims Specialist

U.S. Heavy Civil and Infrastructure Projects

Remote | Part-time independent contractor

Initial engagement: 3-4 months, with potential extension

About The Client

U.S.-based civil engineering and construction management firm providing engineering, surveying, project management, and construction support services for major infrastructure projects.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on specialist to own the preparation and coordination of construction claims, change-order packages, and contract reviews. You will turn project records into substantiated submissions, develop proposed contract revisions, and drive assigned matters through management and legal review. Success requires independent analysis, clear writing, and persistent follow-through with project teams.

The initial focus is on outstanding changes and payment-related disputes, together with new contracts and amendments requiring review. You work directly with project managers, finance, administrative support, and external legal counsel.

Claims and Change Management

Develop claim packages covering changed scope, additional costs, disruption, delay, remobilization, and other documented project impacts. Build an event chronology and connect the contractual basis, cause, impact, and requested relief.

Review contracts, amendments, directives, correspondence, daily reports, schedules, quantities, and cost records. Distinguish supported facts from assumptions, identify weaknesses, and obtain missing evidence directly from the responsible team members.

Prepare claim narratives, calculations, indexed exhibits, change-order requests, draft notices, and responses. Reconcile amounts with finance and identify prior payments, credits, overlapping claims, and unsupported costs.

Assess schedule impacts using available records and identify when specialist delay analysis is needed. Evaluate both supporting and adverse evidence, including potential responsibility shared by multiple parties.

Contract Review and Administration

Compare original and revised agreements, subcontracts, and amendments. Produce a prioritized issues matrix and proposed revisions addressing scope, exclusions, survey responsibility, access, schedule, compensation, payment, insurance, indemnity, liability, termination, and dispute provisions.

Identify incorporated documents, ambiguous obligations, notice requirements, submission deadlines, and documentation gaps. Coordinate unresolved legal questions with counsel and insurance requirements with the authorized broker.

Maintain a live contract and claims register showing amounts, status, deadlines, evidence gaps, owners, next actions, and decisions required. Track approved submissions, delivery records, acknowledgments, and responses.

Prepare concise recommendations and negotiation briefs for management. Follow up on missing inputs and overdue responses, escalate time-sensitive issues promptly, and develop reusable checklists and templates.

Required Qualifications

Demonstrated, hands-on experience preparing claims and administering U.S. construction contracts for heavy civil, transportation, transit, or public infrastructure projects.

Experience supporting project owners or contractors through change-order preparation, disputed payment issues, and claim review or negotiation. Clearly describe your personal contribution to prior assignments.

Ability to interpret contract requirements, analyze project records and schedule impacts, and reconcile claim calculations to source cost records.

Strong technical writing, analytical, spreadsheet, and document-control skills, with the ability to produce clear, traceable, review-ready work.

Ability to work independently, obtain information across a distributed team, manage concurrent deadlines, and coordinate during agreed U.S. Eastern Time hours.

Preferred Qualifications