Construction Contract Administrator in Calgary

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges.

EXP is seeking an experienced Construction Contract Administrator to expand the construction arm of a growing transportation design practice in Western Canada. You will connect design and construction, administering projects from contract award through construction, closeout, and warranty, while incorporating additional real-world field experience into our designs.

What a day at EXP has in store for you:

• Contract Administration: Administer complex transportation construction contracts in accordance with contract documents, delegated authority, and client requirements. Act as a primary liaison amongst the owner, contractor, designers, field staff, subconsultants, technical specialists, and external stakeholders. Monitor construction progress, Contractor schedules, critical activities, site occupancy, and completion requirements. Audit construction activities for compliance (quality, safety, environmental and traffic control). Organize, triage, and prioritize field issues, deliverables, and resources across multiple active construction sites. Coordinate and process RFIs, submittals, Site Instructions, extra work, supplemental work, change orders and other construction phase documentation. Maintain accurate, complete and timely project records, correspondence, reports, logs, and decision documentation.
• Design and Constructability Support: Providing constructability input during preliminary and detailed design. Reviewing drawings, specifications, quantities, and tender packages from a construction-delivery perspective. Supporting cost estimates, risk assessments, and construction planning.
• Year-Round Development: Geotechnical and construction materials sampling and testing through EXP’s CCIL-certified laboratory operations. Field and construction surveying. Pavement QA and surface smoothness testing.
• Travel and Field Requirements: A valid driver’s license is required. Regular travel to construction sites throughout Alberta is required. Assignments may involve consecutive days at project sites and periodic work away from the employee’s home office.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience administering highway construction contracts or similar work pertaining to road construction.
• Strong leadership, judgment and analytical problem solving, and negotiating skills.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple sites and prioritize competing field, schedule, and contractual issues.
• Sound knowledge of design standards, specifications, standard drawings, construction materials, and methodologies associated with highway/freeway/bridge construction.

Preferred Qualifications and Assets:

• Alberta TEC experience is strongly preferred; comparable provincial or major municipal roadway experience will also be considered.
• Proven experience administering, supervising, or inspecting structural construction contracts.
• Registration, or eligibility for registration, as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with APEGA is considered an asset.
• Transportation contract administration credentials, such as Road Construction Contract Administrator (rcca).

EXP subscribes to the Workplace Equity Program. Applications from women, members of visible minorities, Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities are encouraged.