Lead Contract Administrator (Capex)

🏆 Lead Contract Administrator | Capital Projects – Northern Ontario 🏆

📍 Location: Detour Lake Area, Ontario (Site-Based) / Timmins Office

📄 Duration: 12-Month Contract (yearly extension 5 year +)

🗓️ Rotation: 4/3 on site and 5/2 at home, alternating weeks

Our client, a global leading gold producer delivering a major multi-year CAPEX and brownfield expansion program, is looking for a Lead Contract Administrator. This person will build out and lead the contract administration function within a growing Capital Projects team in Northern Ontario. ⚙️📊

This is a new leadership role. You'll work alongside the leads for estimating, cost, and scheduling, set the standard for contract governance across the portfolio, and mentor a growing team of contract administrators as the group expands. Senior Contract Administrators ready to step into leadership are also encouraged to apply. 🏔️

🎗️ Key Responsibilities

• 📂 Lead contract administration for construction, services, and supply contracts across the capital projects portfolio
• 🤝 Manage the full contract lifecycle: tendering support, award, execution, change management, and closeout
• 📉 Administer change orders, claims, and variations, and assess their commercial impact with cost control
• 💼 Oversee progress payment certificates and make sure they follow authorization matrices and governance rules
• 🛰️ Resolve invoice discrepancies, overdue payments, and vendor disputes with project accounting
• 📊 Maintain contract registers, correspondence logs, and reporting for leadership
• 🏆 Develop and standardize contract administration processes, templates, and controls
• 👥 Provide direction, coaching, and workload planning for contract administrators and coordinators
• 📂 Support internal and external audit requirements

🎯 Your Profile

• 🎓 Post-secondary education in Business, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field
• 🏆 10+ years of contract administration experience in capital projects, with at least 3 years in a lead or supervisory role
• ⛏️ Mining, heavy industrial, or EPCM environment experience strongly preferred
• 📜 Strong knowledge of CCDC and/or FIDIC contract forms, change management, and claims
• 💼 Experience with SAP and/or JD Edwards (strong asset)
• Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• 📊 Able to balance governance and detail with the pace of an active mine site

🏆 Why Join This Opportunity

• ⛰️ Shape a new leadership function on a major Canadian gold capital program at Detour Lake
• 📈 Join a project controls team growing from about 15 people to 24
• Work alongside experienced estimating, cost, and scheduling leads
• 🏗️ Long-term role within a team being built for sustained, multi-year delivery, not a short-term backfill
• 🏔️ Flexible rotation and long-term project stability