[Hiring] Contract Manager @GE Vernova

Role Description

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business is seeking an experienced Contract Manager to join its North America Contract Management team. Reporting to the North America Contract Management Leader, the Contract Manager will provide contractual and commercial leadership for major hydroelectric projects in British Columbia.

Contract Management at GE Vernova is integrated into project delivery from the bidding and negotiation stages through execution, close-out, and warranty. In this role, you will:

• Develop and implement project-specific contractual strategies.
• Manage commercial risk.
• Support negotiations.
• Lead change and claims management activities.
• Protect GE Vernova’s contractual interests throughout the project lifecycle.

This role requires a strong background in EPC or other complex project environments, demonstrated negotiation and stakeholder-management capabilities, and the ability to provide clear contractual guidance to cross-functional project teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction, Quantity Surveying, Business, Finance, Law, or a related technical or commercial discipline.
• A minimum of eight years of demonstrated contract management experience in complex project environments such as EPC, construction, infrastructure, energy, power generation, or other major industrial sectors.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Canadian energy or infrastructure sector.
• Experience working with public utilities, public-sector organizations, or other sophisticated infrastructure customers.
• Demonstrated ability to compile, structure, draft, and manage complex, high-value amendments, changes, claims, and contractual submissions.
• Strong understanding of project financial considerations, including costs, margins, risks, opportunities, and cash impact, and their relationship to contract management.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, structure, and solve complex contractual and commercial problems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proactive working style, strong sense of ownership, and willingness to recommend and implement improvements.
• Strong written and spoken English skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 15–25%, depending on project, site, customer, and business requirements.

Requirements

• Strong experience managing turnkey EPC projects or other complex project delivery models.
• Experience in hydropower, power generation, major infrastructure, construction, or complex industrial-project environments.
• Experience administering major equipment supply, installation, consortium, or subcontracting arrangements.
• Ability to negotiate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Sound judgment regarding contractual and commercial risk, with the ability to anticipate and proactively mitigate potential issues.
• Experience managing significant changes, claims, insurance matters, or disputes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic project environment.
• Experience working within a complex global or matrixed organization.
• Ability to communicate contractual risk, commercial exposure, and recommended strategy clearly to senior project and business leaders.
• Ability to influence teams and stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
• Experience coaching or providing guidance to less-experienced contract management professionals.

Benefits

• This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to high-impact hydroelectric projects supporting the energy transition in British Columbia, Canada, and across North America.
• You will join a collaborative, high-performing team and work on complex, strategically important projects with significant visibility and professional growth potential.
• For candidates applying to a Canadian-based position, the pay range for this position is between $126,300 and $189,500 CAD.
• Bonus eligibility: Discretionary annual bonus.

Company Description

GE Vernova is a leading provider of energy technologies and services committed to advancing a more sustainable electric power system. Hydropower is Canada’s largest source of renewable electricity and plays an important role in supporting a reliable, flexible, and lower-carbon power grid.

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business helps customers modernize existing hydropower facilities and develop projects that strengthen long-term grid reliability, resilience, and flexibility.