Subcontracts Administrator_

Chicago

This Opportunity

WSP currently has exciting career opportunity for a **Subcontracts Administrator** . This individual will be involved in projects with our Subcontracts Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.

**Location:** This individual can work out of any Midwest or Mountain WSP office in the Central or Mountain time zone.

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn? We encourage you to apply for this opportunity. We’d love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working, dedicated and collaborative professionals. Our ideal candidate is seeking challenging work and is committed to quality.

Your Impact

+ Provide guidance to internal clients regarding subcontract type, higher-tier contract requirements, insurance, and risk considerations, subcontracting practices, and issue resolution.

+ Prepare and issue subcontracts and purchase orders to vendors and subcontractors and conduct negotiations with all levels of supplier/subcontractor management and obtain legal review and management approval of changes to standard terms and conditions.

+ Manage the execution of subcontracts and/or purchase orders and modifications of varying dollar value, risk, creativity and complexity for services and commodities for offices assigned by supervisor to ensure compliance with procurement policies and procedures and good business practices

+ Take initiative to resolve subcontractor performance problems, changes, disputes and claims and ensure the implementation of the most appropriate corrective actions.

+ Prepare Purchase Orders and Change Orders in ERP system for each individual subcontract or purchase order

+ Interface with IT, insurance, tax, health and safety and other applicable departments as required

+ Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Who You Are

**Required Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s degree in business-related field

+ Minimum of 3-5 years experience in drafting, editing, and negotiating subcontracts/contracts, preferably in the engineering, infrastructure, or environmental consulting or remediation business sectors for federal, state, local, and commercial clients

+ Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

+ Highly motivated and enthusiastic team player with proactive attitude

+ Detail oriented, highly organized, possess excellent written and oral communication skills.

+ Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external clients, collaborate with team members and solve problems in a fast-paced, high volume, deadline driven environment.

+ Working knowledge of various contract compensation types Experience with federal subcontracts and FAR/DFARS knowledge and influences on procurement is a plus

+ Proficient in MS Office 365, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat.

+ Must pass background check

**WSP Benefits:**

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

**Compensation:** Expected Salary (Colorado only): $75,000 - $85,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

**About WSP**

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

**NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:**

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.