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Senior Contract Administrator
@ Turner & Townsend
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Turner & Townsend is hiring a Senior Contract Administrator to provide commercial and contract advice on major construction and infrastructure projects. The role involves monitoring commercial matters, financial forecasting, payments, change management and claims, and working directly with clients. The posting offers full health and dental benefits, a hybrid work arrangement and a learning budget.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor, analyse and report on commercial matters
- Advise on contracts, payments, forecasting and change management
- Manage claims and cashflow analysis
- Interface with clients, consultants and contractors at all project stages
- Support client senior management in delivering major projects
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years in contract administration or commercial management
- Professional qualification in construction, cost, engineering or project management
- Experience with the Alliance contract model
- Experience in a client-focused consultancy
- Excellent English verbal and written communication
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-05
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Business operations |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Encouraged to apply | People with disabilities |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Retirement plan |
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Turner & Townsend
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Delivering impactful projects and programmes across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
Full company description
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes. Together with our clients, we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
- LinkedIn followers
- 1,003,071
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 14,836
- Reported office locations
- Low Hall, Caverley Lane/Low Hall Road, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 4GH, GB
- Business categories
- Construction
- Real Estate Investment
- Commercial Real Estate
- Consulting
- Professional Services
- Environmental Engineering
- Architecture
- Energy
- Other recorded names
- Turner & Townsend
- Specialties
- Programme strategy and set up
- Programme management
- Cost and commercial management
- Project management
- Procurement
- Safety
- health and quality
- Controls and performance
- Technology and data
- Advisory
- energy
- natural resources
- and real estate
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes. Together with our clients, we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Construction |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Horsforth, Leeds |
| Organization type | Partnership |
| Year founded | 1946 |
| Specialties | Programme strategy and set upProgramme managementCost and commercial managementProject managementProcurementSafetyhealth and qualityControls and performanceTechnology and dataAdvisory |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 109 |
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Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
As a Senior Contract Administrator, you be involved in:
- Working as part of a team and integrating with other project teams, commercial managers, contract administrators, technical advisors, clients, contractors and sub-contractors
- Monitoring, analysing, reporting and providing advice on commercial matters.
- Providing insight and advice on commercial and contract arrangements, financial forecasting, payments, contract management & controls, change management cashflow analysis and claims management.
- Strong understanding and experience in various construction models as required.
- Interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages.
- Provide and drive the direction of the strategic, operational and technical diagnosis of the client needs.
- Support client’s organization and senior management in improving their capacity to develop and deliver major projects and programs efficiently and effectively.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in contract administration, commercial management, or a related infrastructure/construction environment.
- Professionally qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management, engineering or project management.
- Contracts/Commercial Management experience preferably gained within the construction environment (rail, water, power, and utilities preferred).
- A strong and demonstrable experience in providing procurement and contract administration advice and an ability to manage and report directly into the client and their key stakeholder group at both project and program level.
- Strong understanding and experience with the Alliance contract model required.
- Experienced in working within a Client focused consultancy environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with staff at all levels
- Excellent verbal and written English with excellent report writing skills.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask.
- Strong time management skills, quick thinking and resilience to deal with a fast-paced environment.
Additional Information
What's in it for you...
- 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)
- Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program
- RRSP option with company matching
- Annual learning and development budget
- Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth
- Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role
- We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex and sick days
- A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives
- Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
We are an Equal opportunity employer who will ensure accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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This posting reflects an existing vacancy that we are actively hiring for.
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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
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