Specialist, Contracts

A little about Capital Power

Capital Power (TSX: CPX) is dedicated to Powering Change by Changing Power. This north star guides our ambitions, focus, and actions as we transform our energy system. We're a growth-oriented North American energy company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. Our team safely delivers, builds, and creates balanced energy solutions for customers across North America.

Our people are at the core of our journey to deliver reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon power solutions. We provide purpose-driven work in a safe and inclusive environment, and we live by our North Star. With us, your contributions matter – we want you to be empowered to innovate, collaborate, and ultimately drive results. We're here to partner with you so you can learn, grow, and forge a career that's meaningful to you. Join us in powering North America!

Your Opportunity

One Permanent Full-Time Position.

If you are energized by collaboration, negotiation, and building strong commercial agreements, this could be the opportunity for you. Capital Power is seeking a Specialist, Contracts to partner with Supply Chain Management, business stakeholders, and corporate support teams in delivering effective contracting solutions.

In this role, you will help shape agreements from initial development through negotiation, administration, and closeout. You will provide thoughtful commercial guidance, identify and manage contractual risks, and contribute to the continued improvement of our contracting processes.

You’ll contribute to our team by:

• Develop, draft, and issue RFI/RFQ/RFP and contract documents for assigned projects.
• Manage contract amendments, renewals, extensions, assignments, and closeout activities, as required.
• Coordinate and facilitate negotiation commercial and contractual negotiations with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Support negotiations with suppliers on pricing, delivery schedules, performance guarantees, liquidated damages, commercial risk allocation, and general terms and conditions.
• Identify and recommend appropriate contract forms and commercial strategies based on project requirements, scope, complexity, and risk assessments.
• Research and support the resolution of contractual issues and disputes in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate the review and incorporation of applicable legal, HSE, cybersecurity, compliance, insurance, credit, tax, and finance requirements into contracts.
• Analyze and identify potential issues, risks and opportunities to improve standard contract documents and SCM processes.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive contract records in accordance with established document management, retention, and governance requirements.
• Recommend updates to contract templates to address identified gaps, risks, or process improvements.
• Foster strong relationships with key support areas including Legal, Insurance, Cybersecurity, HSE, Compliance, Finance, Tax, and Credit, as well as internal business and service groups.
• Monitor key contractual obligations, deliverables, milestones, renewal and expiry dates, and notice requirements, and coordinate timely follow-up with suppliers and internal stakeholders.

What you will bring to the role:

Education:

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in business, legal studies, supply chain management, or a related field.
• An equivalent of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Relevant professional designations include SCMP (SCC), CSCP (ASCM/APICS) or similar are considered assets.

Experience:

• A minimum of three years of relevant experience in supply chain management, contract management, procurement, commercial management, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of contract principles, commercial terms, risk allocation, contract structure and language, and negotiation practice.

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of commercial contracting principles and practices, with the ability to identify issues requiring legal or subject-matter expert review. Understanding of electric power industry contracting practices and familiarity with technical scopes of work related to civil, mechanical, electrical, controls, or IT systems are considered assets.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including
• Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint, as well as PDF editing tools.
• Experience using contract lifecycle management systems, including Ironclad or a comparable platform, is an asset.
• Ability to identify, assess, communicate, and support the mitigation of commercial and contractual risks.
• Strong written and verbal communication, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid office and work from home position.
• Occasional travel may be required to meet with business stakeholders or visit company facilities and other offices.

Additional Details:

Union: CSU52

Wage Range: $54.03 per hour to $64.47 per hour

Hours of Work:  8 hours per day, 40 hours per week

This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

In order to be considered for this role you must be legally eligible to work in Canada.

The successful candidate for this position will undergo an education verification, reference checks and criminal record check.               

Capital Power employees that refer a successful candidate for this position are eligible for a $500 Referral Reward!

We believe that creating a culture that supports employee physical, mental, financial, and social wellbeing is critical to our success. That is why we provide flexible and affordable employee benefits, retirement savings, performance-based bonus incentives and paid time off programs. We also provide comprehensive onboarding, training, and programs supporting your career development.

Depending on the posting requirements relocation assistance may be available

How To Apply and Next Steps

Capital Power only accepts resumes via online application at www.capitalpower.com/careers. If you choose to submit your resume by any other means, we cannot guarantee that your application will be considered for vacancies.

Applicants with disabilities who require a reasonable accommodation to complete their application can request accessible formats, communication support, or other accessibility assistance by contacting careers@capitalpower.com.

Capital Power is committed to providing a fair and transparent hiring process. We recognize and embrace the value of diversity and hire employees with the appropriate skills, experience and knowledge for each position.

Thank you for taking the time to apply and expressing interest in powering a sustainable future with Capital Power! We wish that we could personally respond to everyone who applies; however, it is our practice to contact only those individuals selected for interviews.