Claims Engineer

Role summary

Claims and analysis duties

• Prepare, coordinate, issue, and administer financial claims and time extensions; report progress, variations, and claims status.
• Analyze contract terms, tender pricing, rates, productivity, records, notices, actual time and costs, and cause-and-effect links.
• Identify cost-recovery routes and assess planned programmes, critical paths, revisions, and reasons for programme changes.
• Prepare independent delay and cost analyses using accepted techniques; advise on delay and programme analysis methods.
• Manage claims documentation protocols and ensure required records are collated contemporaneously.
• Assess entitlements by dissecting construction programmes and analyzing contractor schedules, critical paths, and delays.
• Prepare substantiation, advice, concise reports, and letters related to client claims.
• Audit employer-driven claims and manage disputes using contractual, factual, and commercial analysis.
• Work with the client’s Contracts Directorate to diagnose, report, and mitigate exposure.
• Recommend strategies focused on provable issues; produce technically, legally, and commercially correct submissions with demonstrative evidence and graphics.

Minimum requirements

• At least 10 years of successful high-value claims and time-extension experience.
• At least 15 years of project experience, including five years in contract administration for major projects or contracts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Law, or a relevant professional qualification.
• Conversant with Primavera for as-built and cause-and-effect programmes, programme revision comparisons, and claims strategies.
• Understand the SCL Protocol and be prepared to implement appropriate delay analysis.
• Proven ability to develop and submit complex claims on large projects.
• Strong computer skills, including effective development and operation of analytical spreadsheets.
• Excellent written and verbal English and ability to provide high-quality briefings, submissions, and reports.
• Extensive experience with FIDIC contracts and construction-industry experience, including main-contractor roles.