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About the Role
The Contract Specialist supports cross-functionally with project management duties within the legal team, assisting development and construction teams. This role is integral to both the legal and site development teams, requiring strong business acumen, legal redlining capabilities, technical knowledge, organizational skills, time management, communication skills, and professional client service.
Responsibilities
- Manage development contract lifecycle from initiation to completion.
- Prepare, review, and administer contractual drafts for development and construction projects.
- Review and negotiate redlines on site development vendor agreements.
- Develop expertise in contractual compliance and procedural functions.
- Communicate and coordinate invoicing and payment policies with various personnel.
- Contribute to a positive experience for internal teams and external vendors.
- Manage contract schedules of values and billing in Procore, NetSuite, Routable, Excel, and/or other platforms.
- Prepare vendor contracts for general contractors, sub-contractors, engineers, and equipment vendors.
- Use document control protocols to audit, research, and manage electronic project folders.
- Track mechanic’s liens and conditional and unconditional releases for each project.
- Pre-qualify external consultants and contractors.
- Act as the company's primary interface during the onboarding process for new vendors.
- Review and process contractor and vendor change orders or additional service requests.
- Monitor vendor compliance with appropriate departmental and interdepartmental team members.
- Create, issue and track general contracts, subcontracts and work authorizations.
- Assist in developing accurate, accessible, and up-to-date instructional content for training and reference guides.
- Support identification of process improvements to contracting workflows and contract management software utilization.
- Coordinate timely collection of signatures on all executed contracts.
- Collect, track, and maintain vendor and contractor evidence of insurance.
- Facilitate the collection, tracking, and organization of prevailing wage requirements.
- Perform other job essential assignments and special ad-hoc projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, law, paralegal studies, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
- 3+ years of experience as a contract administrator or contract specialist in a project-based corporate environment.
- Demonstrated experience reviewing and negotiating contract redlines.
- Construction or development industry experience highly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex contract matters, apply good judgment, and balance commercial, legal, and operational considerations with minimal supervision.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and responds effectively to shifting priorities and time-sensitive contract deadlines.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate cross-functionally with various departments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with construction databases and office productivity tools like Microsoft Office 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Google Suite of tools, Procore, Smartsheet, Bluebeam, and/or other software platforms.
- Experience with contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms preferred.
- Familiarity with vendor and contractor evidence of insurance requirements, including full policy documentation and endorsement forms preferred.
- Respect for confidential information; use of proper judgment in time sensitive and critical situations.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret complex contract language, identify commercial and legal risks, and determine appropriate escalation thresholds.
- Comfortable using AI-powered tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude) to enhance productivity, draft content, summarize information, and streamline routine tasks; applies sound judgment in reviewing and validating AI-generated outputs.
Skills
- Project management
- Contract drafting
- Purchase orders
- Change orders
- Financial reporting
- Accounting
- Invoice and payment activities
- Procore
- LinkSquares
- DocuSign
- Google Suite
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Smartsheet
- Bluebeam
- Business sense
- Legal redlining
- Technical knowledge
- Organizational skills
- Time management
- Communication skills
- Client service
- Contract lifecycle management
- Contract playbook
- Audit standards
- NetSuite
- Routable
- Excel
- Document control
- Mechanic's liens
- Conditional and unconditional releases
- Vendor pre-qualification
- Insurance requirements
- Prevailing wage requirements
- AI-powered tools
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in business, law, paralegal studies, or a related field
- Equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $105,000 - $115,000 a year
About the Company
- The once in a century transition to autonomous and electric vehicles is underway and will require a multi-trillion-dollar investment in energy and charging infrastructure, and the real estate to site it on.
- Terawatt is the leader in delivering large scale, turnkey charging solutions for companies rapidly deploying AV and EV fleets.
- Whether it’s an urban mobility hub, or a carefully located multi-fleet hub for semi-trucks, Terawatt brings the talent, capabilities, and capital to create reliable, cost-effective solutions for customers on the leading edge of the transition to the next generation of transport.
- With a growing portfolio of sites across the US in urban hubs and along key logistics and transportation corridors and logistics hubs, Terawatt is building the permanent transportation and logistics infrastructure of tomorrow through a robust combination of capital, real estate, development, and site operations solutions.
- The company develops, finances, owns, and operates charging solutions that take the cost and complexity out of electrifying fleets.
- At Terawatt, we execute humbly and with urgency to provide tailored solutions for fleets that delight our clients and support the transition of transportation.
Equal Opportunity
- We are building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. At Terawatt, we continuously strive to foster inclusion, humility, energizing relationships, and belonging, and welcome new ideas. We're growing and want you to grow with us. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
- If a reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the position, please contact people@terawattinfrastructure.com.
- Terawatt Infrastructure is an equal-opportunity employer.