About the Role
The Contract Review Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring customer requirements are fully understood, accurately built, and properly documented before any job is released to the production floor. This position acts as a second set of eyes after Engineering to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with customer specifications, internal processes, and applicable industry standards. The role is detail-oriented, customer-facing, and requires strong organizational and communication skills, serving as a key link between customers, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, and Production.
Responsibilities
- Review customer purchase orders to verify process requirements, pricing accuracy, correct quantities, notes, and special instructions.
- Conduct reviews of blueprints and technical documents to ensure specifications are met throughout the production process.
- Confirm that Engineering-built job routers accurately reflect all customer and specification requirements, including blueprint revisions, purchase orders, customer notes, and test panel requirements.
- Act as the second level of verification to ensure no steps, requirements, or documentation are missed prior to release.
- Identify discrepancies, omissions, or unclear requirements and collaborate with Engineering and Quality to resolve them.
- Ensure all required documentation is complete, accurate, and assembled before releasing the job to the production floor.
- Monitor paint and powder inventory levels relative to upcoming jobs and identify material shortages or potential shortfalls.
- Coordinate with purchasing to ensure required materials are ordered in time to support production schedules.
- Serve as customer-facing point of contact for purchase order revisions, clarification of specifications/requirements, pricing discrepancies, and missing or incorrect documentation.
- Maintain organized tracking of open items requiring customer feedback and perform follow-ups when responses are delayed.
- Provide clear, professional communication to support timely job release.
- Track all open and pending contract review items.
- Communicate outstanding issues, pending customer responses, and job status to the internal team daily.
- Coordinate with customer service and production management regarding front-end delays impacting lead times.
- Assist with non-conformance/rework documentation, shipping & logistics, count changes, load splits, and coordinating with finance for invoicing when primary responsibilities are complete.
Requirements
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple jobs simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving abilities
- Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, and Production
- Comfortable working directly with customers
- Full proficiency expected to take up to one year due to complexity of requirements, military/government specifications, and coating processes.
Skills
- Contract review
- Customer requirement verification
- Blueprint and technical document review
- Process requirement verification
- Quality assurance and compliance
- Pricing accuracy verification
- Inventory monitoring
- Material coordination
- Customer communication
- Problem-solving
- Organizational skills
- Time-management skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
Location
- State of New York
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
- Mid Level
Salary/Compensations
- $20.00 - $24.00 per hour
Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation / Sick Time
- 401 (k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary Insurance Benefits including Disability Insurance, Accident Insurance, Cancer Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Hospital Indemnity Insurance and Life Insurance
- Free Fountain Soda Machine On-site!
About the Company
- C.H. Thompson is a premier one-stop-shop for all finishing needs, focusing on improving quality and increasing productivity.
- Services include anodizing, painting, powder coating, intricate masking and silk screening.
- Serves industries including aerospace, agricultural, automotive, computer, electronics, household, industrial, medical and military.
- Customer base ranges from small privately owned machine shops to top Fortune 500 companies.
- ISO 9001:2015, AS9100D and NADCAP certified.
Equal Opportunity
- C.H. Thompson is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
- Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
