Specialist Contractor Performance & Govn

This role is responsible for leading the end-to-end contractor management framework, ensuring scope, quality, cost, compliance, and governance requirements are met across all projects and operational contracts.

Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Create a safety culture through productive and authorized operational systems/processes that allow all employees (including contracting partners) to provide their outputs in a risk-controlled environment. Oversee consistent application of Safety & Health principles in all discipline interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.
• Lead the implementation of the Contractor Management Process across designated sites, ensuring adherence to timelines, standards, and governance requirements.
• Ensure effective utilization of the Contractor Management System, maintaining data integrity and accuracy to support compliance and reporting.
• Monitor and report contractor performance metrics, including headcount, compliance, and risk indicators, and support improvement initiatives to address gaps.
• Verify contractor scope from engineering and commercial perspectives, ensuring quality standards are embedded throughout tendering, execution, and close-out phases.
• Maintain the contractor assurance framework, conduct compliance checks, and ensure adherence to legal, regulatory, and internal standards.
• Track and monitor expenditure against approved budgets and escalate out-of-budget requests for review and approval in line with governance requirements.
• Compile and analyse contractor performance data (cost, schedule adherence, quality outcomes) and prepare accurate reports to inform decision-making.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders, including Commercial, Supply Chain, SHE, and People & Organisation teams, to ensure contractor performance supports business priorities.
• Support the contractor feedback process, ensuring mechanisms are in place to address suggestions, complaints, and recommendations effectively.
• Identify opportunities for scope consolidation, ensuring alignment with Delegation of Authority (DOA) requirements to optimize efficiency.
• Provide guidance on Scope of Work (SoW) development, ensuring risk assessments, SHE and Social Performance requirements, and KPIs are incorporated before submission.
• Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory, legislative and permitting requirements.