Contract Administrator

Paragon is seeking a Contract Administrator to join our team! This role will be responsible for preparing, negotiating and recording business contracts on behalf of Paragon. Their duties include researching a contract’s terms, alerting parties to renewals or extensions and tracking all communications.

Responsibilities:

Collaborates with multiple levels of personnel within an organization to analyze and solidify an overall contract strategy

Serves as a liaison between internal and external parties during contract development and negotiation stages

Analyzes potential risks that contract changes may pose to the organization

Creates language standards and rules for existing and new contracts

Ensure the organization's internal contract documents are accurate and well maintained

Meet with customers to discuss both legal and business matters

Provide advice and guidance to the different teams relating to contract generation

Review, and edit all contracts

Provide support and advice on new potential businesses opportunities and how to structure the contracts

Identify opportunities to improve business processes and devise plans to implement these changes

Post contract award, ensure the project is being managed in compliance with the terms of the contract. If scope creep occurs, responsible for writing communications and notices to support change order requests

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or legal field with additional professional education and/or equivalent experience relevant to contracts negotiation and administration is required

A graduate degree in business or MBA would be beneficial

Must have at least 5 years of relevant experience in contract management

Working knowledge of contract terms and conditions, including experience with preparation of formal responses to customers, negotiation of terms and conditions, and administration of contracts of various types for both private and governmental customers

Experience in the development and implementation of complex projects involving multiple deadlines, programs, services, and staff.

Must have a strategic and analytical mindset.

Must be an excellent communicator with top-notch presentation skills.

Must have prior experience establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships

Why Paragon?

At Paragon, our mission is to lower the carbon footprint through innovative nuclear programs that are safe, sustainable, and economical. We support critical energy and national security applications through excellence in engineering, responsiveness, and integrity.

Our team operates with a shared set of values, we stay persistent in solving challenges, collaborate with purpose, and approach every project with technical passion and professionalism.

Ready to become a Paragonian?

If you're looking for a technically challenging role with purpose, professional growth, and the opportunity to support national security and energy reliability, we’d love to hear from you.

Paragon is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.