Job Title: Spec, Contracts
Job ID: 19186
Job Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Job Schedule: 9/80 – Onsite
Job Description:
This position is responsible for conducting proposal preparation, pre-contract data collection, and administering, extending, negotiating and terminating standard and nonstandard government contracts.
Essential Functions:
- Preparing, negotiating, and administering a large volume of contracts of various types for a variety of customers.
- Ensuring contract acquisition and fulfillment in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, customer specifications, FAR, DFAR and ITAR.
- Reviewing RFPs; preparing proposals including engineering changes; performing associated negotiation and defining activities.
- Performing risk assessment of proposal/contract terms and conditions; formulating and executing strategies to minimize potential risks to the business.
- Working with customers, management, and program teams to resolve issues, secure approvals, and ensure successful contract execution.
- Serving as point of contact for the customer during all phases of a program.
- Generating and maintaining contract documentation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior contracts experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance.
- In-depth knowledge and experience with FAR and DFARS required and functional knowledge of SAP input and report generation.
- Must have hands on experience with ITAR
- Must have experience with reviewing RFPs, preparing proposals, negotiation, definitization and administration of DoD Contracts
- Must have 6+ years current experience with risk assessment of proposals/contract terms and conditions and strategies to minimize potential risks to the business.
- Must have experience effectively interfacing at all levels of company management
- Must have 6+years current experience effectively interfacing with Government customers and other customer organizations
- Must be able to travel as required and on short notice.
- This position requires the ability to work any shift, weekends, and overtime as required.
- Current and active Secret security clearance, or higher.
- Experience in problem solving through creative solutions drawing from prior experience is preferred.
- Must be detailed oriented
- Must possess excellent communications skills. Effectively communicate via formal letters complicated and sensitive subjects, possess proper email skills, and possess excellent verbal communication skills.
- Must have experience and be able to manage complex projects or processes.
- Must have experience leading a team/project in gathering comprehensive data from multiple disciplines and lead a team to address complex issues and concerns. Problems typically require consideration from multiple areas or specialties.
