Construction Contracts Lead

Fluidstack

$90K — $130K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience negotiating large construction contracts (EPC, design-build, GMP, or lump-sum)
  • Demonstrated success in resolving complex change orders and construction claims
  • Ability to foresee long-term risks in construction contracts, not just upfront costs
  • Experience developing contract templates that facilitate repetitive deal structures
  • Strong collaboration skills across legal, finance, procurement, and delivery teams
  • High organizational skills to manage multiple concurrent projects
  • Bonus: Background in data center construction or large-scale power projects

Responsibilities

  • Negotiate and finalize EPC, design-build, and GMP contracts for major data center builds
  • Develop contract templates and playbooks for consistent negotiations across projects
  • Manage change orders and claims from initiation to resolution, ensuring visibility of costs and schedules
  • Create agreements with subcontractors and vendors to secure pricing and timelines
  • Coordinate with legal, finance, and delivery teams to expedite contract processing

Benefits

  • Commitment to pay equity and transparency
Full Job Description
Role Scope
  • - Negotiate and close EPC, design-build, and GMP contracts for multi-hundred-megawatt data center builds, structuring terms that hold speed, cost, and risk in balance across concurrent sites.
  • - Build the contract templates and playbooks that turn one-off negotiations into a repeatable kit deployed across every site in the pipeline.
  • - Own change orders and claims from first notice to resolution, keeping cost and schedule exposure visible to delivery leads before it lands on the critical path.
  • - Structure subcontractor and vendor agreements that lock pricing and lead times against a build calendar measured in months, not years.
  • - Quarterback across legal, finance, procurement, and site delivery to move a contract from term sheet to signature in weeks.
What We're Looking For
  • **The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.**
  • - You've personally negotiated and closed large construction contracts (EPC, design-build, GMP, or lump-sum) on capital projects, and you held the terms when a counterparty pushed back mid-build.
  • - You've resolved change orders and construction claims worth millions without letting them stall the schedule or blow up the counterparty relationship.
  • - You read a construction contract for the risk that shows up eighteen months later, not just the price on signing day.
  • - You've built contract templates or playbooks that let a team run the same deal structure again and again instead of starting from a blank page each time.
  • - You quarterback across legal, finance, and field teams, and you're the person others call when a contract is stuck.
  • - You keep every term, exhibit, and amendment tracked cleanly across a portfolio of concurrent projects, and nothing gets lost in the noise.
  • - **Bonus:** Data center or mission-critical construction. Behind-the-meter or utility-scale power projects. Modular or productized build delivery. Working with AHJs and permitting authorities.


We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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