Construction Contracts Lead

Fluidstack

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in construction contract negotiations for large capital projects.
  • Proven track record in successfully closing EPC, design-build, and GMP contracts.
  • Expertise in resolving construction claims and change orders efficiently.
  • Ability to foresee long-term risks in construction contracts beyond initial pricing.
  • Experience in developing repeatable contract templates and negotiation playbooks.
  • Strong collaborative skills to interface with legal, finance, and procurement teams.
  • Bonus: Familiarity with data center construction and modular build processes.

Responsibilities

  • Negotiate and finalize contracts for multi-hundred-megawatt data center builds.
  • Create contract templates that streamline negotiations across multiple sites.
  • Manage change orders and claims, ensuring visibility to delivery teams.
  • Structure agreements that secure pricing and timelines for expedited builds.
  • Facilitate contract progression from term sheet to signature across various departments.

Benefits

  • Full autonomy in project management, encouraging extreme ownership.
  • Opportunity to push the boundaries of AI and construction innovation.
  • Fast-paced work environment focused on delivering results quickly.
  • Engagement in ground-breaking projects for data center construction.
  • Supportive culture that values exceptional talent and contributions.
Full Job Description
How We Operate
  • - **Extreme ownership. ** Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
  • - **Velocity. ** We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
  • - **First principles. ** Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
  • - **Love of the game. ** The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
The Construction Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on
  • - **Put gigawatts in the ground, faster than anyone has.** We're delivering one of the largest data center buildouts of its kind, with many sites running at once. Traditional construction management breaks at this scale, so we're building the model that replaces it.
  • - **Throw out traditional construction and invent how gigawatts get built.** Tons of tools, layers of process, and administrative drag don't get you there. You'll strip all of that out and win by solving the real problem and beating the goal, not by managing toward it.
  • - **Productize the data center so we can build it a thousand times.** You'll turn one-off construction into a repeatable, modular build, where the hundredth site goes up faster and cleaner than the first. That repeatability is the only way to reach the scale we're targeting.
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.


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