Contracts Manager Jobs in Houston, TX
Contracts Manager jobs in Houston are in strong demand across the Energy Corridor, Greenway Plaza, and Downtown, where oil and gas, engineering, construction, and healthcare firms drive consistent hiring. Employers posting right now include Hatch, Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, and BNY. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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About Fervo Energy
Fervo Energy (NASDAQ: FRVO) is a modern power company developing next-generation geothermal resources to meet the growing demand for affordable, reliable, 24/7 carbon-free energy. Our mission is to transform geothermal into America's most dependable and affordable source of clean, around-the-clock power. By combining innovations in horizontal drilling, fiber-optic sensing, and advanced reservoir engineering, Fervo has developed a repeatable approach to building utility-scale enhanced geothermal systems. Our flagship Cape Station development in Utah is planned to deliver 500 MW of firm, carbon-free power, and we are advancing a development pipeline of more than 50 GW. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, geoscientists, operators, project builders, and business leaders working to make geothermal a cornerstone of a more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy future.
Position Description
The Senior Manager, Commercial Contracts will provide end-to-end commercial leadership for major equipment supply agreements and other strategic project contracts on a "cradle to grave" basis. This role will work across Legal, Supply Chain, Engineering, Project Management, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, and Finance. The Senior Manager will support contract negotiations and remain accountable after execution for contract administration, change orders, claims, supplier recoveries, warranties, and closeout. This position will report to the Senior Counsel, with a dotted-line relationship to Procurement leadership.
This role acts as a liaison between Legal, Supply Chain, and Engineering. Legal owns drafting, Procurement owns sourcing strategy and supplier selection, and Engineering owns technical scope and acceptance. This position provides the commercial continuity, contract discipline, and portfolio visibility needed to convert those decisions into executable agreements and enforce them through performance. The role will also improve Fervo's contract-management processes from the ground up, using contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and practical AI-enabled workflows to increase speed, visibility, and accountability.
Responsibilities
Sourcing Events: Partner with Procurement and Engineering to plan and execute sourcing events for assigned major equipment and construction contracts, including commercial RFP content, contractual exceptions, bid evaluation, and award recommendations.
Negotiations: Lead day-to-day negotiations of equipment supply agreements, purchase terms, framework agreements, services agreements, amendments, and related commercial instruments under Legal's direction. Negotiate pricing and payment mechanics, delivery commitments, performance obligations, liquidated damages, warranties, security, changes, acceptance, remedies, termination, and closeout requirements.
Contract Management Planning: Establish and maintain a contract-management plan for each assigned agreement, including obligations, milestones, deliverables, notices, change orders, payment conditions, liquidated damages, securities, acceptance requirements, and warranty periods.
Supplier Contact and Record Keeping: Serve as the principal commercial contracts contact for assigned suppliers after award, and maintain the definitive record of notices, decisions, changes, claims, backcharges, and unresolved obligations.
Change Control: Administer change control, evaluate supplier requests with Engineering, Project Controls, and Procurement, and negotiate approved change orders and commercial settlements within delegated authority.
Warranty and Supplier Recoveries: Lead the commercial management of warranty claims and supplier recoveries, including repair, replacement, reperformance, field service, expedited logistics, and recoverable costs.
Supplier Performance: Establish supplier performance measures and KPIs, lead periodic commercial reviews, and provide early warning of material cost, schedule, performance, and contractual risks.
Formal Correspondence and Disputes: Coordinate amendments, cure notices, reservations of rights, and other formal correspondence with Legal, and support material disputes with an organized factual and contractual record.
Portfolio Reporting: Maintain concise portfolio reporting on negotiations, obligations, changes, claims, warranties, supplier exposure, deadlines, and required management decisions.
Closeout and Lessons Learned: Conduct after-action reviews following each agreement's closeout, and provide feedback to the Legal, Procurement, and Engineering teams to improve future contracting and sourcing decisions.
Scalable Procedures: Develop scalable contract-management procedures, templates, playbooks, registers, and training, and incorporate execution lessons into future contracts and procurement decisions.
CLM Process Ownership: Assess current contracting and post-execution processes from first principles, and serve as the business process owner for CLM workflows covering intake, negotiation, approvals, obligations, notices, changes, warranties, claims, and closeout.
AI-Enabled Workflows: Apply AI to defined contract-management use cases such as clause and obligation extraction, contract summaries, notice preparation, issue tracking, and reporting, with appropriate validation, human review, confidentiality, security, and access controls.
Data-Driven Improvement: Use contract data and baseline measures to improve cycle time, notice compliance, change-order aging, warranty recovery, data quality, and user adoption.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, supply chain, business, finance, law, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
10+ years of progressive experience in commercial contract management, project procurement, equipment contracting, claims, or related project-execution roles
Demonstrated experience negotiating and administering high-value equipment supply, EPC, construction, services, or other complex industrial agreements
Substantial post-award experience managing changes, claims, notices, warranties, supplier performance, and contract closeout
Strong working knowledge of payment milestones, schedule remedies, performance obligations, warranties, acceptance, changes, liability allocation, insurance, security, and termination rights
Ability to drive decisions across functions without direct authority and communicate complex commercial issues in concise, decision-ready terms
Hands-on experience improving contract work with AI, CLM, or comparable workflow tools, including workflow design, testing, data structuring, reporting, or implementation ownership
Ability to evaluate AI outputs against source documents and apply appropriate controls for accuracy, confidentiality, security, and human accountability
Willingness to travel to project sites, supplier facilities, factory acceptance tests, and commercial meetings as needed
Preferred
Owner or developer-side experience combined with experience at an EPC contractor, OEM, or complex industrial supplier
Experience in power generation, renewable energy, data-center power, or other major industrial infrastructure
Experience with turbines or ORC systems, heat exchangers, pumps, process skids, transformers, switchgear, control systems, or comparable long-lead equipment
Experience with fast-track, first-of-a-kind, or design-evolving projects
Experience as a process owner, product owner, administrator, or implementation lead for a CLM platform, AI-enabled contracting solution, or related reporting system, with measurable improvement in a contract-management outcome
Who Thrives at Fervo
We screen for attributes as much as experience. The people who do best here share a few things in common:
First-principles thinkers who question inherited processes and trace problems to their source
An extreme ownership mindset and willingness to remain accountable through final resolution
A bias for speed, iteration, and practical implementation
Simplifiers who reduce complexity without losing necessary commercial discipline
Collaborators who can align Legal, Procurement, Engineering, and project teams
A commitment to Fervo's mission and to building systems that scale
Location
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This is a hybrid role based in Houston, with regular in-office collaboration and periodic travel to project sites and supplier facilities.
Benefits & Perks
- Fervo offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. Benefits for eligible employees include:
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage
- A 401(k) plan with up to 6% match
- Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave
- Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot
- A dependent care FSA for eligible child and elder care expenses
- An annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care
- Employee ownership opportunities through Fervo's Employee Stock Purchase Program, as well as LTI and bonus opportunities for eligible roles
Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may change.
Our Workplace
Fervo Energy highly values having employees work in the office to foster collaboration and strengthen our company culture. This role follows a hybrid schedule, with team members expected to work in the office three days per week. Fervo considers this in-office schedule an essential function of the role. Your recruiter can share more information about the schedule.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Fervo Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Fervo also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an individual has any of these characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of these characteristics.
About Fervo Energy
Fervo Energy (NASDAQ: FRVO) is a modern power company developing next-generation geothermal resources to meet the growing demand for affordable, reliable, 24/7 carbon-free energy. Our mission is to transform geothermal into America's most dependable and affordable source of clean, around-the-clock power. By combining innovations in horizontal drilling, fiber-optic sensing, and advanced reservoir engineering, Fervo has developed a repeatable approach to building utility-scale enhanced geothermal systems. Our flagship Cape Station development in Utah is planned to deliver 500 MW of firm, carbon-free power, and we are advancing a development pipeline of more than 50 GW. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, geoscientists, operators, project builders, and business leaders working to make geothermal a cornerstone of a more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy future.
Position Description
The Senior Manager, Commercial Contracts will provide end-to-end commercial leadership for major equipment supply agreements and other strategic project contracts on a "cradle to grave" basis. This role will work across Legal, Supply Chain, Engineering, Project Management, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, and Finance. The Senior Manager will support contract negotiations and remain accountable after execution for contract administration, change orders, claims, supplier recoveries, warranties, and closeout. This position will report to the Senior Counsel, with a dotted-line relationship to Procurement leadership.
This role acts as a liaison between Legal, Supply Chain, and Engineering. Legal owns drafting, Procurement owns sourcing strategy and supplier selection, and Engineering owns technical scope and acceptance. This position provides the commercial continuity, contract discipline, and portfolio visibility needed to convert those decisions into executable agreements and enforce them through performance. The role will also improve Fervo's contract-management processes from the ground up, using contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and practical AI-enabled workflows to increase speed, visibility, and accountability.
Responsibilities
Sourcing Events: Partner with Procurement and Engineering to plan and execute sourcing events for assigned major equipment and construction contracts, including commercial RFP content, contractual exceptions, bid evaluation, and award recommendations.
Negotiations: Lead day-to-day negotiations of equipment supply agreements, purchase terms, framework agreements, services agreements, amendments, and related commercial instruments under Legal's direction. Negotiate pricing and payment mechanics, delivery commitments, performance obligations, liquidated damages, warranties, security, changes, acceptance, remedies, termination, and closeout requirements.
Contract Management Planning: Establish and maintain a contract-management plan for each assigned agreement, including obligations, milestones, deliverables, notices, change orders, payment conditions, liquidated damages, securities, acceptance requirements, and warranty periods.
Supplier Contact and Record Keeping: Serve as the principal commercial contracts contact for assigned suppliers after award, and maintain the definitive record of notices, decisions, changes, claims, backcharges, and unresolved obligations.
Change Control: Administer change control, evaluate supplier requests with Engineering, Project Controls, and Procurement, and negotiate approved change orders and commercial settlements within delegated authority.
Warranty and Supplier Recoveries: Lead the commercial management of warranty claims and supplier recoveries, including repair, replacement, reperformance, field service, expedited logistics, and recoverable costs.
Supplier Performance: Establish supplier performance measures and KPIs, lead periodic commercial reviews, and provide early warning of material cost, schedule, performance, and contractual risks.
Formal Correspondence and Disputes: Coordinate amendments, cure notices, reservations of rights, and other formal correspondence with Legal, and support material disputes with an organized factual and contractual record.
Portfolio Reporting: Maintain concise portfolio reporting on negotiations, obligations, changes, claims, warranties, supplier exposure, deadlines, and required management decisions.
Closeout and Lessons Learned: Conduct after-action reviews following each agreement's closeout, and provide feedback to the Legal, Procurement, and Engineering teams to improve future contracting and sourcing decisions.
Scalable Procedures: Develop scalable contract-management procedures, templates, playbooks, registers, and training, and incorporate execution lessons into future contracts and procurement decisions.
CLM Process Ownership: Assess current contracting and post-execution processes from first principles, and serve as the business process owner for CLM workflows covering intake, negotiation, approvals, obligations, notices, changes, warranties, claims, and closeout.
AI-Enabled Workflows: Apply AI to defined contract-management use cases such as clause and obligation extraction, contract summaries, notice preparation, issue tracking, and reporting, with appropriate validation, human review, confidentiality, security, and access controls.
Data-Driven Improvement: Use contract data and baseline measures to improve cycle time, notice compliance, change-order aging, warranty recovery, data quality, and user adoption.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, supply chain, business, finance, law, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
10+ years of progressive experience in commercial contract management, project procurement, equipment contracting, claims, or related project-execution roles
Demonstrated experience negotiating and administering high-value equipment supply, EPC, construction, services, or other complex industrial agreements
Substantial post-award experience managing changes, claims, notices, warranties, supplier performance, and contract closeout
Strong working knowledge of payment milestones, schedule remedies, performance obligations, warranties, acceptance, changes, liability allocation, insurance, security, and termination rights
Ability to drive decisions across functions without direct authority and communicate complex commercial issues in concise, decision-ready terms
Hands-on experience improving contract work with AI, CLM, or comparable workflow tools, including workflow design, testing, data structuring, reporting, or implementation ownership
Ability to evaluate AI outputs against source documents and apply appropriate controls for accuracy, confidentiality, security, and human accountability
Willingness to travel to project sites, supplier facilities, factory acceptance tests, and commercial meetings as needed
Preferred
Owner or developer-side experience combined with experience at an EPC contractor, OEM, or complex industrial supplier
Experience in power generation, renewable energy, data-center power, or other major industrial infrastructure
Experience with turbines or ORC systems, heat exchangers, pumps, process skids, transformers, switchgear, control systems, or comparable long-lead equipment
Experience with fast-track, first-of-a-kind, or design-evolving projects
Experience as a process owner, product owner, administrator, or implementation lead for a CLM platform, AI-enabled contracting solution, or related reporting system, with measurable improvement in a contract-management outcome
Who Thrives at Fervo
We screen for attributes as much as experience. The people who do best here share a few things in common:
First-principles thinkers who question inherited processes and trace problems to their source
An extreme ownership mindset and willingness to remain accountable through final resolution
A bias for speed, iteration, and practical implementation
Simplifiers who reduce complexity without losing necessary commercial discipline
Collaborators who can align Legal, Procurement, Engineering, and project teams
A commitment to Fervo's mission and to building systems that scale
Location
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This is a hybrid role based in Houston, with regular in-office collaboration and periodic travel to project sites and supplier facilities.
Benefits & Perks
- Fervo offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. Benefits for eligible employees include:
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage
- A 401(k) plan with up to 6% match
- Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave
- Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot
- A dependent care FSA for eligible child and elder care expenses
- An annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care
- Employee ownership opportunities through Fervo's Employee Stock Purchase Program, as well as LTI and bonus opportunities for eligible roles
Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may change.
Our Workplace
Fervo Energy highly values having employees work in the office to foster collaboration and strengthen our company culture. This role follows a hybrid schedule, with team members expected to work in the office three days per week. Fervo considers this in-office schedule an essential function of the role. Your recruiter can share more information about the schedule.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Fervo Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Fervo also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an individual has any of these characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of these characteristics.
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Contracts Manager Jobs in Houston: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a contracts manager job in Houston?
The clearest path in Houston is targeting the sectors that hire most: upstream and midstream energy, EPC contractors, healthcare systems, and commercial construction firms concentrated along the Energy Corridor and in Greenway Plaza. Candidates who can demonstrate experience with government or commercial procurement, subcontract management, or change-order negotiation stand out locally. Familiarity with Texas lien law and oilfield services agreements gives an additional edge over generalist applicants.
Which companies hire contracts managers in Houston?
Houston contracts manager roles are posted by Hatch, Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, and BNY and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Houston's employer mix skews heavily toward energy majors, engineering and construction firms, large hospital systems, and defense contractors, making it one of the more specialized contracts management markets in the country.
Are there remote contracts manager jobs in Houston?
Yes, though contracts manager work is moderately remote-friendly since many roles require on-site vendor meetings, document execution, and project coordination. About 90% of contracts manager openings tied to Houston are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with the remote segment concentrated in contract administration, compliance review, and back-office procurement functions rather than field-facing or construction roles.
How can I get a contracts manager job in Houston with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Houston is starting as a contracts administrator or procurement coordinator at an energy company, large EPC firm, or hospital system, then building toward a manager title over two to three years. Houston's heavy project-based economy means entry-level positions open regularly during ramp-ups on capital projects. Certifications such as the Certified Professional Contracts Manager designation help candidates without direct experience compete for junior roles.
Which industries hire the most contracts managers in Houston?
Houston contracts manager roles concentrate in Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Houston's position as the global hub of the energy industry, combined with a large medical center complex and a major port driving logistics and construction activity, explains why those sectors consistently generate the most local openings.
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