Austin Industries is one of the nation’s largest, most diversified U.S.-based construction companies. With more than 5,700 employee-owners, Austin Industries provides nearly every type of civil, commercial and industrial construction services through the expertise of our operating companies: Austin Bridge & Road, Austin Commercial and Austin Industrial.
Austin Industrial, Inc. delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to the nation’s leading producers of oil, gas & chemicals; energy; and manufactured goods. As a merit shop, employee-owned company that self-performs more than 95% of a typical project scope, we pride ourselves on helping our customers maximize their return on investment.
Career Progression
The ideal career progression for candidates with outstanding performance is below.
- Contract Administrator – 2-3 years
- Contract Manager– 3-4 years
- Risk Manager
Functional Areas of Responsibility
- Master Agreement preparation and distribution
- Prime contract administration
- Contract document preparation and distribution
- Collection of prime contract insurance and bonds
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare and distribute prime contract documents for review
- Collect insurance and bonds to meet prime contract requirements.
- Prepare and distribute Master Agreements
- Maintain Master Certificates of Insurance
- Equipment lease review
- Maintain document tracking databases
- Maintain contract document files
- Initiate owner financial funding verification
- Support Purchasing with Subcontract and Purchase Order reviews
- Other duties as assigned
Ideal Education, Skills, and Background
- 4-year degree in Risk Management or similar discipline (ex: Legal or Insurance)
- Law degree could serve well in this role
- Industrial Maintenance or Construction market experience preferred.
- Demonstrated capacity to identity opportunities for improvement, and driving the change needed to implement those improvements.
An Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Austin ("The Company") is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company's policy to comply with all federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.
No Third-Party Inquiries Please
- This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
Accessibility Note
- If you are a job seeker with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Teamat (877) 831-1217.
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