Contracts Manager

Department: Project Management

Reports to: Project Management – Lead Manager

Compensation: Hourly: $20 - $30; Commensurate to Skills and Experience 

Hours: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm

Benefits

• Two weeks paid vacation.
• Eight and a half paid holidays per year.
• Two paid flexible holidays per year.
• Paid sick time off.
• ICHRA Health Insurance Reimbursement or Health Insurance Reimbursement.
• 100% Employer Paid Dental & Vision Insurance
• 100% Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Other benefits accrue over the first 3-24 months, including additional paid vacation, no-cost primary medical care membership, 401k, 401k matching, and quarterly profit sharing.
  Place of Work: Corporate Headquarters - 1730 South Street, Redding CA, 96001

Company Overview

Maas Energy Works is the leading developer and operator of agricultural waste-to-energy
systems in the United States. The Company designs, develops, constructs, and operates biogas powered renewable energy generation systems on dairy farms. Our projects include anaerobic digesters, biogas-powered electric generation, and renewable natural gas upgrading.

Position Description

The Company is an industry-leading renewable energy development and operations enterprise. We are seeking a person experienced in business contracts to serve as Contracts Manager. This person will oversee the preparation, execution, and maintenance of various contracts. These contracts include contracts between project owners and contractors and equipment suppliers, dairy farms supplying manure feedstock to our facilities, land leases for the installation of equipment, pipeline easements, and other business contracts necessary to build and operate energy facilities. Familiarity with legal language and contract structure is strongly encouraged. An attorney’s credentials are not necessary but also preferred. 

The Contracts Manager will, personally or via legal team, be responsible for contract administration to organize, prepare, and edit agreements to be executed. The Contract Manager will also manage contract communications with clients and internal stakeholders until final execution and keep the Company’s database and timelines up to date with pertinent information. Additional job tasks are further described below. 

Responsibilities

• Draft agreements for new clients
• Field phone and email inquiries regarding agreements.
• Learn and clearly communicate the basis of agreement language to all parties upon request
• Organize agreement documents (digital & physical)
• Manage contract progress with all active agreement parties that need to be executed and update timelines
• Ensure that communications and progress are properly recorded in the Company database and regularly reported to the Communications Director.

Qualifications & Skills

• Quick Learner
• Self-Motivated
• Outgoing
• Highly Organized
• Willingness to Learn
• Proficient in Microsoft Word & Adobe
• Experience in Contracts/Agreements preferred
• Legal Experience helpful but not required 

Work Environment (Office)
This job mainly operates in a professional office environment. The role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical Demands (Office)
This is largely a stationary role, however some air and ground travel is required. This would require the ability to enter, travel in, and exit vehicles and airplanes.