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title: 'Senior Contracts Manager at Blue Energy'
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# Senior Contracts Manager at Blue Energy

- **Company:** Blue Energy
- **Location:** Houston, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blue-energy/31023a79-de18-4843-82ba-66222bd93927

## Job description

Company Overview Blue Energy is transforming how nuclear power gets built. Instead of constructing each plant on-site from scratch - a process that takes 10-15 years and is too expensive and unpredictable to finance - we build our plants like ships: in a factory, on an assembly line, then transport and assemble them at the site. This cuts costs by over 60% and brings plants online in just three years. We also pair natural gas with nuclear at our sites, so customers can start receiving power from gas turbines right away and then switch over to clean nuclear power once it comes online - getting energy to the grid faster while nuclear is being built. Our mission is to make nuclear energy abundant, affordable, and repeatable at global scale. We use proven, already-approved reactor designs and work with existing nuclear and industrial sites, giving us a faster path to regulatory approval. By manufacturing this way, we put nuclear power on the same cost-reduction curve that has made wind, solar, and batteries cheaper every year.

## Role Summary

The Senior Contracts Manager is responsible for the commercial management of an assigned portfolio of contracts across Blue Energy's project and corporate activities. Reporting to the Director of Contracts, the role covers the full contract lifecycle — from drafting and negotiation through administration, change management, claims, and closeout — with a focus on protecting Blue Energy's commercial position and managing risk across the portfolio. The role suits a commercially sharp contracts professional with a background in major capital projects, comfortable working at pace across multiple workstreams and engaging confidently with internal stakeholders, counterparties, and legal counsel. Until the Contracts Administrator position is filled, the Contracts Manager will also own contract administration directly.

## Key Responsibilities

- Draft, review, redline, and negotiate various types of agreements.
- Manage the full contract lifecycle from initiation through closeout.
- Lead the commercial management of each contract.
- Assess, negotiate, and administer change orders, and maintain the change register for each contract.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate commercial, legal, and insurance risks across the assigned contract portfolio, and recommend mitigations to senior management.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and, where needed, general or outside counsel to resolve contractual disputes through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation.
- Manage notices, claims, and warranty and defect matters across the assigned portfolio, issuing and tracking notices within required timeframes and escalating unresolved issues to leadership.
- Ensure contracts comply with applicable laws, regulations, and Blue Energy contracting policies and procedures.
- Maintain organized contract records and commercial reporting – status, milestones, variations, and portfolio risk – and provide timely input to the Director of Contracts’ reports.
- Supervise and develop the Contracts Administrator when that position is filled, delegating administration tasks and reviewing work product; own contract administration directly until the role is filled.

## Qualifications

- 5+ years in contract management, ideally on major capital projects in the oil and gas, or LNG industry.
- Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating a broad range of contractual agreements.
- Strong contract lifecycle management skills, including administration, change and variation management, and cost and risk control.
- Working knowledge of contract law and of commercial risk and insurance provisions.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple contracts and deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Degree in law, business, quantity surveying, engineering, or a related field.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience on major energy, or infrastructure projects.
- Familiarity with broad range of agreements and commercial structures.
- Experience with insurance compliance and commercial risk management.
- Experience within a pre-IPO or high-growth company building out its commercial and contracting function.

We look forward to your application and helping foster an era of safe, clean, affordable, and abundant energy. Blue Energy is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Blue Energy now or in the future.

## About Blue Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blue Energy designs and manufactures modular nuclear power plants using mature light water reactor technology, aiming to deliver scalable, reliable, and affordable clean energy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup stage; funding rounds not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: United States (specific city not publicly disclosed)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jake Jurewicz (CEO & Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Nuclear energy (small modular reactors / advanced nuclear)
- **Target customers**: Utilities, data center operators, industrial off-takers (B2B, large-scale)
- **Mission statement**: “Delivering abundant, reliable, and affordable energy to accelerate a safe and lasting era of progress.”

## Products & Services
- **Blue Energy Modular Nuclear Plant**: A small modular reactor (SMR) design using light water reactors with passive safety features. The plant is prefabricated at shipyards or fab yards, allowing fixed-price contracting and a claimed 3-year timeline to energize the turbine hall with gas (nuclear island follows later). The complete plant is designed for project finance. Blue Energy finances, builds, owns, and operates the plants, selling power through long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; targeting $5,000/kW capital cost and a 3-year build time for initial power generation.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. The NRC (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) is engaged in pre‑application activities (Docket 99902137).
- **Growth Signals**: Active regulatory engagement with the NRC (pre‑application since March 2025); growing team with open roles in engineering, project development, and licensing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modular manufacturing**: Plants are built in existing fab yards and shipyards, reducing on-site construction risk and cost.
- **Fixed-price contracting**: De-risks construction for customers by guaranteeing cost and schedule.
- **Simplified safety**: Reactor building submerged in a water pool provides passive cooling and reduces need for nuclear‑grade components.
- **Hybrid energization timeline**: Turbine hall can be powered by natural gas in ~3 years while the nuclear island is licensed and installed, giving off-takers early power and revenue certainty.
- **Turn-key model**: No upfront capital from customers; Blue Energy owns and operates the plant.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling new nuclear megawatts as fast as possible by working with regulators (NRC) and securing offtake agreements for firm, dispatchable baseload power.
- Targeting accelerating load growth from data centers and heavy industry.
- Building a multi‑disciplinary team of nuclear experts, engineers, and energy operators.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “pragmatic and results‑oriented” with a singular focus on deploying nuclear power this decade. Team includes former NRC leaders, energy executives, and engineers from MIT and Exelon.
- **Work environment**: Not explicitly stated as remote/hybrid; roles appear location‑dependent (likely office/hybrid in the US).
- **Opportunity**: Chance to work on one of the few advanced nuclear designs currently engaged with the NRC, with a clear path to construction.
- **Open roles** (as of mid‑2025): Director of Project Development, Lead Electrical & I&C Engineer, Senior Licensing Engineer, Lead Nuclear and Fuels Engineer, and others.

## Sources
1. [blueenergy.co](https://www.blueenergy.co/)
2. [blueenergy.co/about](https://blueenergy.co/about/)
3. [blueenergy.co/careers](https://blueenergy.co/careers/)
4. [blueenergy.co/team](https://blueenergy.co/team/)
5. [nrc.gov – Blue Energy pre-application](https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-working-with/pre-application-activities/blue-energy)

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