Managing Quantity Surveyor

Role overview

Commercial and cost responsibilities

• Manage the quantity surveying team and ensure accurate assessments, consistent standards, and timely deliverables.
• Oversee budgets, cost plans, cash-flow forecasts, and anticipated final costs; identify potential overruns and recommend corrective action.
• Review consultants’ cost estimates, bills of quantities, and tender documents for completeness and alignment with project scope.
• Support tender evaluations, bidder clarifications, and procurement recommendations.
• Review payment applications and assessments, and provide substantiated recommendations within PMC authority.
• Assess variations and prepare cost estimates for project elements.
• Review claims with contracts, planning, and delivery teams; assess contractual entitlement and prepare claims and Early Warning Trackers.
• Monitor cost effects of design changes, ground conditions, sequencing, and package interfaces.
• Maintain payment, variation, claim, and commercial-risk registers; report budget performance, forecasts, liabilities, and client decisions needed.
• Coordinate commercial issue resolution, support negotiations and final accounts, and ensure compliance with contracts and delegated authority.

Qualifications and knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in quantity surveying, commercial management, civil engineering, or a related discipline.
• Chartered membership of RICS or an equivalent recognized professional qualification is preferred.
• Strong understanding of FIDIC-based contracts and bespoke consultancy agreements.
• Thorough knowledge of measurement methods, bills of quantities, rate build-ups, cost estimating, and infrastructure cost benchmarking.
• Knowledge of budget management, cash-flow forecasting, contingency management, anticipated final-cost reporting, and claims evidence.
• Understanding of valuation principles, contractual entitlement, change control, PMC responsibilities, delegated authority, and client approval requirements.

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