Quantity Surveyor

Role overview

Tender scope and measurement

• Review tender documents, drawings, specifications, addenda, and contract conditions; identify scope gaps, risks, discrepancies, and ambiguities.
• Raise clarifications and RFIs and prepare tender queries, assumptions, exclusions, and qualifications.
• Prepare quantity take-offs from 2D/3D drawings and BIM models and prepare or check BOQs using the specified measurement method.
• Reconcile quantities against client BOQs and flag variances.

Pricing and tender coordination

• Analyse supplier and subcontractor quotations and prepare comparisons and recommendations.
• Build unit rates and item pricing from company cost data, historical data, and current market rates.
• Contribute to pricing preliminaries, general requirements, temporary works, provisional sums, overheads, profit, contingencies, and risk allowances.
• Coordinate inputs from planning, engineering, procurement, HSE, and commercial teams; assist with commercial submissions, cost breakdowns, cash flow forecasts, and clarification responses.
• Support post-tender meetings, value engineering, negotiations, and BAFO submissions; hand over awarded tender data to the project commercial team.

Records and market tracking

• Maintain tender cost databases, rate libraries, and lessons-learned records.
• Track material and labour price trends in the UAE market.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 5–10 years of quantity surveying or estimating experience, including at least 3 years in a contractor’s tender or estimation department; experience may be adjusted for junior or senior level.
• UAE/GCC project experience is strongly preferred; Abu Dhabi experience is a plus.
• RICS membership or progress toward chartership is desirable.

Technical skills

• Strong knowledge of measurement standards such as POMI, CESMM, or NRM and contract forms, especially FIDIC.
• Proficiency in take-off and estimating software such as CostX, Bluebeam, PlanSwift, or similar; advanced MS Excel skills are required.
• Ability to interpret architectural, structural, civil, and MEP drawings; BIM-based quantification is an advantage.
• MS Project or Primavera knowledge for cost/time integration is an advantage.

Personal qualifications

• High attention to detail and numerical accuracy; able to meet tight tender deadlines and manage several bids at once.
• Good analytical, negotiation, and communication skills in English; Arabic is an advantage.
• Able to coordinate across departments as a team player.

Pay

• AED 5,000–12,000 per month.

Work location

• Work is in person.