Quantity Surveyor (Landscaping)

Role purpose

Tendering and pricing

• Review tender documents, drawings, specifications, and BOQs; flag scope gaps, exclusions, and risks before pricing.
• Take off quantities for hardscape and softscape works, including paving, planting, irrigation, lighting, and related items.
• Maintain rates for materials, plants, labour, equipment, and subcontract packages; obtain and compare supplier and subcontractor quotations.
• Price installation and maintenance scopes, and prepare tender summaries, preliminaries, overheads, margin, and risk allowances.
• Compile priced BOQs, clarifications, qualifications, programme inputs, and bond or insurance requirements.
• Track bid outcomes and achieved rates; prepare negotiation positions and value-engineering options.

Payment applications and certificates

• Prepare monthly interim client payment applications from measured site progress, with quantities, measurement sheets, photos, and approved inspection requests.
• Reconcile applications against the contract BOQ, variations, materials on site, advance recovery, retention, VAT, back charges, and liquidated damages.
• Submit applications by contract deadlines, follow up valuations, resolve differences, and track amounts applied, certified, invoiced, received, and outstanding.
• Measure subcontractor work and prepare certificates net of retention, advances, recoveries, and back charges.
• Check supplier invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes; maintain subcontractor ledgers and final account positions.

Cost control and contract support

• Set project budgets from winning tenders and report monthly cost against budget, forecast final cost, and margin.
• Prepare and negotiate variation claims, extension-of-time cost impacts, and notices using measured records and rate justifications.
• Support procurement of purchase orders, subcontract packages, and long-lead items such as trees and imported plants.
• Maintain correspondence, instructions, progress records, and drawing revisions affecting quantities.
• Prepare final accounts, completion and handover cost statements, retention releases, and defects-liability records.
• Support maintenance contracts through scope schedules, monthly billing, and annual rate reviews.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 5 to 8 years as a Quantity Surveyor, including at least 3 years in the UAE.
• Experience on landscaping, external works, or infrastructure packages is ideal.
• Proven record pricing landscape tenders and producing monthly payment applications and certificates.
• Working knowledge of hardscape and softscape items, irrigation, plant sourcing, and typical UAE supplier rates.

Skills and tools

• Strong command of measurement methods, BOQ preparation, and rate analysis.
• Sound understanding of FIDIC-based and standard UAE subcontract conditions, including variations, retention, advance payment, and time-bar notices.
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, and pivot tables.
• CostX, Bluebeam, or similar costing or Quantity Surveying software experience is an advantage.

Preferred qualifications

• RICS membership, progress toward RICS, or equivalent professional recognition is preferred.
• A valid UAE driving license and ability to visit sites are preferred.