Senior Manager - Quantity Surveying

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead preparation, review, and delivery of project estimates, cost plans, and cost evaluations across assigned projects.
• Provide technical leadership on complex, high-value, and high-risk estimating and cost-planning activities.
• Lead contract administration, including variations, contractor claims, contractual correspondence, and final account settlement.
• Assess contractor claims and variations and recommend actions aligned with contractual requirements and project objectives.
• Lead identification, assessment, and mitigation of contractual, cost, and project-related risks.
• Oversee cost forecasting, cost reporting, variation reporting, and project cost-performance monitoring.
• Review cost trends and recommend actions to support project controls and informed decisions.
• Coordinate quantity surveying resources, workload allocation, and technical quality across programmes and projects.
• Build relationships with project teams, Procurement, Finance, Legal, consultants, and contractors.

Knowledge, skills, and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Construction Management, Cost Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Ten years of overall experience, including five to seven years of relevant experience in the UAE.
• Experience working on refurbishment or fit-out projects in the aviation industry.
• Strong knowledge of cost planning, estimating, quantity surveying, contract administration, claims, variations, cost reporting, and final account management.
• Experience with Cost OS or equivalent estimating software.
• Proficiency in MS Project, AutoCAD, and MS Office Suite.
• Strong stakeholder management, team coordination, and communication skills.
• RICS or equivalent professional certification is preferred.

Contract term

• The role is a 12-month contract, renewable on an annual basis.

Availability