Senior Quantity Surveyor

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Manage quantity surveying and commercial activities through the project lifecycle.
• Prepare and verify bills of quantities, take-offs, cost estimates, and measurements of completed works.
• Monitor budgets, costs, commitments, forecasts, expenditure, and variances; prepare cost and commercial reports.
• Review payment applications, prepare valuations, and manage subcontractor and supplier accounts.
• Assess variations, change orders, claims, extensions of time, and cost implications.
• Review contracts, agreements, purchase orders, quotations, and commercial documentation.
• Support tendering, pricing, bid evaluation, procurement, and subcontractor selection.
• Negotiate commercial terms and review contractual obligations, risks, and entitlements.
• Support contract administration, compliance, dispute resolution, and commercial claims.
• Maintain project commercial records; prepare final accounts and support close-out.
• Liaise with project stakeholders, attend meetings, mentor junior staff, and improve cost-control and reporting processes.

Quantity surveying and commercial areas

• The posting lists experience in some or all of quantity surveying, estimation, cost planning and control, budgeting, take-offs, bills of quantities, measurement, valuations, payment applications, variations, change orders, claims, and contract administration as preferred.
• Other listed areas include subcontract management, procurement, tendering, bid evaluation, negotiations, final accounts, cost and cash-flow forecasting, commercial reporting, project financial control, value engineering, supplier management, and risk management.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior quantity surveying, surveying, commercial engineering, commercial management, or similar role.
• Strong construction measurement, cost-management, commercial-practice, contract, and contract-administration knowledge.
• Experience managing budgets, valuations, variations, claims, and final accounts.
• Strong analytical, numerical, negotiation, communication, reporting, documentation, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, and contracts and manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• A bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Commercial Management, or a related discipline.
• RICS membership or certification is highly desirable; 7+ years of relevant experience is preferred.
• Excel and relevant quantity-surveying or cost-management software proficiency; AutoCAD, BIM, ERP, or project-management systems are advantageous.

Contracts and project experience

• Experience with FIDIC or other common construction contract forms is preferred.
• Preferred project sectors include building, commercial and residential development, hotels and hospitality, infrastructure, roads, civil engineering, MEP, industrial projects, mixed-use development, fit-out, refurbishment, and real estate.

What is offered

• Full-time or part-time employment options and a competitive compensation package.
• Collaborative working environment, career advancement, and training and professional-development opportunities.
• Exposure to major construction and infrastructure projects and project cost-control and commercial performance responsibilities.

Application details

• Applicants are asked to include details of their experience, project sectors and values, contracts and FIDIC, valuations, variations and claims, procurement, final accounts, software, qualifications, UAE/GCC experience, and achievements.