Sr MEP QS - DXB - Leading Contractor!

Role overview

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 10+ years of quantity-surveying or commercial experience in building-services or MEP contracting, including 7+ years in the UAE or a comparable GCC market.
• Experience with major-project or portfolio-level valuations, cost reporting, variations, subcontract administration, claims support, negotiations, and final accounts.

Commercial and contractual expertise

• Strong working knowledge of FIDIC-based contracts, remeasurement and lump-sum mechanisms, notices, payment provisions, and UAE construction-commercial practice.
• Manage valuations, measurement, variations, claims, subcontract administration, cost reporting, cash-flow forecasting, margin analysis, and final accounts.
• Prepare and review evidence-based rate build-ups covering labour, plant, materials, preliminaries, and overheads where permitted.
• Interpret scopes, specifications, bills of quantities, amendments, subcontract conditions, and contractual supporting documents.
• Control notice, variation, claims, risk, opportunity, and commercial registers; make timely escalation and recovery recommendations.

Tools and professional practice

• Advanced Excel and competent use of Microsoft Office; CostX, PlanSwift, AutoCAD, or comparable tools.
• Review traceable measurements, reconciliations, forecasts, records, and audit trails prepared by others.
• Demonstrated negotiation, stakeholder-management, delegation, coaching, and team-development capability.
• Excellent written and spoken English; strong commercial judgment, analytical discipline, communication, integrity, and confidentiality.

Preferred qualifications

• Professional membership or progress toward MRICS, CIArb, or an equivalent recognized credential is preferred.
• Arabic, ERP or integrated commercial or project-management platform experience, and additional major MEP, complex portfolio, claims-strategy, or comparable GCC experience are advantageous.
• A valid UAE driving licence may be relevant for site-based assignments where required.

Pay and benefits

• AED 18,000 to AED 20,000 per month, negotiable for the right profile, plus standard labour-law single-status benefits.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial and contractual management of major MEP projects or packages from award through final account.
• Own commercial strategy and lead key negotiations.
• Advise project teams to keep projects commercially on track.
• Drive accurate forecasting, change recovery, and contract administration.
• Manage valuations, measurement, variations, claims, subcontract administration, cost reporting, cash flow, margin analysis, and final accounts.
• Prepare and review rate build-ups, contract documents, supporting records, reconciliations, forecasts, and audit trails.
• Control notice, variation, claims, risk, opportunity, and commercial registers; recommend timely escalation and recovery actions.
• Develop the commercial team through delegation, coaching, and team development.