Technical Manager - Qatar (Onsite)

Role overview

Technical coordination and office operations

• Manage drafting and estimating staff producing shop drawings, CAD designs, and technical specifications for marble cutting and CNC machining.
• Track schedules from field templating to site installation; review technical drawings and specifications for client accuracy before fabrication.
• Resolve technical discrepancies among architects, designers, installation teams, and the fabrication shop.
• Oversee stone slab and block purchasing and inventory; improve filing, documentation, scheduling, and office workflows.
• Manage budgets, invoices, job costing, customer billing, office schedules, and administrative staff; assist HR with onboarding.

Tendering, estimation, and engineering

• Maintain the tender log and communicate submission dates; open and brief RFQ packages and prepare accurate BOQs where handled in-house.
• Prepare project briefs and detailed budgets, select suitable materials, check specified materials against scope, and identify alternatives or possible variations.
• Maintain raw-material price lists with procurement; price variations, issue quotations with agreed terms, and include estimated completion durations.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports and coordinate department updates for pricing new packages.
• Issue or approve technical submittals, workshop and as-built drawings, cutting lists, production job orders, material requisitions, and variation notices.
• Coordinate site, factory, and accounting teams; follow up with outsourced parties on test reports and structural calculations; schedule awarded and pre-awarded projects.
• Develop designs that reuse waste and existing stock and renew showroom designs with Sales and Production.

Quantity surveying and performance

• Open and brief RFQ packages, prepare accurate BOQs where in-house, identify potential variations and claims, and close variations.
• Conduct site surveys and verify compliance with drawings; issue interim payment certificates to clients and subcontractors.
• Monitor lead time, pricing accuracy, awarded packages, actual costs versus budgets, BOQ descriptions, and quantity take-offs.
• Track invoice submission and approval speed, technical-submittal approvals, drawing accuracy, factory-site coordination, order processing, and as-built accuracy.
• Monitor customer feedback on responses to modifications, changes, and variation orders.

Qualifications and experience

• 5+ years of experience.
• Strong understanding of natural stone production processes, CAD drawing, and project management.
• Very good communication skills to manage client, production, installation, and administrative stakeholders.
• Ability to manage drafting and estimating staff and supervise administrative personnel.