Managing Quantity Surveyor

Managing Surveyor will oversee cost management, payment reviews, variations, claims and final accounts across multiple infrastructure packages.

• Manage the quantity surveying team, ensuring accurate assessments, consistent standards and timely deliverables.
• Oversee budgets, cost plans, cash-flow forecasts and anticipated final costs, identifying potential overruns and recommending corrective action.
• Review consultants’ cost estimates, bills of quantities and tender documents for completeness and alignment with the project scope.
• Support commercial tender evaluations, bidder clarifications and procurement recommendations.
• Review contractor and consultant payment applications and associated assessments, providing substantiated recommendations within the PMC’s authority and have a robust knowledge of the applicable methods of measurement
• Assess variations, including scope, quantities, rates, contractual basis and budget implications.
• Ability to prepare cost estimates for various project elements.
• Review the commercial aspects of claims in coordination with the contracts, planning and delivery teams.
• Monitor the cost implications of design changes, ground conditions, construction sequencing and interfaces between packages.
• Maintain consolidated payment, variation, claim and commercial risk registers with clear supporting records.
• Prepare commercial reports highlighting budget performance, forecast final costs, outstanding liabilities and required Client decisions.
• Coordinate with Modon, consultants and contractors to resolve commercial issues, scope gaps and potential duplicate payments.
• Support commercial negotiations, final-account reconciliation and contract closeout.
• Ensure commercial activities comply with project contracts, Client approval procedures and the PMC’s delegated authority.
• Have strong contractual knowledge and extensive experience in claims procedures, with the ability to assess contractual entitlement and prepare claims and Early Warning Trackers.

• Bachelor’s degree in quantity surveying, Commercial Management, Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartered membership of RICS, or an equivalent recognized professional qualification, preferred. Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• Strong understanding of FIDIC-based contracts, bespoke consultancy agreements
• Thorough knowledge of measurement methods, bills of quantities, rate build-ups, cost estimating and infrastructure cost benchmarking.
• Sound understanding of contractual entitlement, valuation principles, change control and the assessment of supporting evidence for claims.
• Knowledge of budget management, cash-flow forecasting, contingency management and anticipated final-cost reporting.
• Understanding of the commercial implications of design changes, package interfaces, ground conditions and construction sequencing.
• Clear understanding of PMC responsibilities, delegated authority and Client approval requirement