Managing Quantity Surveyor

Hill International is recruiting a Managing Quantity Surveyor in Abu Dhabi to lead cost management across several infrastructure packages for Modon, working within a project management consultancy’s delegated authority.

The post carries the quantity surveying team, so the holder sets assessment standards and keeps deliverables to time, and owns budgets, cost plans, cash flow forecasts and anticipated final cost reporting, identifying overruns and recommending corrective action.

The work runs across consultants’ estimates, bills of quantities and tender documentation, tender evaluation and bidder clarifications, and the assessment of contractor and consultant payment applications with substantiated recommendations. Variations are assessed on scope, quantity, rate, contractual basis and budget effect, and the commercial side of claims is reviewed with the contracts, planning and delivery teams.

The advertisement asks for extensive claims experience, the ability to test contractual entitlement and to prepare claims and early warning trackers, and consolidated payment, variation, claim and commercial risk registers kept with supporting records. A degree in quantity surveying, commercial management or civil engineering is required and chartered RICS membership is preferred.

Hill looks for a grounding in FIDIC based contracts and bespoke consultancy agreements, in measurement methods, rate build ups and infrastructure cost benchmarking, and a clear understanding of consultancy responsibilities, delegated authority and client approval requirements. The posting states no salary and no closing date.