Quantity Surveyor

LOOM is a vertically integrated design and build firm operating with in-house designers, carpentry, and subcontractors across commercial fit-outs, F&B, hospitality, and residential renovation. The Quantity Surveyor exists to make LOOM's numbers unimpeachable: every quantity measured, every rate defensible, every quotation priced to win at a margin worth winning, and every dollar owed to LOOM claimed on time and collected in full.

The QS is the commercial spine connecting three functions: the designer's drawings and FF&E schedules, the PM's site records and progress, and the client's contract and payments. The full arc:
Take-off → Pricing & Quotation → Cost Control & Variations → Claims & Payments → Final Account. Nothing in that chain rests on estimate where measurement is possible, and nothing is claimed or paid without a document behind it.

The Quantity Surveyor owns measurement, pricing, and commercial documentation across LOOM's project portfolio — from quantity take-offs and BOQ preparation through client quotations, variation pricing, progress claims, contractor bill verification, and final account reconciliation.

Beyond individual projects, the role builds and maintains LOOM's commercial intelligence: the company schedule of rates, vendor rate benchmarking, and the cost tracker — the institutional pricing knowledge that lets LOOM quote fast, win on carpentry and trade rates, and protect margin as it scales.

• Reports to the Founder & CEO, with day-to-day coordination across the Design, Project Management, Sourcing, and Finance teams.

• Maintains the QS tracker and cost trackers weekly ahead of all-hands: quotations out, claims due, VOs pending approval, payments outstanding — with named owners and dates.

• Resolves issues at team level first — identify, discuss, solve — and escalates only with a proposed solution and its cost/margin implication, never just the problem.

• Works to hard commercial deadlines: quotation turnaround, claim submission dates, and payment response timelines are met without being chased.

• Produce quantity take-offs from drawings (PDF and CAD) with an auditable measurement trail — quantities that survive a client's or contractor's challenge because the workings are shown.

• Prepare Bills of Quantities and detailed schedule breakdowns for D&B quotations and tender submissions, structured by trade and aligned to LOOM's quotation template.

• Verify designers' cover sheets, carpentry/joinery lists, and FF&E schedules against drawings before pricing — measurement errors caught at the desk, not on site.

• Conduct site measurements where drawings are absent or unreliable, and the final as-built quantity audit with the PM at project close — the measurement basis for both the client final account and contractor payments.

• Prepare, edit, and issue client quotations — design consultancy and builders' work — itemised, accurate, and formatted on LOOM's standard template with its full contract terms attached, including SOPA provisions.

• Price from LOOM's schedule of rates first, market quotes second, judgement last — and record which basis was used on every line.

• Obtain and compare supplier and subcontractor quotes per trade; a minimum of competitive cover on significant packages, with the comparison filed.

• Support value engineering in client negotiations: costed alternatives with margin impact visible to LOOM internally, so price reductions are traded, never just given.

• Turn quotations around at deal speed — pricing is never the reason LOOM loses a project it should have won.

• Maintain the live cost tracker per project: contract sum, committed…