Quantity Surveyor

Job description / Role

You’ll be joining a company that puts people right at the heart of its offer to clients. Arcadis is the leading global design and consultancy firm employing 28,000 people and generating more than €3 billion in revenue every year. Our focus is on bringing together passionate, talented people in high-performing teams to help clients navigate the increasingly complex challenges in the built and natural world.

We are currently seeking a Quantity Surveyor to join the cost and commercial management team, supporting the team in relation to all building projects, across KSA.

Reporting lines:
This role reports to the Senior Quantity Surveyor.

Job description
• Preparing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities with the client
• Undertaking costs analysis for work completed
• Assisting in establishing a client's requirements and undertaking feasibility studies
• Performing risk and value management and cost control
• Advising on procurement strategy
• Identifying, analysing and developing responses to commercial risks
• Preparing and analysing costings for tenders
• Allocating work to subcontractors
• Providing advice on contractual claims
• Analysing outcomes and writing detailed progress reports
• Valuing completed work and arranging payments
• Maintaining awareness of the different building contracts in current use
• Understanding the implications of health and safety regulations

Requirements

The ideal candidate holds an Academic or Bachelor’s Degree in Quantity Surveying or any engineering discipline.

The candidate has a minimum of 5 years’ experience post qualification; professional membership to the RICS will hold an added advantage. Experience within a mixture of residential and infrastructure projects will be ideal whereas the candidate must also have experience on both pre- and post-contract works.

Required experience and competencies for this role:
• Excellent verbal and written skills;
• Strong business acumen;
• Strong understanding of the business to include their business drivers for success, process and approaches to business models;
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills and experience:
• Ability to lead remote and local subordinates, communicate directions and ensure the demands and responsibilities of a distributed workforce are being met;
• Ability to deal with people in a manner which shows sensitivity, tact, and professionalism;
• Builds and maintains strong professional, trusted relationships with management, peers and staff;
• Provides guidance, persuades and influences decision makers;
• Enthusiastic and committed attitude toward work and task completion;

About the Company

ARCADIS is the leading global natural and built asset design & consultancy firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. ARCADIS differentiates through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle, its deep market sector insights and its ability to integrate health & safety and sustainability into the design and delivery of solutions across the globe. We are 28,000 people that generate more than 3 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world.