Associate Director - Estimation

Job description / Role

Associate Director - Estimation: (UAE)

Faithful+Gould are seeking to expand the commercial services team based from UAE. You will be responsible for heading up estimation services delivery of large projects - typically residential, infrastructure, retail (Malls), and/or mixed-use schemes and/or hospitality and leisure, plus support country management in both win work capacity and client care. Candidate deployment to be in Abu Dhabi, but willing to work across UAE in countrywide role.

Responsibilities
- Estimating and benchmarking large projects / programmes
- Client and stakeholder management
- Executive level reporting
- Internal programme management
- Internal governance management
- Managing and assisting technical teams to prepare task orders / work packages
- Reporting and leveraging on project commercial performance incl internal profit and loss
- Ensure time charge hours properly captured and invoiced on time
- Managerial / Client facing position
- Supporting win work strategy including bid writing and key account management

Requirements

Qualifications
- QS Degree from RICS recognised UK university
- Professional Membership i.e. MRICS

Essential Criteria
- In-depth knowledge and experience estimation of projects at pre contract stages including traditional plant/labour/material analysis, resource loading programmes, m2 pricing and benchmarking etc.
- Contractor (Middle East) background in estimating department with minimum of 8 years total demonstrable expense in tendering
- Middle East construction market experience in last 4-8 years preferable
- Preferable PQS / client-side previous experience of min 2 years with experience in cost planning, procurement and tendering, contract administration etc.
- Good contract, commercial and financial understanding, minimum 10 years post qualification experience
- Excellent written English for preparation of task orders, contract letters and communications
- Good negotiation skills to agree sub-contracts with third parties
- Previous experience in government departments/client-side roles
- Large company and project financial control systems use and understanding
- Large company's internal governance procedures will be an added factor
- Good attention to detail and ability to review invoices and contracts prior to issue
- Preferable to have previous experience of FIDIC Contracts and CostX QS software or similar used for preparation of estimates, cost plans and BoQs

The Individual
- Strong contractual, commercial and financial knowledge
- Good communication skills
- Experienced in client's presentations / submissions regarding cost management deliverables
- Politically aware
- Team player, team leader
- Ambition to develop themselves and the business

SNC Lavalin's Faithful+Gould business is one of the world's leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients' interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting - and then developing - brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It's precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Rewards & Benefits

- We offer an excellent package which includes:
- A competitive salary
- Transportation allowance
- Medical and life insurance cover
- 22 calendar days annual leave
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Assistance Programme - 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants.

About the Company

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.