Senior Quantity Surveyor

Kuwait

Ref: LP127-1361

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

- The production of preliminary budgets at the inception stage of works.
- Undertaking value management and engineering cost assessments.
- The development of detailed working budgets.
- The production and ongoing management of cost expenditure forecasts
- Financial monitoring and reporting and liaising with the project team.
- Prescribing and implementation of procurement strategies.
- The procurement of major materials to meet project schedule.
- Managing the tender process for the appointment of contractors and subcontractors, including the preparation of tender and contract documents.
- Administration o f financial and contractual matters relating to contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, including payments, valuation of variations, final accounts and claims management.
- Analysing and managing risk.
- Management responsibility QS team.

Requirements

- Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent degree
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience within construction industry
- Preference for Chartered
- A broad range of experience relating to buildings, civil engineering, mechanical and electrical works
- Extensive experience working with FIDIC suite of contracts
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Good people management and organisational skills
- IT proficient, experience using specialist construction software is beneficial
- Sound commercial and contractual awareness
- Strong negotiation skills
- Good understanding of contract law

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions: