Quantity Surveyor Manager

Job description / Role

Overview of the role

The Quantity Surveyor Manager plays a critical role in providing commercial support to project teams, ensuring compliance with contractual terms and optimizing financial success for projects. The role involves direct interaction with clients and stakeholders, focusing on cost management, contract administration, and risk mitigation. Success in this role is driven by the ability to lead teams effectively, negotiate favorable terms, and maintain robust financial controls and reporting.

What you will do

Technical responsibilities

• Maintain overall financial control for projects, ensuring timely certification and payments within contractual timescales.
• Prepare detailed turnover and cash forecasts for complex projects, monitor results, and manage project financial reporting.
• Process variations and changes timely and accurately, aligning with contractual and governance requirements.
• Administer contract deliverables, manage claim submissions, and provide comprehensive contract support and negotiation.
• Lead risk management reviews for complex projects, implement risk strategies, and quantify construction works.
• Conduct negotiations on contractual issues and maintain thorough project correspondence using management systems.

People management

• Lead and motivate the Quantity Surveyor team, fostering professional development and ensuring contract comprehension.
• Identify and address training needs for staff to enhance development and project effectiveness.

Process management

• Implement and recommend administrative procedures to enhance operational efficiency and maximize margins.
• Ensure compliance with organizational forms and processes for internal approvals as per group policies.

Customer and stakeholder management

• Communicate complex issues succinctly and manage teams to deliver timely and accurate project outcomes.
• Engage with clients to understand requirements and manage relationships to achieve best commercial results.

Required skills to be successful

• Advanced skills in contract negotiation and administration.
• Strong risk management and change management abilities.
• Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English.
• Proven leadership and team management experience.

What qualifies you for the role

• Degree in a relevant field with a minimum of 10 years experience in major projects, preferably in MEP contracting.
• Extensive experience in Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management with strong understanding of FIDIC conditions.
• Proven track record in managing commercial aspects of large-scale projects, especially in the Middle East region.
• Proficiency in MS Office suites, especially MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project Manager.

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions. The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, energy management, technology infrastructure and digital transformation.

The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services. These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.