Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job description / Role

Belong, connect, grow, with KBR!

The KBR team of teams delivers future-forward science, technology and engineering solutions and mission-critical services that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most important objectives, while also helping achieve their sustainability goals.

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design and engineering capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

Location

Abu Dhabi, UAE

The role

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, the Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for change management, payment review and processing, contract administration, estimating, cost control, cashflow, and reporting on allocated work packages.

Project description

The project is a diverse portfolio of projects that contribute to Abu Dhabi's growth. This includes developing service networks for newly developed land and community facilities such as schools, mosques, parks, etc. KBR will provide project management consultancy services in project planning, controls, change management, design and engineering management, and implementation of the development and early works packages.

Main responsibilities

• Oversee, review and track all potential change (PVRs) and variations (VOs) including reporting
• Oversee, review and track all payments for consultants and contractors
• Develop, maintain and review consultant deployment schedules
• Contract administration
• Preparation and maintenance of estimates, budgets, cost reports and cashflows
• Liaise with planning department and review value of work done (VOWD)
• Review and comment on bids and contract award recommendation reports
• Estimating of value engineering options and lifecycle costs
• Analysing and reporting on consultants and contractors cost reports, cash flows and deployment forecasting
• Co-ordination with package managers, consultants and contractors
• Preparation of monthly and weekly reports

Experience, skills and knowledge

• BSc Quantity Surveying
• MRICS Membership
• Minimum 15 years overall experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a similar role
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in the Middle East
• Sound knowledge of all engineering and commercial aspects of major asset and civil infrastructure projects including roads, bridges and utilities
• Experience in conceptual estimating, cost planning, expenditure profiling, cost reporting and cost forecasting
• Experienced user of MS Office, advanced MS Excel user and Primavera Contracts Manager an advantage
• Fluent English both written and spoken, Arabic speaking advantageous

Competencies

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Contract and commercial awareness
• Strong customer focus
• Planning and organising
• Accepts responsibility
• HSE awareness

About the Company

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.

KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.