Senior Quantity Surveyor (Civil)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor (Civil) to join our Oil & Gas EPC project team in the UAE. This role goes beyond traditional quantity surveying, focusing on commercial insight, cost position analysis, and project recovery.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and maintain an integrated cost control framework covering budgets, actual costs, commitments, accruals, ETC, EAC, forecast margins and cash‑flow interfaces.
• Develop and align WBS/CBS structures with schedules, quantities, manpower, procurement activities, subcontract packages and construction work fronts.
• Measure earned versus actual man‑hours and productivity across civil construction activities; track installed versus planned quantities and identify inefficiencies.
• Analyze resource utilization to pinpoint idle or non‑productive manpower and equipment.
• Support the creation and execution of a quantified Project Recovery Plan, including productivity improvements, manpower optimisation, demobilisation strategies, subcontractor performance enhancement, procurement exposure mitigation, indirect‑cost reduction and schedule acceleration.
• Challenge project assumptions and provide fact‑based commercial recommendations using quantity, productivity and cost data.
• Forecast manpower requirements and cost‑to‑complete based on remaining quantities and realistic productivity assumptions.
• Produce weekly and monthly variance reports highlighting root causes, responsible stakeholders, corrective actions, financial impact and recovery actions.

Required profile

• Experienced senior professional in civil quantity surveying with strong commercial acumen.
• Proven ability to establish true cost positions, identify cost leakage and productivity losses.
• Experience supporting project recovery initiatives and delivering data‑driven recommendations.
• Familiarity with large‑scale Oil & Gas EPC construction projects.

Required skills

• Man‑hour and productivity analysis
• WBS/CBS structures
• Cost forecasting and cost control
• Cost and cash‑flow forecasting
• Commitments and accruals management
• Quantity surveying principles
• Primavera P6
• EcoSys
• SAP
• Power Bi
• Advanced Excel
• Oracle