Quantity Surveyor (Landscaping)

About the role

The Quantity Surveyor owns the commercial side of Asico's landscaping work in Dubai, covering pricing, tendering and payment applications and certificates for hardscape and softscape installation and maintenance contracts. The role protects margin by pricing correctly at bid stage and ensuring every completed quantity and approved variation is paid on time. It reports to the Head of Projects.

Key responsibilities

• Tendering and pricing: lead the commercial build-up of each bid, review tender documents, drawings, specifications and BOQs, carry out quantity take-offs for hardscape and softscape, maintain a rate database, obtain and compare supplier and subcontractor quotations, and prepare tender pricing summaries, preliminaries, overheads, margin and risk allowances.
• Payment applications to clients: prepare monthly interim payment applications from measured site progress, reconcile them against the contract BOQ, variations, advances and retention, and submit them within contract deadlines.
• Payment certificates to subcontractors and suppliers: measure and value subcontractor work, check supplier invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes, and maintain subcontractor ledgers.
• Cost control and contract support: set up project budgets, report monthly cost against budget, prepare and negotiate variation claims and extension of time costs, support procurement, maintain contract records, and prepare final accounts and completion cost statements.
• Support maintenance contracts with scope schedules, monthly billing and annual rate reviews.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related field.
• 5 to 8 years as a QS, with at least 3 years in the UAE, ideally on landscaping, external works or infrastructure packages.
• Proven record pricing landscape tenders and producing monthly payment applications and certificates.
• Working knowledge of hardscape and softscape items, irrigation systems and plant sourcing, including typical UAE supplier rates.
• Membership or progress toward RICS, or equivalent professional recognition, preferred.
• Valid UAE driving licence and ability to visit sites preferred.

Required skills

• Measurement methods, BOQ preparation and rate analysis.
• FIDIC-based and standard UAE subcontract conditions, including variations, retention, advance payment and time bar notices.
• Advanced Excel (formulas, lookups, pivot tables).
• Experience with a costing or QS package such as CostX or Bluebeam is an advantage.
• Ability to read landscape, architectural and irrigation drawings and detect quantity differences between revisions.
• Clear written English; Arabic is an advantage.

What we offer

• Monthly compensation.
• Health coverage and work permit.
• Professional development opportunities and resources.
• A dynamic, collaborative work environment with growth potential.