Quantity Surveyor

Job description / Role

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KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic, 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.

Role overview

KBR is looking for a quantity surveyor with onshore site experience in mega EPC projects. The role is based in Abu Dhabi for a PMC project.

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering is a must.

Responsibilities

• Act as the focal point at the site for commercial and contract-related issues. Liaise with the company’s departments, contractors, and consultants to safeguard the company’s commercial interests and targets and ensure smooth contract operations.
• Coordinate with project team members, including proponent departments, during project execution. Provide up-to-date construction progress reports and coordinate with the project team to ensure site works follow project specifications, approved drawings, and overall standards.
• Advise the company’s construction team and other project personnel on cost control and the cost and contractual implications of changes to specifications, revisions, and site working conditions. Ensure the financial and contractual provisions of assigned contracts are interpreted and implemented correctly to protect the company’s financial interests.
• Prepare monthly valuations of work completed on various projects in liaison with the respective project teams, based on approved contract rates. Alert the project team and/or company site representative to corrective actions needed to avert potential claims.
• Reconcile all company-issued materials and ensure excess materials are returned to the company in their original condition.
• Evaluate variation proposals submitted by contractors for assigned construction projects.
• Support the contracts engineer in evaluating contractor claims and maintain records of potential claims.
• Prepare monthly cash flow forecasts and accruals for assigned projects and submit them to the finance control department.
• Prepare contract closeout documents and final accounts, including final remeasurement of quantities, where applicable, using physical measurements or as-built drawings.
• Ensure applicable liquidated damages are applied to projects completed beyond the contractual completion date.
• Verify contractors’ payment proposals in a timely manner, negotiate disputed items with contractors, and send the company’s response within the contractual time frame.
• Properly administer provisional sums included in assigned construction contracts and provide cost estimates for provisional sums using contract rates, if needed.

Interested and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply. Suitable candidates will be contacted directly.

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.