Summary
KEO International Consultants is recruiting a Senior Quantity Surveyor for its C-QUEST team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role covers pre-contract measurement and cost planning, interim payment and variation reviews, contract oversight, and project cost and cash flow reporting. Applicants should have 10–15 years of consultancy experience, a bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, and MRICS or equivalent chartered status. Experience with the Standard Method of Measurement, Microsoft Office, MS Project, and Revit is requested.
The posting
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Overview
C-QUEST: The Middle East’s No. 1 Cost Consultant of the Year. For over 24 years, C-QUEST has been a driving force in shaping iconic skylines and sustainable communities across the Middle East. As an award-winning project development and cost consultancy firm, we specialize in delivering tailored, innovative, and sustainable solutions that optimize cost efficiency and commercial excellence across construction and infrastructure projects. With a team of 100+ industry experts, we provide end-to-end project support, ensuring seamless execution from inception to completion. Backed by KEO’s legacy of expertise and integrated services, C-QUEST maintains an independent, client-first approach, ensuring projects are delivered on budget and aligned with sustainability goals.
Responsibilities
Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our award-winning team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
This critical role will be responsible for providing key technical expertise and input at different stages of multiple projects to ensure the highest technical quality of delivery within specific discipline.
We envisage success in this role to include:
- Representing the Firm in its dealings with relevant parties, managing pre contract, measurement and cost planning.
- Communicating with the Manager CQS and project senior cost controllers regarding the project’s status and progress as well as managing the projects in accordance with established KEO Project Management Policy and Procedures Manual.
- Responsible for the review and approval of interim payments, project variations and other financial matters.
- Maintaining communication with the project managers, directors, contractor and client’s site representatives on all project related issues.
- Overseeing the financial and contractual aspects of the project and ensuring the terms of the contract are followed and manages supplemental agreements.
- Providing support to senior management on all financial and contractual matters throughout the project lifecycle.
- Convening and chairing commercial meetings as well as preparing and distributing the meeting minutes.
- Ensuring all cost and quantity records are streamlined and kept in order by the QS’s.
- Assessing, measuring, advising and recommending on cost impact of design changes.
- Preparing Change/Variation Orders and reports upon cost impacts of such orders on the construction budget.
- Preparing draft contractual correspondence and certificates for issue to the client and contractor.
- Preparing project cost and cash flow reports.
- Participating in cost and contractual review meetings.
- Providing general commercial/contractual support to the project teams.
- Ensuring completeness and validity of all contractual requirements.
Qualifications
To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envisage that you will bring a minimum of 10 - 15 years' career experience working in a consultancy with a Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying from a globally recognised university and chartered status, MRICS or equivalent.
- Excellent and effective presentations skills at all levels.
- Ability to implement commercial/contractual matters within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to analyze project variations and changes, prepare project reports, analyze information for adjustments to project budget as necessary to assure a successful project for the Client and the firm.
- Delivery of budgets and pre-contract tender documents.
- Ability to understand, identify and assess project risks.
- Knowledge of Standard Method of Measurement of construction works.
- Intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite including MS Project and Revit.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
C-Quest International is a KEO Allied Practice.
KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments.
For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.
As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognised by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 57th largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2023 WA100 Survey.
KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.
We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.
Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our award-winning team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
This critical role will be responsible for providing key technical expertise and input at different stages of multiple projects to ensure the highest technical quality of delivery within specific discipline.
We envisage success in this role to include:
- Representing the Firm in its dealings with relevant parties, managing pre contract, measurement and cost planning.
- Communicating with the Manager CQS and project senior cost controllers regarding the project’s status and progress as well as managing the projects in accordance with established KEO Project Management Policy and Procedures Manual.
- Responsible for the review and approval of interim payments, project variations and other financial matters.
- Maintaining communication with the project managers, directors, contractor and client’s site representatives on all project related issues.
- Overseeing the financial and contractual aspects of the project and ensuring the terms of the contract are followed and manages supplemental agreements.
- Providing support to senior management on all financial and contractual matters throughout the project lifecycle.
- Convening and chairing commercial meetings as well as preparing and distributing the meeting minutes.
- Ensuring all cost and quantity records are streamlined and kept in order by the QS’s.
- Assessing, measuring, advising and recommending on cost impact of design changes.
- Preparing Change/Variation Orders and reports upon cost impacts of such orders on the construction budget.
- Preparing draft contractual correspondence and certificates for issue to the client and contractor.
- Preparing project cost and cash flow reports.
- Participating in cost and contractual review meetings.
- Providing general commercial/contractual support to the project teams.
- Ensuring completeness and validity of all contractual requirements.
To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envisage that you will bring a minimum of 10 - 15 years' career experience working in a consultancy with a Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying from a globally recognised university and chartered status, MRICS or equivalent.
- Excellent and effective presentations skills at all levels.
- Ability to implement commercial/contractual matters within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to analyze project variations and changes, prepare project reports, analyze information for adjustments to project budget as necessary to assure a successful project for the Client and the firm.
- Delivery of budgets and pre-contract tender documents.
- Ability to understand, identify and assess project risks.
- Knowledge of Standard Method of Measurement of construction works.
- Intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite including MS Project and Revit.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
C-Quest International is a KEO Allied Practice.
KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments.
For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.
As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognised by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 57th largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2023 WA100 Survey.
KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.
We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.