Senior Quantity Surveyor (Pre Contract Services)

Our dedicated Cost Management team at RLB KSA is responsible for seeing a project through from the initial concept stages to completion. Their main task is to break down projects into stages, taking responsibility for monitoring and managing the programme, cost, quality, and risk of each stage of the project. We pride ourselves on the quality of our service to our clients and enjoy long term relationships with them.

We are a sector focused business actively operating and delivering within the Commercial, Residential, Education, Hospitality, Data Centre, Mixed Use, Sports, and Retail sectors. Our Cost Management team works closely with clients, advising them on financial matters, project risks, procurement, contractual and contract matters using our depth of experience to provide an informed, independent professional opinion.

Based in our client office in Riyadh, you will be supporting our client in the delivery of various projects. This role will therefore suit a well rounded strategic and dynamic individual with experience of providing Cost Management services on complex programmes of work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish the structure and format of a cost plan / estimate.
• Produce cost plans / estimates throughout the different design stages in accordance with NRM1 format for the concept design, NRM2 for the detailed design.
• Evaluate design options and alternatives.
• Benchmarking at the various design stages.
• Monitor the cost implication of design stages and track against the budget.
• Reconcile the variance at each design stage and report on reasons for variance.
• Manage value engineering exercises and advise on cost implications.
• Attend and participate in value engineering workshops.
• Prepare and agree the structure of tender documents.
• Preparation of Pre Tender Estimates.
• Managing a competitive tender process including managing tender queries.
• Managing and contributing to structured and documented tender evaluations.
• Preparation of contract documents and advice on contract conditions.
• A track record of working with and managing teams and projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines.

Person Specification:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar technical discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years in Saudi Arabia.
• Strong technical delivery experience.
• A chartered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - MRICS (preferred)
• Ability to successfully manage complex projects in a proactive and diligent ma
• Strong feasibility and cost planning experience
• Experience of providing procurement advice, tender documentation and pre contract services
• Client facing, ensuring a high standard of technical delivery
• A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines
• A team player, outgoing, flexible, enthusiastic and ambitious

Company Overview:

With 200 KSA staff and 4,500 worldwide, Rider Levett Bucknall has a truly global reach, and with such scope can offer a local presence to its clients almost without exception. We are committed to our core services and pride ourselves on our dedication to customer care and leading edge service provision.

We are an award winning, leading independent firm providing our clients with some of the most comprehensive and forward thinking advice available.

We offer a range of complementary quantity surveying, project management, building surveying and advisory services from conception, through design and construction and operational performance of facilities to their eventual disposal or reuse.

Our clients have rapid access to the latest industry intelligence and innovations, which serve to enhance value and mitigate risk. We provide expert management of the relationship between value, time and cost from inception to completion. We do this through our global and local team of experts, who possess a passion for both core services and innovation.

We are committed to developing new services and techniques aimed at enhancing our clients' businesses in the long term.

Please note that only candidates who meet the above requirements will be considered for this role. We appreciate your interest in Rider Levett Bucknall and wish you the best of luck in your job search.