Contracts & QS Manager (Construction)

Overview

Main Responsibilities

• Review and administer main contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, and commercial documents, ensuring compliance with contractual terms, obligations, and deadlines.
• Identify contractual and commercial risks and provide recommendations to management.
• Manage contractual correspondence, notices, EOTs, claims, disputes, and maintain the contract register.
• Manage project budgets, cost plans, forecasts, and commercial reports, monitoring costs against approved budgets and identifying deviations.
• Review BOQs, quantities, drawings, specifications, and scope of works, and ensure accurate quantity take-offs and cost estimates.
• Prepare and review interim payment applications, valuations, subcontractor/supplier payments, and monitor committed costs, actual costs, and projected final costs.
• Manage variations and change orders, ensuring proper documentation, pricing, approval, and commercial recovery.
• Prepare, evaluate, negotiate, and follow up claims related to additional works, delays, disruption, and EOTs.
• Review and negotiate subcontract agreements and commercial terms, and monitor subcontractor performance, compliance, payments, variations, claims, and final accounts.
• Support tendering and procurement activities through review of tender documents, pricing, quotations, commercial comparisons, and identification of risks and opportunities.
• Manage client and subcontractor final accounts, ensuring all variations, claims, deductions, contra charges, and outstanding commercial matters are properly addressed and closed.
• Prepare monthly commercial reports and dashboards covering project profitability, cash flow, costs, variations, claims, and forecasts.

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 8–12 years of relevant experience in construction contracts and quantity surveying, preferably within the UAE.
• Strong knowledge of construction contracts, commercial management, cost control, variations, claims, and final accounts.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills.
• Good knowledge of FIDIC contracts and UAE construction practices.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data validation.