Quantity Surveyor

About Amentum

About the opportunity

Commercial and cost management

• Review contractor payment applications and assess contractual entitlement.
• Verify completed works against contract requirements, progress, and payment mechanisms.
• Prepare payment assessments and commercial recommendations.
• Monitor project costs, commitments, liabilities, and expenditure against approved budgets.
• Maintain accurate commercial records and reporting.

Change management

• Assess notified changes, variations, compensation events, and their commercial impact.
• Evaluate contractor quotations, cost submissions, risks, and programme implications.
• Prepare independent estimates and commercial assessments.
• Maintain change registers and reflect approved changes in project forecasts and contract values.
• Identify emerging commercial risks and opportunities.

Forecasting, reporting, and contract administration

• Maintain cost reports, forecast final project costs, and track actual and forecast expenditure against approved budgets.
• Analyse cost trends, risks, and commercial performance; provide regular reports and recommendations to project leadership.
• Support commercial assurance, governance, and audit activities.
• Administer construction contracts, participate in risk management and early warning processes, and advise on commercial implications.
• Monitor contractual obligations, milestones, and compliance requirements, and build effective relationships with contractor commercial teams.

Stakeholder management

• Collaborate with project controls, engineering, construction, finance, and contractor teams.
• Provide clear commercial analysis and advice for decision-making and present complex matters concisely.

Essential experience and qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Proven quantity surveying or commercial management experience on construction, infrastructure, engineering, or major capital projects.
• Experience administering FIDIC, NEC4, or other recognized international construction contracts.
• Strong knowledge of payment mechanisms, change management, cost control, forecasting, and contractor commercial management.
• Ability to assess contractor submissions and provide robust commercial recommendations.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, reporting, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Fluent written and spoken Arabic and English.

Desirable experience

• NEC4 ECC experience, particularly Option A.
• RICS, CIOB, or equivalent professional membership, or working toward membership.
• Experience in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, or other international major-project environments.
• Client-side, PMC, or programme management experience.

Culture and inclusion