Senior Cost Consultant

Decima International

Dubai, UAE

Full Time

Senior

Onsite

2 days ago

Cost EstimationCost ControlQuantity SurveyingTender ReconciliationBudget TrackingCost Reporting

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About the Role

Decima International is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Consultant for large-scale data center and mission-critical projects in Dubai. The role involves cost estimation, tender reconciliation, and construction cost control.

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Cost EstimationCost ControlQuantity SurveyingTender ReconciliationBudget TrackingCost Reporting

Responsibilities

Support cost management activities across design, tender, and construction phases of large scale data center and mission critical projects
Prepare, review, and update cost estimates during design stages, ensuring alignment with project scope, design development, specifications, assumptions, and client requirements
Develop cost plans, estimate summaries, quantity take offs, benchmarking inputs, cost breakdowns, and budget validation reports
Review design information, drawings, specifications, technical documents, scope narratives, and project assumptions to identify cost drivers, gaps, risks, and exclusions
Support tender stage cost reconciliation by comparing internal cost estimates, bid prices, contractor submissions, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns
Identify variances between estimates and bid prices, including scope gaps, pricing discrepancies, quantity differences, exclusions, assumptions, escalation, contingency, allowances, and commercial risks
Prepare cost reconciliation reports, bid comparison summaries, tender cost analysis, and recommendation inputs for project leadership and client review
Coordinate with tendering, procurement, contracts, engineering, and commercial teams to support cost validation during the tender process
Support construction phase cost control activities, including budget tracking, committed cost monitoring, forecast updates, cost reporting, and cost to complete analysis
Monitor actual and forecasted costs against approved budgets, identifying variances, trends, risks, and corrective actions
Support review of payment applications, progress claims, variation requests, change orders, and cost impacts during construction
Maintain cost registers, budget logs, change logs, contingency trackers, cost reports, and supporting commercial documentation

Requirements

10+ years of experience in cost consulting, cost estimation, cost control, quantity surveying, commercial management, or project controls within large scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission critical projects
Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, Cost Management, or related field
Strong experience preparing cost estimates during design stages for complex building, infrastructure, industrial, or mission critical projects
Experience supporting tender stage cost reconciliation against contractor bid prices, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns
Experience supporting construction stage cost control, including budget tracking, forecasting, cost reporting, payment review, change management, and cost to complete analysis
Strong ability to review drawings, specifications, BOQs, scope documents, tender documents, bid submissions, and commercial proposals
Strong knowledge of quantity take offs, cost planning, benchmarking, cost breakdown structures, budget validation, and commercial reporting
Ability to identify cost variances, pricing gaps, scope omissions, exclusions, assumptions, escalation impacts, contingency requirements, and commercial risks
Experience coordinating with project management, engineering, procurement, tendering, contracts, planning, construction, and client teams
Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
Strong communication and reporting skills with ability to present cost information clearly to technical and non technical stakeholders
Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple cost deliverables, deadlines, and stakeholder inputs

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Company Overview

Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in.

Responsibilities

Support cost management activities across the design, tender, and construction phases of large scale data center and mission critical projects.
Prepare, review, and update cost estimates during design stages, ensuring alignment with project scope, design development, specifications, assumptions, and client requirements.
Develop cost plans, estimate summaries, quantity take offs, benchmarking inputs, cost breakdowns, and budget validation reports.
Review design information, drawings, specifications, technical documents, scope narratives, and project assumptions to identify cost drivers, gaps, risks, and exclusions.
Support tender stage cost reconciliation by comparing internal cost estimates, bid prices, contractor submissions, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns.
Identify variances between estimates and bid prices, including scope gaps, pricing discrepancies, quantity differences, exclusions, assumptions, escalation, contingency, allowances, and commercial risks.
Prepare cost reconciliation reports, bid comparison summaries, tender cost analysis, and recommendation inputs for project leadership and client review.
Coordinate with tendering, procurement, contracts, engineering, and commercial teams to support cost validation during the tender process.
Support construction phase cost control activities, including budget tracking, committed cost monitoring, forecast updates, cost reporting, and cost to complete analysis.
Monitor actual and forecasted costs against approved budgets, identifying variances, trends, risks, and corrective actions.
Support the review of payment applications, progress claims, variation requests, change orders, and cost impacts during construction.
Maintain cost registers, budget logs, change logs, contingency trackers, cost reports, and supporting commercial documentation.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in cost consulting, cost estimation, cost control, quantity surveying, commercial management, or project controls within large scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission critical projects.
Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, Cost Management, or a related field.
Strong experience preparing cost estimates during design stages for complex building, infrastructure, industrial, or mission critical projects.
Experience supporting tender stage cost reconciliation against contractor bid prices, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns.
Experience supporting construction stage cost control, including budget tracking, forecasting, cost reporting, payment review, change management, and cost to complete analysis.
Strong ability to review drawings, specifications, BOQs, scope documents, tender documents, bid submissions, and commercial proposals.
Strong knowledge of quantity take offs, cost planning, benchmarking, cost breakdown structures, budget validation, and commercial reporting.
Ability to identify cost variances, pricing gaps, scope omissions, exclusions, assumptions, escalation impacts, contingency requirements, and commercial risks.
Experience coordinating with project management, engineering, procurement, tendering, contracts, planning, construction, and client teams.
Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong communication and reporting skills with the ability to present cost information clearly to technical and non technical stakeholders.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple cost deliverables, deadlines, and stakeholder inputs.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on data center, hyperscale, mission critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large scale commercial building projects.
Experience working in a PMC, owner's representative, consultant, cost consultancy, developer, or client side project controls environment.
Previous experience working in Dubai, the UAE, or the wider GCC region.
Professional membership or certification, such as MRICS, RICS, AIQS, AACE, CCP, or equivalent cost management credential.
Experience with FIDIC based contracts, EPC procurement, tender evaluation, cost reconciliation, and commercial risk assessment.
Experience supporting value engineering, estimate at completion reporting, cash flow forecasting, contingency tracking, and change order evaluation.
Familiarity with cost management, project controls, procurement, or document control platforms such as CostX, Candy, SAP, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Procore, Aconex, or similar systems.
Familiarity with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project for schedule cost interface review.
Knowledge of MEP, CSA, ICT, and infrastructure cost elements within complex data center or mission critical projects.

Position Details

Location (On site): Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Position: Senior Cost Consultant.
Position Classification: Salary based full time hours.

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