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Charlouie Antoque, Cost Control Engineer

Charlouie Antoque

Cost Control Engineer·Barari Natural Resources LLC

United Arab Emirates

Bachelor's degree, Registered Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE),

Work experience

Total years of experience: 20 years, 1 months

Cost Control Engineer

September 2025 - Present

Barari Natural Resources LLC

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

September 2025 - Present

• Develop baseline project budgets based on the latest approved tender submissions, ensuring accuracy and alignment with project scope and client requirements.
• Prepare updated and revised budgets using current LPOs issued to approved suppliers, subcontractors, labor, and equipment providers, utilizing data extracted from the company’s ERP (Oracle Fusion) system.
• Review and validate cost codes for materials and subcontracted activities to ensure proper classification and consistency within the ERP cost-coding structure for accurate cost tracking and reporting.
• Analyze and prepare cost build-up rates using the latest LPOs and ERP resource data, consolidating refined information into standardized cost control reporting templates.
• Produce monthly cost reports reflecting updated budgets, year-end forecasts, estimate-to-complete (ETC), and cost-at-completion (CAC), and submit these to the Cost Control Line Manager for review.
• Evaluate Purchase Requisitions (PRs) submitted by site teams to ensure quantities, specifications, and pricing comply with the approved budget, BOQ, and project requirements (within the ERP system).
• Assess and verify Local Purchase Orders (LPOs) from the procurement team to ensure rates are within budget and fully compliant with project specifications and approved supplier agreements (ERP-based processes).
• Review Vendor Payment Certificates (VPCs) to confirm submitted quantities and rates remain within budget limits and align with approved WIRs, MIRs, Shop Drawings, and measurement sheets.
Company industry:
Agriculture & Crop Production
Job role:
Construction and Building

Quantity Surveyor

August 2024 - September 2025

Al Ryum Group of Company

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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August 2024 - September 2025

Responsibilities:
• Prepare payment application and interim valuation to client as per completed work done at site.
• Prepare vendor payment certificate.
• Evaluate WIR (Work Inspection Request), ensure that specific work activity and Qty. should be aligned in accordance with the items in the BOQ for claim substantiation purposes.
• Provide tender analysis through cost comparative analysis (CCA) in evaluating and recommending/awarding for selection of contractors.
• Administer contractor contracts, ensuring compliance with their contract’s specific terms and conditions in accordance with their LPO.
• Prepare analyze and handle variations and change orders, ensure to consider all cost and time impact.
• Progress monitoring through conducting site visits and measurement checking of the work done by the contractors.
Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Civil Engineering

Quantity Surveyor/Contract Administrator

February 2018 - January 2024

CCK Builders and Construction Supply

Davao, Philippines

February 2018 - January 2024

Key Achievements:

• Provide cost advice alternatives to the top managers for cost cutting without compromising project quality and maintain project timeline resulting to 5% overall cost saving.

Responsibilities:
• Conducting feasibility studies for cost estimation and project viability.
• Prepare budget cost and detailed estimate, ensure the design and specification are considered and stay within budget.
• Assessing cost impact analysis when design change occur and suggest/ofer alternative solutions and remedies.
• Prepare contract and tendering documentations and specifying items in the bill of quantities (BOQ).
• Provide tender analysis through cost comparative analysis (CCA) in evaluating and recommending/awarding for selection of contractors.
• Securing costs remains within budget by close monitoring and control project expenditure.
• Cost report preparation as well as presentation to the top managers and stakeholders.
• I administer contractor contracts, ensuring the compliance with their contracts specific terms and conditions.
• Prepare analyze and handle variations and change orders, ensure to consider all cost and time impact.
• I lead dispute resolution involving contractors and suppliers claims.
• Progress monitoring through conducting site visit and measurement checking of the work done by the contractors.
• Prepare payment application and interim valuation to client as per completed work done at site.
• I am responsible for the issuance of payment certificate to contractors and suppliers.
Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Civil Engineering

Cost Control Engineer

May 2015 - September 2015

Amana Steel Buildings

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

May 2015 - September 2015

Key Achievements:
• Implementing project tracking cost up to date and comparing it to the budget cost against the actual
project cost leading us to discover cost savings particularly in reinforcing steel bars.

Responsibilities:
• I carried out accurate take of qty. of structural and architectural items for budgeting and progress monitoring purposes.
• I liaise with engineering/design department in design concept and specification matters.
• Responsible of evaluating and approving material request from construction/operation team, as well as local purchase order (P.O.) ensuring within budget in both quantity and rate wise.
• Prepare payment application to client base on evaluated work progress at site thru site walk inspection with the engineers and based on approved document submittals (e.g. approved RFIs, Engineers Site Instructions, and equivalents).
• I was responsible to compile variation claims to client base on available approved document submittals (e.g. approved RFIs, Engineers Site Instructions, and equivalents).
• Evaluate and Prepare payment certificate/recommendation to supplier/subcontractor according to site progress based on approved RFIs, Material submittals, Method Statements and equivalents.
• Prepare and submit monthly cost report and discuss with the commercial manager and other stakeholders.
• I assist to Contracts Administration Manager in conducting kick of meeting.
• Task in analyzing project drawings and specification with other relevant documents in order to prepare and create comprehensive project cost/baseline budget and have it submit and present to the commercial manager for approval.
• Provide assistance in the evaluation and preparation of tender bid documents in accordance with the guidelines from FIDIC in relation to the general condition of the contract up to its specific conditions.
• Share insights in relation to project cost and provide recommendation during the course of selection, bidding and awarding process of contractors and suppliers.
Company industry:
Construction & Building

Quantity Surveyor/Estimator

September 2014 - May 2015

ALJABER ENGINEERING

Doha, Qatar

September 2014 - May 2015

Key Achievements:
• Culminating strong team work through initiative of collaboration and continuing coordination with the
engineers, design architects, contractors, stakeholders and among other involve in the project.

Responsibilities:
• I formulate accurate quantity take of of structural and architectural related items for budgeting and progress monitoring purposes.
• Quantify and measure required materials on require on site as well as labor and equipment.
• I review and evaluate material request from construction/operation team, ensuring within budget quantity wise.
• I examine and evaluate local purchase orders, ensuring that items ordered are within budget requirements in both quantity and rate wise.
• I liaise inquiry to supplier/subcontractor in matters of their ofer inclusions and special prices.
• Prepare monthly report and discuss with the commercial manager.
• Negotiate and evaluate tender ofer from subcontractors and suppliers.
• Check claims/invoices from supplier/subcontractors and prepare payment certificate/recommendation.
• Prepare variation claims to client ensuring all cost incurred after considering and analyzing all approve shop drawings and specification submittals.
• Prepare payment application and interim valuation to client as per completed work done at site.
• Maintain regular site visit to conduct project monitoring progress to measure updated completed work done at site.
Company industry:
Construction & Building

Quantity Surveyor/Contract Administrator/Estimator

September 2013 - September 2014

Leighton Contractor Philippines Inc. (JV)

Davao, Philippines

September 2013 - September 2014

Key Achievements:
• Gain project cost savings by negotiating suppliers and subcontractors through haggling their best price and final ofer.

Responsibilities:
• I prepare Comparative Cost Assessment for subcontractors/suppliers.
• I generate accurate take of quantities for package purposes and subcontract progress monitoring as well.
• I assess contractor/supplier quotation/ofer in accordance with the required specifications and design requirements.
• Facilitate/Organize and coordinate to supplier/contractor of their material lead time and deliveries, checking the packing list and P.O. items against actual deliveries.
• Finalizing packages, preparing/evaluating documents such as contract agreements, scope of work, subcontract work, responsibility matrix, schedule of prices, schedule of work, tender drawings and specifications.
• I deal with subcontract works, payments, site instructions, variations and correspondence etc., generally, I am administering contracts of sub-contractors and supplier and manage the budget and cost control.
• I draft, prepare and review contract documents, ensuring to follow the guidelines of FIDIC in terms of the stipulations in the general conditions of the contracts and its specific conditions.
• I was involve in the negotiation of contracts to both the clients, contractors, suppliers, vendors and other stakeholders to achieve the specific project requirements.
• Updating the ongoing compliance what is specified in the general nor the specific terms and conditions of the contractors, suppliers and vendors contracts by monitoring its (e.g. warranty, risk, security and other specific required bonds and the like).
• I Ensure and organize record filling of all updated, accurate contract documents including new amendments.
Company industry:
Electric Power Production & Transmission

Project Engineer/Site Supervisor/Safety

November 2012 - September 2013

Oficer, PRINDI Construction

Davao, Philippines

November 2012 - September 2013

• Manage to squeeze construction plan schedule, project deliverables and thorough project monitoring achieving project completion 3 months ahead of schedule.

Responsibilities:
• I prepare and plan construction schedule according to the contract scope of work, targeted project deliverables, resources and goals timeline.
• I present technical support to all project team involve and resolve identified potential engineering issues arise during the course of the project.
• Coordinate with engineering and design team in developing detailed shop drawings incorporating required project specifications and technical schematics.
• Implementing quality assurance and quality control measures to meet project deliverables and attain the required project specific standards.
• I was managing and maximizing the utilization of project assets and resources such as equipments, materials and personnel ensuring its productive eficiency in the least cost economical manner..
• I establish working task schedule to the construction working force and organize the team members base on their trade skills and discipline..
• Ensuring construction site activities are in compliance with safety health and environmental.
• Prepare and submit regular and up to date records such as daily site activities and logs, progress and incident report, ensure to accurately document it and make it easy accessible to other stakeholders since they might need it and for future references.
• Involve in developing and implementing comprehensive safety program policies and procedures for the benefit of the employee and employer/company.
Company industry:
Construction & Building

Quantity Surveyor/Estimator/Cost Control Engineer

June 2010 - November 2012

Saudi Amana Contracting Company

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

June 2010 - November 2012

Key Achievements:
• Reaching our commercial teams goal to acquire additional variation claims through the efort of
scrutinizing build up rates from latest supplier quotations.

Responsibilities:
• I create, initiate client invoice as per original contract value and include approved variations to be claim to client.
• I evaluate and compare tender drawings against approved shop drawings and notify the client/consultant any arise variations due to changes initiated/requested by client/consultant.
• Assisting Sr. QS in preparing PROJECT BUDGET COST according to the awarded original BOQ from estimating department.
• I was responsible in evaluating MRF (Material Request Form) from site, insuring that the material is within the budget.
• I evaluate and Prepare payment certificate/recommendation to supplier/subcontractor according to site progress based on approved RFIs, Material submittals, Method Statements and equivalents).
• I prepare and submit detailed cost estimate and calculate cost of materials, labor, equipment and OCM (Overhead, Contingency, Miscellaneous) of the project.
• Measure and perform detailed quantity take of base from approve project drawings and specifications ensuring its accuracy and completeness in accordance with the general guidelines from civil engineering standard method of measurements (CESMM).
• Assist in cost analysis and value engineering, identifying opportunity of cost potential savings by way of researching alternative materials with the same high quality of product to reduce minimize cost without compromising quality.
• I was tasked to revise budget project cost and adjust estimates based on the updated market changes of prices of materials, equipments and consumables etc. due to market price fluctuations and was able to come up accumulated cost savings of 3% of the project cost particularly in equipments and some of the materials.
Company industry:
Construction & Building

Surveyor/Estimator/Asst. Cost Engineer

August 2008 - April 2010

Mushrif National Construction – L.L.C.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

August 2008 - April 2010

Key Achievements:
• By tracking and thorough monitoring of project actual expenditure our team prevented from over
expense due to over ordering of bituminous materials, resolving by cancellation of related purchase order..

Responsibilities:
• I formulate accurate take of quantities of steel reinforcement, volume of concrete, Formworks and other materials needed in super structural structures based in the approved tender drawings by the consultant.
• I quantify and estimate materials that must be included in the monthly interim Valuation Invoice based in the updated work done on site as per cumulative.
• I was responsible to conduct site inspection to monitor our subcontractor progress work done and make report, notification for whatever variation that has been observed during inspection.
• I evaluate payment application submitted by our target subcontractor and prepare payment recommendation for their payments.
• I assess variation application submitted by our subcontractor.
• Create BOQ based in the approved tender drawing and specifications issued by our architect consultant.
• Prepare monthly cost of manpower and equipment, as well as anticipated monthly cost of the like for the next month.
• I assist and collaborate senior cost engineer in preparing detailed cost estimate and developing forecast cost and target budgets.
• I was tasked to safe keeping of cost related documents such as purchase orders, small value contract and supplier invoices for future cost budgeting preparation and build up rate creation and exercises.
Company industry:
Construction & Building

Estimator

November 2007 - July 2008

Govt Entity- City Engineer’s Ofice

Davao, Philippines

November 2007 - July 2008

Entry Level
Company industry:
Civil Engineering

QA/QC Inspector (ENTRY LEVEL)

June 2003 - October 2007

8990 Housing Development Corp.

Davao, Philippines

June 2003 - October 2007

Entry Level
Company industry:
Construction & Building

Education

University of Mindanao

March 2003

March 2003

Bachelor's degree, Registered Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE),

Philippines

Skills

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Expert
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Expert
CONSTRUCTION
Expert
CONSTRUCTION
Expert
COST ESTIMATION
Expert
COST ESTIMATION
Expert
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Expert
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Expert
PROGRESS MONITORING
Expert
PROGRESS MONITORING
Expert
DRAWING
Expert
DRAWING
Expert
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
Expert
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
COLLABORATION
Expert
COLLABORATION
Expert
QUALITY CONTROL
Expert
QUALITY CONTROL
Expert

Languages

English

Intermediate

Hobbies and interests

Cost Controlling

Provide cost advice alternatives to the top managers for cost cutting without compromising project quality and maintain project timeline resulting to 5% overall cost saving.