Senior Quantity Surveyor / Estimation Head
Zen Studio FZ LLC
Total years of experience :13 years, 6 Months
• Involving on pre contract stage activities such as identifying project risks, advising on pricing new tenders, attending tender adjudication meetings & attending site visits along with the estimation team.
• Managing and monitoring of two assistant quantity surveyors and procurement officer towards adhering to all the required commercial guidelines.
• Managing the key commercial documents such as the Procurement Schedule, Cashflow Forecast and Margin Improvement Strategy.
• Prepare overall budgets for awarded projects.
• Managing the procurement of trade contractors.
• Preparation of variations and claims to Client/Main contractor.
• Performing value engineering and cost controlling.
• Prepare monthly cash flows, cost reports, and subcontractor payment certification.
• Review Subcontractors variations and claims.
• Attending weekly progress meetings along with the project managers and provide commercial updates.
• Attending pre-bid meetings and site visits.
• Preparation of preliminary estimates.
• Liaise with QSs on quantity verification for the client provided BOQs as per the standard method of measurement.
• Performing Pre and Post contracts cost control.
• Valuing variations and claims.
• Reviewing on claims and variations and make the final recommendation to the management.
• Verifying subcontractor’s insurances, bonds and guarantees.
• Advising on the selection of procurement and tender strategies.
• Participate in reviews of project risks and opportunities to minimize cost through Value Engineering.
• Managing the key commercial documents such as the Procurement Schedule, Cashflow Forecast and Margin Improvement Strategy.
• Managing the procurement of the project in line with the procurement schedule and budget.
• Send Notifications to consultants prior submitting Variations or claims.
• Preparation of variations and cost claims with contemporary records.
• Certifying sub-contractor’s monthly invoices.
• Certifying sub-contractor’s variations.
• Advising on Procurement strategy.
• Performing value engineering and cost control.
• Attend Commercial meetings with Clients and Contractors.
• Administering the subcontract including issue of contractual notices.
• Attending pre-bid meetings and site visits.
• Raise RFIs regarding tender discrepancies and additional information.
• Pricing the tender as per the tender documents.
• Review tender documents and prepare tender qualifications and exclusion for the tender submission.
• Undertaking cost analysis to prepare project overall budget.
• Preparation on monthly payment applications.
• Preparation of variations and claims for Clients/Subcontractors.
• Reviewing of subcontractor’s variations and claims.
• Performing value engineering and cost control.
• Certifying subcontract monthly invoices.
• Preparation of preliminary cost plans.
• Prepare various cost plans during the preliminary, elemental and schematic design stages to capture the design developments.
• Preparation of Bills of Quantities (BOQ).
• Preparing tender documents.
• Tender evaluations.
• Attending and conducting post tender clarification meetings.
• Reviewing tender proposals and recommending a preferred bidder.
• Assisting on drafting contracts.
• Advising on selecting suitable procurement and tender strategies.
• Evaluation of variations and claims.
• Review Interim/Final Valuations & Preparation of Payment certificates.
• Requesting quotations from suppliers.
• Taking site measurements for various purposes.
• Compute material requirements and procurement of materials.
• Preparation of BOQ, schedules of rates & cost breakdowns.
• Checking site measurements and certifying the sub-contractors work done.
• Preparing sub-contractor’s monthly payment certificates.
• Assist in certifying sub-contractor’s variations.