Subrayan Arumugam, Senior Quantity Surveyor

Subrayan Arumugam

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Kharafi National

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil
Experience
25 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 9 Months

Senior Quantity Surveyor at Kharafi National
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since June 2010

Senior Site Quantity Surveyor reporting directly to the Contract Administrator and Senior Project Manager, on a daily basis on matters covering the whole scope of the project. Responsibilities during the project comprise typically the following:

 Preparation of Monthly payment applications and submission/subsequent agreement of certificates with the Client.
 Review, preparation and negotiation of Engineer Instructions and Variation Orders.
 Issuing and follow-ups of RFQ with various supplier/subcontractors and Reviewing, Preparing the Comparison Statement from the Suppliers/Subcontractor’s Offers.
 Preparation and negotiation of the Subcontract agreements finalization of the same with approved Subcontractors.
 Monitoring the progress of the Subcontractors works and preparing their monthly Interim payment certificate for all Subcontractors.
 Review, preparation and negotiation of Engineers Instructions and Variation Orders with the Subcontractors.
 Prepare and submit the financial / cost report to the higher management in conjunction with the Contract Administrator and the Project manager

Managing Quantity Surveyor at Mushrif National Construction LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • May 2009 to June 2010

As Managing Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Department, planned day to day job functions & supervised work with specific Key Performance parameters-
 Prepared monthly payment applications using data from SAP updates & submitted/ subsequent agreement of the certificates with the client.
 Prepared early stage budgets for the projects and uploaded budget using SAP.
 Created sales order in SAP & updated progress of the project on weekly basis & created billing document in SAP.
 Reviewed, prepared, & negotiated site work instructions and variation orders.
 Created change requests in SAP based on the approved variations.
 Issued & followed up RFQ & prepared comparison statement from the subcontractor’s offers, finalized, & prepared subcontract agreement and Interim payments for subcontractors.
 Created service purchase orders in SAP for the selected subcontractor.
 Issued & followed up RFQ, prepared comparison statement from subcontractor’s offers, & finalized subcontracts.
 Managed measurement & variations and agreed with the clients & subcontractors.
 Prepared & submitted financial / cost report to higher management in consultation with the Project Manager & Commercial Manager.

Contributions:
 Made significant contribution in accepting variation orders in a timely manner & collecting payments from the clients.
Spearheaded study and implemented procedures for cost control, work break down structures (WBS), variation procedures, project documentation flow chart and maintained a successful track record of satisfactory work and punctual delivery.

Senior Quantity Surveyor at Al Futtaim Group Real Estate
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2007 to March 2009

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Department, managed & assigned daily work with measurable Key Performance Indices-
 Prepared early stage budgets & detailed cost plans for the initiated projects, in coordination with the development, design & planning departments & submitted to the Senior Management for their approval.
 Prepared & evaluated appropriate commercial sections of the tender documentation received from the Project Architect & Contractors
 Attend meetings with Consultant, Contractor to negotiate the Tender price, terms & conditions.
 Audited subcontract documents including tender placing report, specification, contract drawings, as built drawings & subcontract agreement to ensure compliance with main contract & identified variation of the work, as required for cost plus contract.
 Prepared final evaluation based on the audit, organized meeting with contractor, & negotiated the final account.
 Prepared audit report for review by higher management in accordance with the contract conditions.
 Handled man management issues as well as monitored resource utilization.

Contributions:
 Substantially reduced the final claims of contractors while auditing the contractor’s final account.
 Introduced innovative initiatives to overcome constraints and effectively utilized the resources.

Project Quantity Surveyor at M.A.Kharafi and Sons.co
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 1998 to August 2007

As Project Quantity Surveyor/ Assistant Quantity Surveyor,
 Prepared cost loading of project schedule & subsequent agreements on schedules.
 Reviewed, prepared, & negotiated site work Instructions and variation orders.
 Handled monthly payment applications & subsequent agreement of certificates.
 Prepared Interim payments for all subcontractors.
 Managed suppliers & overseen all letter of credit matters & subcontract agreements
 Prepared comparison statement from the subcontractor’s offers & finalized subcontracts
 Attended meeting with subcontractors, consultants/ clients to ensure compliance with contract specifications & standards.
 Managed measurement, variations, & final accounts of subcontractors as agreed by client.
 Prepared & submitted financial / cost reports with directions from the Project Manager.

Contributions:
 Effectively pointed out errors in structural details while doing measurements that resulted in increased efficiency.
 Initiated robust measures to maintain positive cash flow for the project throughout the project duration.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil
  • at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
  • April 1996

Specialties & Skills

Primavera P6
AutoCAD
MS Office Automation
MS Office

Languages

English
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