Managing Quantity Surveyor

Associate Director - MEP Cost Management

Faithful+Gould are seeking to expand the MEP cost management team based for the UAE from both a team size and client development perspective. Based from Dubai or Abu Dhabi, you will lead the MEP cost management team for MEP deliverables for all UAE cost management projects.

Additionally, you shall support our ME and Africa teams, as senior MEP representative in the business.

Responsibilities

• Preparation and delivery of MEP estimates, cost plans, Bills of Quantities, pre-tender estimates and post contract QS administration
• Contract interpretation and advice/action
• Client and stakeholder management
• Executive level reporting
• Internal programme management
• Managing and assisting technical teams to prepare task orders/work packages
• Project/Client specific Change Management
• Reporting on project performance
• Leveraging project commercial performance – revenues and costs
• Ensure time charge hours properly captured and invoiced on time.
• Preparation of MEP sector business plans.
• Develop strategic client relationships and key accounts.
• Profit and loss responsibility.

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

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