We're Hiring: Senior Commercial Engineer
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About UsWe are a globally focused organization delivering complex engineering, construction, infrastructure, industrial, and development projects across diverse markets. Our teams collaborate across Engineering, Commercial, Contracts, Procurement, Project Management, Finance, Construction, Operations, and specialist partners to deliver projects with strong technical performance, commercial discipline, and sustainable business outcomes.
Our project environment combines engineering expertise with commercial analysis, contract management, cost control, risk management, and strategic decision-making to protect project value and ensure that contractual and financial objectives are achieved throughout the project lifecycle.
The RoleWe are seeking an experienced Senior Commercial Engineer to provide technical-commercial leadership across engineering and construction projects, supporting cost management, contract administration, procurement, tendering, change management, commercial risk, and project financial performance.
The ideal candidate will combine engineering knowledge with strong commercial and contractual expertise to evaluate project requirements, assess costs and risks, manage variations and claims, review contractor and supplier proposals, and provide practical recommendations to project leadership. This role will work closely with Engineering, Project Management, Procurement, Finance, Contracts, Construction, and external stakeholders to ensure commercial decisions are technically sound and aligned with project objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- * Provide senior technical-commercial advice throughout the project lifecycle.
- Review project scope, engineering requirements, specifications, drawings, schedules, contracts, and commercial conditions.
- Translate technical requirements into commercial implications, cost considerations, and contractual obligations.
- Support development of commercial strategies aligned with project objectives and business requirements.
- Participate in project feasibility studies, cost assessments, procurement strategies, and commercial planning.
- Develop and maintain project commercial plans covering costs, contracts, procurement, variations, risks, claims, and reporting requirements.
- Review project budgets, cost plans, estimates, and financial forecasts from a technical-commercial perspective.
- Analyze project cost drivers and identify opportunities for cost optimization and value improvement.
- Review engineering designs and proposed technical solutions for commercial impact, constructability, lifecycle cost, and contractual compliance.
- Work with Engineering teams to evaluate alternative technical solutions and assess their cost and commercial implications.
- Support value-engineering initiatives by evaluating alternative materials, systems, specifications, construction methods, and delivery approaches.
- Prepare commercial comparisons and recommendations for alternative technical solutions.
- Review bills of quantities, schedules of rates, cost breakdowns, and pricing structures.
- Validate quantities, rates, assumptions, exclusions, allowances, and commercial qualifications.
- Support development and review of tender documents, requests for proposals, pricing schedules, and commercial requirements.
- Participate in tender evaluations and technical-commercial assessments of contractor and supplier proposals.
- Evaluate supplier and contractor quotations for scope compliance, pricing, technical requirements, commercial terms, and risk exposure.
- Normalize competing bids and identify differences in assumptions, exclusions, quantities, rates, and contractual conditions.
- Prepare tender evaluation reports and commercial recommendations for management approval.
- Support commercial negotiations with contractors, suppliers, consultants, and specialist service providers.
- Develop negotiation strategies based on technical requirements, market conditions, cost analysis, and contractual positions.
- Review contract terms, specifications, pricing schedules, payment mechanisms, performance obligations, warranties, and liability provisions.
- Identify commercial risks, ambiguities, inconsistencies, and unfavorable contractual provisions.
- Support contract drafting, review, negotiation, award, and administration activities.
- Monitor contractor and supplier compliance with contractual obligations.
- Review payment applications, progress claims, invoices, and supporting documentation.
- Validate completed quantities, milestone achievements, deliverables, and contractual entitlement before payment approval.
- Coordinate with Quantity Surveying, Cost Control, Finance, and Project Management teams on payment certification and commercial reporting.
- Manage the commercial aspects of variations, change orders, additional works, omissions, and scope changes.
- Assess the technical and commercial impact of proposed changes.
- Prepare and review variation quotations, cost assessments, supporting calculations, and commercial recommendations.
- Verify contractor and supplier pricing for changes against contract rates, market conditions, and applicable commercial principles.
- Maintain variation registers and monitor the status, value, approval, and implementation of changes.
- Identify potential claims and commercial disputes at an early stage.
- Support preparation, evaluation, negotiation, and resolution of contractual claims.
- Analyze entitlement, causation, valuation, and contractual provisions associated with claims.
- Review extension-of-time submissions and assess their commercial implications in coordination with planning and project controls teams.
- Support delay and disruption assessments where commercial impact is involved.
- Coordinate with project schedulers and planners to evaluate the cost implications of delays, acceleration, disruption, and changes in sequencing.
- Maintain commercial risk registers and monitor financial exposure throughout project delivery.
- Quantify potential commercial risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Monitor cost commitments, approved changes, forecast final costs, and commercial exposure.
- Analyze actual costs against budgets, contract values, forecasts, and approved variations.
- Coordinate with Finance and Project Controls to ensure commercial data is accurately reflected in project financial reporting.
- Support monthly commercial reporting, forecasting, and management reviews.
- Prepare commercial dashboards covering contract values, commitments, variations, claims, payments, risks, and forecast outcomes.
- Provide senior management with clear analysis of project commercial performance and emerging issues.
- Review procurement strategies and identify opportunities to improve cost, supplier performance, contractual protection, and delivery outcomes.
- Support supplier and contractor prequalification, commercial due diligence, and performance assessments.
Key Performance Indicators
- * Commercial plan completion
- Contract administration timeliness
- Contract compliance
- Project commercial performance
- Budget adherence
- Forecast final-cost accuracy
- Cost variance
- Commercial risk identification
- Commercial risk mitigation
- Contract value management
- Procurement savings
- Tender evaluation accuracy
- Tender evaluation turnaround time
- Supplier and contractor quotation validation
- Payment application review accuracy
- Payment certification timeliness
- Variation assessment accuracy
- Variation approval cycle time
- Variation value control
- Change-order management
- Claims identification
- Claims resolution rate
- Claims settlement value
- Extension-of-time assessment timeliness
- Commercial dispute resolution
- Contractor commercial performance
- Supplier commercial performance
- Contractual compliance rate
- Cost optimization contribution
- Value-engineering savings
- Negotiated savings
- Cost avoidance
- Commercial forecast accuracy
- Commercial reporting timeliness
- Commercial reporting accuracy
- Risk-register accuracy
- Commercial issue resolution time
- Contract documentation completeness
- Audit compliance
- Commercial governance compliance
- Procurement cycle efficiency
- Contract renewal and closeout performance
- Lessons-learned implementation
- Junior team development
Ideal CandidateThe successful candidate should have strong experience in commercial engineering, project commercial management, contracts, quantity surveying, cost management, procurement, or engineering project controls, preferably within construction, engineering, infrastructure, energy, industrial, real estate, or large-scale development environments.
The candidate should demonstrate:
- Proven experience managing technical-commercial activities across complex engineering or construction projects.
- Strong understanding of engineering principles and commercial project requirements.
- Experience reviewing contracts, specifications, drawings, bills of quantities, schedules of rates, and pricing documents.
- Strong understanding of contract administration and commercial risk management.
- Experience managing variations, change orders, claims, and commercial negotiations.
- Strong ability to evaluate technical proposals from a commercial perspective.
- Experience preparing and reviewing cost estimates, budgets, forecasts, and commercial evaluations.
- Strong understanding of procurement processes, tendering, bid evaluation, and supplier negotiations.
