Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the MEP Quantity Surveying (QS) team, overseeing commercial activities across multiple MEP projects.
- Manage the complete QS lifecycle, including pre-contract, post-contract, and final account activities.
- Prepare, review, and submit monthly Interim Payment Applications (IPCs), progress billings, and supporting documentation to main contractors and consultants.
- Monitor project cash flow, monthly billing targets, payment certifications, outstanding receivables, and retention releases.
- Identify, prepare, submit, negotiate, and follow up on MEP Variation Orders (VOs), Change Orders, and contractual claims.
- Review contractual drawings, specifications, BOQs, IFC/IFT revisions, and site instructions to identify scope changes and additional works.
- Prepare detailed cost assessments for variations, including material procurement costs, labour costs, installation rates, preliminaries, and overheads and profit (OHP).
- Evaluate subcontractor and supplier quotations, purchase orders, and material cost variations to ensure commercial accuracy and cost control.
- Review and challenge main contractor and consultant assessments, deductions, back charges, and rejected variation claims to protect the company's contractual entitlements.
- Manage Extension of Time (EOT) cost submissions, disruption claims, prolongation costs, and other contractual claims in accordance with contract conditions and applicable FIDIC provisions.
- Monitor project budgets, cost forecasts, commitments, variations, and commercial risks to support management decision-making.
- Coordinate with project managers, site engineers, procurement, planning, finance, and technical teams to ensure timely submission of commercial documents and achievement of billing targets.
- Prepare monthly commercial reports, variation trackers, billing forecasts, cost-to-complete (CTC) reports, and management dashboards.
- Conduct commercial meetings and negotiations with main contractors, consultants, and clients to resolve outstanding assessments, variations, and payment issues.
- Manage final account preparation, reconciliation, negotiation, and closure, including outstanding variations, claims, and contractual deductions.
- Ensure compliance with contract requirements, project procedures, commercial policies, and document control standards.
- Mentor and supervise QS team members, allocate workloads, review submissions, monitor deliverables, and ensure timely completion of commercial activities.
- Report key commercial matters, payment risks, outstanding variations, and project financial performance to senior management.
