Senior MEP Quantity Surveyor

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.  

At AECOM we are currently recruiting for a Senior MEP Quantity Surveyor to join our Dublin office.

The role is based at site three days per week with two days working from home.

Here’s what you’ll do: 

The role is responsible for cost control on behalf of the Contracting Entity, including the leadership and management of a team of Intermediate MEP Quantity Surveyors. It ensures the effective management and control of project expenditure, verifies that all payments comply with contractual reimbursement principles (including schedules of rates, bills of quantities, and materials on- and off-site payments), and monitors anticipated final project costs to ensure financial certainty.

Your day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities:

Programme Cost Management Activities 

• Support the development and continual improvement of the Contracting Entity’s cost control processes, procedures, and policies, ensuring alignment with industry best practice and applicable contractual terms and conditions.

• Monitor and assure compliance with the Contracting Entity’s cost control standards, escalating and reporting any instances of non-conformance to the Programme Director and Project Manager as appropriate.

• Develop and maintain the overall MEP cost management strategy for the programme.

• Review and provide input into proposed contractor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) relating to cost control, expenditure, and budget management.

• Oversee the management of variations, including monthly cashflow forecasting, amendments and variances, retention, and the application of liquidated damages as required.

• Oversee the provision of advice to the Risk team on the financial implications of identified and potential risks.

• Monitor anticipated final programme costs, reviewing and approving forecasts prepared by the Cost Management team.

• Provide a clear route for escalation on cost control matters, as required.

• Support the Contracting Entity in responding to contractor claims, as necessary.

• Ensure the Contracting Entity achieves optimum value for money in the procurement and delivery of the programme.

• Develop, implement, and maintain the processes, systems, and administrative procedures required to support the timely, accurate, and consistent dissemination of cost reports across the Contracting Entity.

• Foster effective relationships with the supply chain and the wider industry, including contractors, consultants, suppliers, and relevant professional bodies.

• Provide specialist advice and expertise in relation to claims and disputes arising under construction and consultancy contracts.

• Review schedules of rates and/or bills of quantities prepared by cost consultants to support the development of pre-tender estimates and budgets, providing commentary and recommendations as required.

• Review and approve monthly post-contract valuations, including cost reports, variation orders, and final accounts for individual work packages.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Here’s what we’re looking for: 

As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our primary infrastructure markets along with having the following qualifications and experience.

• Degree Qualified – BSc or MSc – in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management.
• Professionally Qualified – On the Statutory Register of Quantity Surveyors in Ireland and preferably Chartered Quantity Surveying Status with the RICS or SCSI.
• Excellent IT Skills and the ability to utilize digi