Roles & Responsibilities

The duties of a Contracts Engineer or Quantity Surveyor may include:

- Discussing, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating the terms of business contracts

- Coordinates, reviews, and tracks contract requirements, terms and conditions and special provisions such as construction plans, matrix of responsibility, milestones, BOQ, LDs, insurances, bonds, payment terms…

- Liaising with project managers, clients, contractors, and subcontractors

- Collecting, preparing, reviewing, interpreting, and analysing operational reports and contractor performance and compliance. Identifies trends affecting service to recommend solutions

- Preparing reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment, and other documents

- Issuing contract amendments and change orders, monitors contract expiration dates and verifies bonding and insurance to meet specific project requirements

- Preparing claims and variation related to any unexpected costs, delay on production plans, substantiation of expenses vs estimating budgets and timescales

- In coordination with the technical department, documenting any changes in design and updating budgets

- Advising managers and clients on improvements and new strategies

- Working with third parties to ensure that everyone understands their roles and responsibilities

- Making sure construction projects meet agreed technical standards

- Supporting the project managers for notification (starting of the project, delay, milestone…)

- Liaising with technical and financial staff, sub-contractors, legal teams and the client’s own representatives

- Attending site meetings to monitor progress

- Traveling from the office to various sites as required

Desired Candidate Profile

Preferred Arabic Speaker as he/she will liaise with other GCC clients