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Role Overview
Decima International seeks a Quantity Surveyor to support cost management, quantity measurement, commercial administration, and change control activities for a large-scale data center project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is a full-time, salary-based position. Saudi National candidates only.
Company Overview
Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. The company's mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors it engages in. Decima approaches each client engagement as a partnership, creates an environment that attracts talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulates growth to maintain excellence in service standards.
Role Purpose
You will play a key role in supporting financial discipline across the project by ensuring quantities, costs, variations, progress claims, and commercial records are accurately reviewed, tracked, and reported in alignment with project requirements. You will support project teams with measurement, valuation, cost tracking, and commercial documentation throughout the full project lifecycle on a large-scale data center project.
Key Responsibilities
Quantity Measurement & Valuation
- Prepare, review, and validate quantity take-offs, bills of quantities, measurements, and cost-related documentation.
- Review drawings, specifications, BOQs, scope documents, and contract documents to support accurate measurement and valuation.
- Conduct site visits and progress inspections to verify installed quantities and support payment and variation assessments.
- Support the evaluation of change orders, variations, claims, and commercial impacts, including quantity verification and cost substantiation.
Cost Management & Reporting
- Support quantity surveying and commercial management activities across the project, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with contract requirements.
- Assist in preparing cost reports, budget updates, payment trackers, variation logs, and commercial dashboards for project leadership and client review.
- Support the preparation of estimates, forecasts, cost-to-complete updates, and financial projections based on project progress and approved changes.
Payment Administration & Claims
- Review contractor payment applications, progress claims, invoices, and supporting documents to verify accuracy against completed works, contract terms, and approved quantities.
- Maintain accurate records of measurements, payment applications, change orders, claims, correspondence, and commercial documentation.
Stakeholder Coordination
- Coordinate with cost control, planning, procurement, contract, engineering, and construction teams to validate quantities, progress, and cost impacts.
- Participate in commercial meetings, progress reviews, cost workshops, and contractor coordination sessions.
Risk & Issue Management
- Assist in identifying commercial risks, cost discrepancies, scope gaps, and potential variations, escalating issues to project leadership when required.
Governance & Compliance
- Support contract administration activities by reviewing commercial terms, deliverables, payment milestones, and supporting documentation.
- Ensure quantity surveying activities align with internal policies, client standards, contract requirements, and industry best practices.
Qualifications & Experience
- 7+ years of quantity surveying, cost management, commercial management, or construction cost control experience within large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects.
- Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Commercial Management, or a related technical field.
- Prior experience working on data center, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale building projects.
- Strong knowledge of quantity take-offs, BOQs, measurement rules, payment applications, variations, claims support, and cost reporting.
- Experience reviewing contractor progress claims, invoices, change orders, quantity records, and commercial documentation.
- Strong ability to read and interpret drawings, specifications, scope documents, BOQs, and contract documents.
- Understanding of construction contracts, commercial terms, valuation methods, and project cost control principles.
- Ability to verify completed works on-site and assess progress against approved quantities and contract requirements.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify cost discrepancies, measurement issues, commercial risks, and scope gaps.
- Excellent communication and coordination skills with the ability to work effectively with contractors, consultants, client representatives, and multidisciplinary project teams.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple commercial and cost-related priorities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Additional Information
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional membership or certification such as MRICS, RICS, AIQS, AACE, or an equivalent quantity surveying/cost management credential.
- Experience working on hyperscale data centers or other large-scale, mission-critical facilities.
- Experience working in a PMC, owner's representative, or client-side project management environment.
- Previous experience working in KSA or the wider GCC region.
- Familiarity with FIDIC contracts, construction claims, change management, and commercial reporting processes.
- Experience using cost management, document control, or project management platforms such as Procore, Aconex, Oracle Primavera Cloud, SAP, or similar systems.
- Knowledge of MEP, CSA, and infrastructure quantity measurement within complex construction projects.
Position Status
This position is part of Decima International's anticipated expansion in KSA. While the company is excited about the opportunities this role will offer, the position is not currently active and is associated with the planned launch of operations in the region. By applying, you acknowledge that this is a future opportunity and not an offer of immediate employment.
Location
On-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.