Managing Quantity Surveyor

Role Overview

Managing Quantity Surveyor at Hill International. The role oversees cost management, payment reviews, variations, claims and final accounts across multiple infrastructure packages.

Company Overview

Hill International, with more than 4,400 professionals in over 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, project management oversight, advisory, facilities management, and other consulting services to clients in a variety of market sectors. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as one of the largest program management firms in the world. Hill is exclusively a program, project, and construction management provider, dedicated to protecting client interests free of any potential conflicts. The company is committed to exceeding expectations throughout the entire construction project lifecycle and adapts to the needs of each assignment to develop tailored approaches and solutions. Hill International is a GISI Consulting Group company, part of the Global Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. (GISI) family of companies.

Role Purpose

The Managing Quantity Surveyor leads cost management and commercial oversight across multiple infrastructure packages, ensuring accurate financial tracking, robust claims assessment, and successful contract closeout while maintaining alignment with client requirements and project authority limits.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Manage the quantity surveying team, ensuring accurate assessments, consistent standards and timely deliverables.

Budget & Cost Management

• Oversee budgets, cost plans, cash-flow forecasts and anticipated final costs, identifying potential overruns and recommending corrective action.
• Monitor the cost implications of design changes, ground conditions, construction sequencing and interfaces between packages.
• Prepare cost estimates for various project elements.

Procurement & Tender Review

• Review consultants' cost estimates, bills of quantities and tender documents for completeness and alignment with the project scope.
• Support commercial tender evaluations, bidder clarifications and procurement recommendations.

Payment & Assessment Review

• Review contractor and consultant payment applications and associated assessments, providing substantiated recommendations within the PMC's authority.
• Maintain robust knowledge of the applicable methods of measurement.

Variations & Claims

• Assess variations, including scope, quantities, rates, contractual basis and budget implications.
• Review the commercial aspects of claims in coordination with the contracts, planning and delivery teams.
• Have strong contractual knowledge and extensive experience in claims procedures.
• Assess contractual entitlement and prepare claims and Early Warning Trackers.

Commercial Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain consolidated payment, variation, claim and commercial risk registers with clear supporting records.
• Prepare commercial reports highlighting budget performance, forecast final costs, outstanding liabilities and required Client decisions.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinate with Modon, consultants and contractors to resolve commercial issues, scope gaps and potential duplicate payments.
• Support commercial negotiations, final-account reconciliation and contract closeout.

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure commercial activities comply with project contracts, Client approval procedures and the PMC's delegated authority.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in quantity surveying, Commercial Management, Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartered membership of RICS or an equivalent recognized professional qualification, preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of FIDIC-based contracts and bespoke consultancy agreements.
• Thorough knowledge of measurement methods, bills of quantities, rate build-ups, cost estimating and infrastructure cost benchmarking.
• Sound understanding of contractual entitlement, valuation principles, change control and the assessment of supporting evidence for claims.
• Knowledge of budget management, cash-flow forecasting, contingency management and anticipated final-cost reporting.
• Understanding of the commercial implications of design changes, package interfaces, ground conditions and construction sequencing.
• Clear understanding of PMC responsibilities, delegated authority and Client approval requirements.

Additional Information

• Hill International is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled.
• This job description is intended to provide an indication of the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities and other essential functions to be carried out as part of fulfilling the role. Various other duties as required.