Lead Quantity Surveyor

2 weeks ago


Riyadh, Ar Riyāḑ, Saudi Arabia Rider Levett Bucknall Full time

Role Overview:

Rider Levett Bucknall is currently seeking a Lead Quantity Surveyor to join our client focused team in Riyadh.

You will be responsible for leading projects and be accountable for the effective delivery of cost and commercial management services.

With a focus on pre-contract cost management services.

Based in our client office in Riyadh, you will be supporting our client in the delivery of various projects.

This role will therefore suit a well-rounded strategic and dynamic individual with experience of providing Cost Management services on complex programmes of work.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish the structure and format of a cost plan / estimate.
  • Produce cost plans / estimates throughout the different design stages in accordance with NRM1 format for the concept design, NRM2 for the detailed design and CESMM for Infrastructure works.
  • Evaluate design options and alternatives.
  • Benchmarking at the various design stages.
  • Monitor the cost implication of design stages and track against the budget.
  • Reconcile the variance at each design stage and report on reasons for variance.
  • Manage value engineering exercises and advise on cost implications.
  • Attend and participate in value engineering workshops.
  • Provide advice into procurement strategies.
  • Prepare and agree the structure of tender documents.
  • Preparation of Pre-Tender Estimates.
  • Managing a competitive tender process including managing tender queries.
  • Managing and contributing to structured and documented tender evaluations.
  • Preparation of contract documents and advice on contract conditions.
  • A track record of working with and managing teams and projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines.

Person Specification:

  • Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying.
  • A chartered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
  • MRICS.
  • Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English and a confident and clear approach to providing advice to others in meetings.
  • Expected minimum of 15 years' experience post degree qualification.
  • IT proficient; able to analyse and present data to clients utilising cost management software like Cost X (Ross 5D in house software training will be provided).
  • Excellent working knowledge of NRM1, and NRM
  • A team player, outgoing, flexible, enthusiastic, and ambitious.

Company Overview:


With 100 KSA staff and 4,500 worldwide, Rider Levett Bucknall has a truly global reach, and with such scope can offer a local presence to its clients almost without exception.

We are committed to our core services and pride ourselves on our dedication to customer care and leading-edge service provision.


We are an award winning, leading independent firm providing our clients with some of the most comprehensive and forward-thinking advice available.


We offer a range of complementary quantity surveying, project management, building surveying and advisory services from conception, through design and construction and operational performance of facilities to their eventual disposal or reuse.


Our clients have rapid access to the latest industry intelligence and innovations, which serve to enhance value and mitigate risk.

We provide expert management of the relationship between value, time and cost from inception to completion.

We do this through our global and local team of experts, who possess a passion for both core services and innovation.

We are committed to developing new services and techniques aimed at enhancing our clients' businesses in the long term.
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