Chief Quantity Surveyor

**Requisition ID: 267415**
- ** Relocation Authorized: International - Family**:

- ** Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project**:

- ** Work Location: Jubail**

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**Position Summary**

Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logístical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and it's getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Bechtel serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more.

**Work Location: Ras-Al-Khair**

**The work location for this position is in Ras-Al-Khair which is located about 90 KMS north of Jubail Industrial City. You will be required to commute Jubail - Ras-Al-Khair - Jubail daily using the available transportation facility /shuttle bus service. The accommodation will be provided at Jubail Industrial City.**

**Major Responsibilities**:
***The Chief QS role is office based within the Royal Commission Engineering Department, leading the Quantity Surveying team.

**ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES**:

- Assigns work to the QS Team, corroborates results and leads the QS team to ensure adequate and timely review of quantities and pay items for all Engineering design packages and RFP/Bid documents prepared by the Royal Commissions and local AE design consultants for a wide variety of Infrastructure Projects.
- Lead the QS team to ensure adequate and timely review of preliminary estimates and highlighting of any discrepancies against project budgets.
- Coordination across Engineering Core Group disciplines for identification of scope errors, omissions and missing Pay Items.
- Reduction of bidder queries, design errors and omissions, missing Pay Items.
- Development and management of standardized Royal Commission Standard Pay Items including method of measurement, as well as training and coaching for Design Consultants.
- Coordinates review of bidder documents and change orders for contractual scope changes.
- Ensure proper monitoring, management and close-out of design review comments during the design review process.
- Development and maintenance of historical database of design pay items, quantities and cost estimates for cross reference against current design packages.
- Supervises the QS team and provides team members with regular performance feedback, guidance and support and develops team performance metrics.
- Provides guidance and training and transfers knowledge to Saudi National Engineers/Quantity Surveyors.
- The supervision of team reviewing consultant’s electrical design packages and main construction contractor’s design and drawing packages for infrastructure projects.
- Continuous effort to improve design quality by implementing QC and QA program.
- Monitoring Consultant’s design quality and provide technical guidance.
- Organize and participate in Interdisciplinary coordination meetings.
- Participate in Management Planning meetings.
- Ensure the overall quality of the projects including coordination with other disciplines and interface projects.
- Assists Field Engineers in solving technical problems to facilitate appropriate solutions.