Cost Coordinator & Quantity Surveyor

Al Shirawi; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cost management firm in Dubai is seeking a Vision Wood Cost Coordinator to oversee material quantities and labor hours ensuring adherence to budget. Key responsibilities include quantifying materials against approved drawings, verifying cutting lists, tracking issued materials, and analyzing consumption rates against budgets. The successful candidate will suggest process improvements and ensure effective communication with production teams. Knowledge of Oracle systems is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Monitor material and labor costs to ensure budget compliance.
• Quantify materials based on approved drawings.
• Re-verify quantities before production.
• Acknowledge manual requisitions before issuing materials.
• Maintain a tracker for materials issued to production.
• Analyze actual consumption against the budget using reports.
• Track availability of off cuts.
• Update reports for weekly reviews.
• Inform departments of necessary corrective actions.
• Suggest process improvements based on observations.

Job description

Vision Wood Cost Coordinator Job responsibilities:

• To ensure that the actual material quantity and labour hours are within the budget issued by CCM in each project, and to work for the maximum cost savings by monitoring the areas like, material consumption, manhours consumption, consumables usage, propose cost effective joinery detailing to the engineering etc.
• Quantification of materials against the approved/submitted shop drawings or tender drawings in line with the approved material for procurement. (Responsibility of deciding from which drawings the quantities are to be taken is the responsibility of the PM).
• The material quantity mentioned in the Cut list to be re‑verified prior to issuing it to the production floor. If the quantity / material mentioned in the cutting list differs from the initial quantification, the same need to be clarified and required corrections to be made in consultation with the production team.
• SMR requests raised manually by the supervisor & approved by Production Manager needs to be acknowledged / confirmed prior to raising through oracle. Store will issue the material only if the manual requisition (paper) acknowledged by the cost coordinator. The qty of each item issued against the cultivist to be recorded by the Cost Coordinator in his register.
• Separate tracker to be maintained to track the material requested / issued to production against the estimated quantity. In case of any over run, justification to be requested and required corrective action to be taken.
• Get the Material consumption details from Oracle and Man hours report from in house portal and analyse the project wise actual consumption against the Budget.
• Availability of Off cuts and its usage to be tracked.
• Update the report to ED and CCM during the weekly review meeting.
• Based on the analysis / comments if any from the management, inform the respective department to take required corrective action.
• Process improvement suggestions from time to time based on the overall observation of the production process.