Quantity Surveyor Grade I, Office of Public Works

publicjobs; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Office of Public Works (OPW) is seeking a Chartered Quantity Surveyor to join its Quantity Surveying team in Dublin. You will provide full QS services on modern and conservation building projects, typically up to €25 million in capital value, and supervise a small team of QS staff.

Key duties include cost planning, preparation of measured estimates, Bills of Quantities, tender documents, and carbon measurement, with a focus on delivering value-for-money and robust procurement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Providing full quantity surveying services from project inception to defects liability per the CWMF, ARM5 and ICMS3.
• Developing cost plans, measured estimates, options appraisals and feasibility studies.
• Preparing Bills of Quantities and tender documents in accordance with ARM5 and ICMS3.
• Managing budgets, milestone reports and cost benchmarks for projects.
• Mentoring a small team of Quantity Surveyors and trainees.

Job description

Closing Date: 3pm, Thursday, 12th November 2026

About the Employer:

The Office of Public Works (OPW) is a key service provider to the Government and is responsible for managing a significant proportion of the approximately 1,800 State owned and leased properties. It also supports and contributes to the government’s National Development Plan 2021 – 2030 by delivering projects including new offices, public buildings and infrastructure.

OPW’s in-house multi-disciplinary technical & project teams collaborate with stakeholders to design, procure and refurbish iconic cultural institutions, construct new energy-efficient offices and garda stations and develop a meaningful programme of deep-retrofit schemes to public buildings. In addition, an extensive programme of flood-defence schemes is managed by other technical teams.

The Quantity Surveying section comprises of in-house Chartered Quantity Surveyors who provide scheme-specific (commercial, technical, and contractual) advice to OPW’s multi-disciplinary teams’ who are planning, designing, procuring and managing a diverse programme of construction projects of every scale in conservation and modern buildings.

They collaborate with colleagues on assigned projects to enhance whole-life value-for-money, whilst managing identified risks, through development of robust options-appraisals, cost plans and feasibility studies, and appropriate procurement/commercial-management of works on site. In completing this work, Agreed Rules of Measurement (ARM) 5, ICMS3, Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) protocols and public works contracts are referred to throughout.

The services provided by the section comply with CWMF and Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) best-practice, and are increasingly delivered on digital platforms, including Cubit, Autodesk, and Tableau to measure, model and optimise the cost and carbon profiles of schemes, and secure energy-cost savings throughout the schemes’ operational lifespans.

As a result of its expanding workload, OPW are now seeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced Chartered Quantity Surveyors, committed to providing robust and timely quantity surveying services to OPW delivery teams on a range of modern and conservation building projects.

Further details about OPW and its work may be found on OPW’s website.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Head of Section, Quantity Surveyors Grade I will provide full quantity surveying services on a portfolio of new-build, refurbishment and conservation projects, generally up to €25 million in capital value. The successful candidate(s) will supervise a small team consisting of Quantity Surveyors Grade II, Grade III and when required, trainees.

In addition, they will also advise OPW’s multi-disciplinary teams on larger projects and will take the lead on providing cost-planning, carbon measurement, feasibility studies and options appraisals services on a portfolio of projects.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities of the Role

Specific duties will vary over time in response to OPW’s prioritised programme of planned and live capital projects, however it will include but are not limited to the following:

• Providing full quantity surveying services (CWMF Stages 1 – 5, usually employer designed) from project inception to defects liability, per the CWMF, ARM5 and ICMS3;
• Developing order of magnitude costings, measured estimates, options appraisals, feasibility studies and business cases in compliance with CWMF and Infrastructure Guidelines;
• Developing sustained and varied quantity surveying deliverables in accordance with CWMF protocols, spanning CWMF Stages 1 – 5, including but not limited to pricing documents, bills of quantities and project preliminaries;
• Participating in design and value engineering exercises;
• Establishing and updating project cost benchmarks at regular intervals during projects;
• Advising OPW teams on CWMF procurement, and procuring CWMF works, services and frameworks;
• Checking, reviewing and updating project budgets regularly and preparing milestone reports as design develops;
• Preparing measured estimates, Bills of Quantities (BoQ) and tender documents in accordance with ARM 5 and ICMS3;
• Performing pre-and post-contract administration of commercial, conservation and industrial schemes from project inception to completion, managing change and reporting on project scope, cost programme and risk/opportunity management;
• Planning, managing and reporting on assigned works-projects at a Programme-level;
• Updating databases of live construction projects and procurements;
• Updating cost and carbon benchmarks and databases for live projects;
• Engaging constructively, supportively and flexibly with managers and colleagues to prioritise and meet the operational needs of the team;
• Participating in research and implementation of digital initiatives, e.g. Tableau dashboard reporting, Common Data Environments and implementing pilot projects for 5D BIM;
• Managing and mentoring a small team;
• Keeping abreast of developments and research relating to quantity surveying;
• Maintaining the highest professional quantity surveying and ethical standards, and compliance with OPW policy and procedures.

We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act.