Lead - AGM/DGM (Costing)

Emaar India; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Emaar India seeks an experienced Civil Engineer for Project Costing, Estimation, Budgeting, and Cost Control across residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and infrastructure projects. You will prepare estimates, budgets, and cost reports, and guide tendering with commercial risk assessment.

The role requires expertise in rate analysis, BOQ preparation, value engineering, and monitoring cost variance against approved budgets, ensuring adherence to schedules and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering is required.
• Certification in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, or Project Management is a plus.
• Proficiency in advanced MS Excel, AutoCAD, ERP/SAP and cost-management or quantity take-off software desirable.

Responsibilities

• Prepare preliminary and detailed cost estimates for residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and infrastructure projects.
• Develop comprehensive project budgets based on drawings, specifications, area statements, project timelines, and scope of work.
• Prepare cost estimates at various design stages including concept, schematic, design development, tender, and Good for Construction.
• Review project budgets periodically and update them based on design development, scope changes, market conditions, and management decisions.
• Review Bills of Quantities, cost estimates, and pre-tender costs for work packages and provide cost benchmarks for bids.
• Monitor approved budgets, track cost variances, and identify cost overruns with corrective actions.

Skills

Advanced MS Excel

AutoCAD

ERP/SAP

Cost-management software

Quantity take-off software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Certification in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management / Project Management

Tools

MS Excel

AutoCAD

ERP/SAP

Job description

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Project Cost Estimation and Budgeting

• Prepare preliminary conceptual, and detailed cost estimates for residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and infrastructure projects.
• Develop comprehensive project budgets based on approved drawings, specifications, area statements, project timelines, and defined scope of work.
• Prepare cost estimates at various design stages, including concept, schematic, design development, tender, and Good for Construction stages.
• Review project budgets periodically and update them based on design development, scope changes, market conditions, and management decisions.

2. Quantity Take-Off and Rate Analysis

• Review architectural, structural, MEP, landscape, faade, interior, and infrastructure drawings to prepare and validate quantity take-offs.
• Prepare detailed rate analyses considering material consumption, labour productivity, plant and machinery, wastage, logistics, overheads, taxes, and contractor margins.
• Validate quantities and rates received from project teams, consultants, contractors, and procurement teams.

3. BOQ and Tender Costing

• Prepare and review Bills of Quantities, cost estimates, scope documents, and pre-tender estimates for various work packages.
• Ensure completeness of BOQs and identify any missing items, scope gaps, quantity discrepancies, or potential commercial risks before tendering.
• Provide cost benchmarks to the Procurement and Contracts teams for commercial evaluation of bids.
• Review comparative statements and analyse quoted rates against approved budgets, market rates, and historical benchmarks.
• Assess the budget impact before finalization of work orders, purchase orders, and contract amendments.

4. Cost Monitoring and Control

• Monitor approved budget, current budget, awarded cost, committed cost, incurred cost, anticipated cost, and balance cost to complete.
• Prepare periodic project cost reports, including budget variance, cost-to-complete, estimate-at-completion, cash-flow forecast, and major cost risks.
• Track unawarded packages and update projected costs based on current market rates and procurement status.
• Identify potential cost overruns at an early stage and recommend appropriate corrective and preventive measures.
• Ensure that all approved and anticipated cost changes are incorporated into the latest project cost forecast.

5. Design Cost Management and Value Engineering

• Review design proposals, specifications, and material selections from a cost perspective.
• Provide timely cost inputs to Design and Project teams to ensure alignment with the approved project budget.
• Evaluate alternative materials, specifications, construction methodologies, and design options.
• Lead value-engineering exercises in coordination with Design, Projects, Procurement, Contracts, and consultants.
• Prepare option comparison statements highlighting cost, quality, execution time, maintenance, and lifecycle implications.
• Track approved value-engineering initiatives and quantify the cost savings achieved.
• Ensure that cost optimization does not compromise design intent, functionality, quality, safety, statutory requirements, or customer commitments.

6. Variation and Change Management

• Assess the cost impact of design changes, revised drawings, additional works, site instructions, and changes in specifications.
• Review Variation Order Requests submitted by contractors, consultants, and project teams.
• Validate contractual entitlement, quantities, rates, supporting documents, and budget availability for proposed variations.
• Maintain a consolidated Variation Order Register covering approved, pending, anticipated, rejected, and under-review variations.
• Provide detailed cost-impact statements before approval of any design or scope change.
• Ensure that approved and foreseeable variations are incorporated into the revised project cost forecast.

Preferred Candidate Details:

• Bachelors degree in civil engineering from a recognized university or institution.
• Professional certification in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, or Project Management will be an added advantage
• Proficiency in Advanced MS Excel, AutoCAD, ERP/SAP, and cost-management or quantity take-off software is desirable.
• 1620 years of overall experience in project costing, estimation, budgeting, quantity surveying, or cost control within the real estate or construction industry.
• Sound experience in the costing of high-rise residential, luxury housing, villas, commercial, mixed-use, and infrastructure works.
• Hands-on experience in project budgeting, quantity take-off, rate analysis, tender estimation, value engineering, variation assessment, cost monitoring, and cost-to-complete forecasting.