Senior Quantity Surveyor

C-Quest International; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

C-Quest International, a KEO Allied Practice, invites applications for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Riyadh team. You will provide technical input across multiple projects, ensuring cost control and high-quality delivery within the discipline.

The role requires 10–15 years in consultancy, a Bachelor's in Quantity Surveying, MRICS or equivalent, and strong skills in pre-contract, variations, and cash-flow reporting. Fluency in English and proactive communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying with chartered MRICS status.
• 10–15 years’ consultancy experience in cost appraisal, procurement and project delivery.
• Strong presentation and communication skills at all levels.
• Delivery of budgets, pre-contract tender documents and cost plans.
• Ability to assess project risks and contract variations.
• Proficiency with standard measurement methods and MS Office suite.

Responsibilities

• Representing the Firm in dealings with relevant parties, managing pre-contract, measurement and cost planning.
• Communicating with project leadership on status, progress, and financial matters.
• Reviewing and approving interim payments, variations and other financial items.
• Maintaining communication with project managers, directors, and client representatives.
• Overseeing financial and contractual aspects and ensuring contract terms are followed.
• Supporting senior management on financial/contractual matters through the project lifecycle.
• Leading commercial meetings and distributing minutes.
• Ensuring cost and quantity records are accurate and up-to-date.
• Assessing cost impact of design changes and draft variation orders.

Skills

Presentations

Commercial/contractual matters

Budgeting & cost planning

Risk assessment

Communication skills

MS Project

Revit

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying

MRICS or equivalent

Tools

MS Project

Revit

MS Office

Job description

Overview

C-QUEST: The Middle East’s No. 1 Cost Consultant of the Year. For over 24 years, C-QUEST has been a driving force in shaping iconic skylines and sustainable communities across the Middle East. As an award-winning project development and cost consultancy firm, we specialize in delivering tailored, innovative, and sustainable solutions that optimize cost efficiency and commercial excellence across construction and infrastructure projects. With a team of 100+ industry experts, we provide end-to-end project support, ensuring seamless execution from inception to completion. Backed by KEO’s legacy of expertise and integrated services, C-QUEST maintains an independent, client-first approach, ensuring projects are delivered on budget and aligned with sustainability goals.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our award-winning team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

This critical role will be responsible for providingkey technical expertise and input at different stages of multiple projects to ensure the highest technical quality of delivery within specific discipline.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Representing the Firm in its dealings with relevant parties, managing pre contract, measurement and cost planning.
• Communicating with the Manager CQS and project senior cost controllers regarding the project’s status and progress as well as managing the projects in accordance with established KEO Project Management Policy and Procedures Manual.
• Responsible for the review and approval of interim payments, project variations and other financial matters.
• Maintaining communication with the project managers, directors,contractorand client’s site representatives on all project related issues.
• Overseeing the financial and contractual aspects of the project and ensuring the terms of the contract are followed and manages supplemental agreements.
• Providing support to senior management on all financial and contractual matters throughouttheprojectlifecycle.
• Convening and chairing commercial meetings as well as preparing and distributing the meeting minutes.
• Ensuring all cost and quantity records are streamlined and kept in order by the QS’s.
• Assessing, measuring,advisingand recommending on cost impact of design changes.
• Preparing Change/Variation Orders and reports upon cost impacts of such orders on the construction budget.
• Preparing draft contractual correspondence and certificates for issue to the client and contractor.
• Preparing project cost and cash flow reports.
• Participating in cost and contractual review meetings.
• Providing general commercial/contractual support to the project teams.
• Ensuring completeness and validity of all contractual requirements.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envisage that you will bring a minimum of10 - 15 years' career experience working in a consultancy with a Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying from a globally recognised university and chartered status, MRICS or equivalent.

• Excellent and effective presentations skills at all levels.
• Ability to implement commercial/contractual matters within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to analyze project variations and changes, prepare project reports, analyze information for adjustments to project budget as necessary to assure a successful project for the Client and the firm.
• Delivery of budgets and pre-contract tender documents.
• Ability to understand, identify and assess project risks.
• Knowledge of Standard Method of Measurement of construction works.
• Intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite including MS Project and Revit.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

C-Quest International is a KEO Allied Practice.

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments.

For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognised by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 57th largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2023 WA100 Survey.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.