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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nManaging Quantity Surveyor / Contract Administrator\nAbu Dhabi, UAE\nParsons is looking for a Managing Quantity Surveyor / Contract Administrator to add to our Commercial and Contracts team in Abu Dhabi. In this role you will get to perform pre and post contract and commercial activities typical to the engineering and construction industry in the UAE. This is a varied role that may be required to be located either in our head office in Abu Dhabi with the requirement to visit sites or be based on site on a full-time basis depending on the needs of the business. Having flexibility to react to the business needs is essential to be successful in this role.\nThis is a mid-level Contracts role that requires appropriately skilled and experienced people to be able to work autonomously and support projects that require commercial and contractual support or work from our head office on variations, EOT’s, claims, payments, procurement, tendering etc. This role would suit a seasoned internationally experienced QS or a Senior QS who is ready to step up on the path to becoming a Commercial Manager. This is not a traditional measurement QS role.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nSupporting Clients in the procurement of their Contractors, Consultants, Designers etc. This may involve preparing and reviewing tender documents and managing Parsons internal resource to prepare technical information to the required standard.\n\nManaging downstream procurement for Subconsultants procured directly for Parsons, working with the internal Parsons procurement team to ensure the Parsons procurement process is managed and adhered to accordingly.\n\nManaging Independent Cost Consultants on various pre and post contract projects.\n\nLead in the evaluation of variation orders, EOT’s, and claims and preparing reports to the Client on the Contractor entitlement.\n\nProviding advice to various internal and external stakeholders on matters of a contractual nature and providing contractual support, where required, ensuring completeness and validity of all contractual requirements.\n\nOversee the financial and contractual aspects of projects and provide support on all financial and contractual matters throughout the course of the project including reporting both internally and externally.\n\nAssess Contractor’s monthly payment applications, making sure that all cost and quantity records are streamlined and kept in order and provide the appropriate reports to our Clients.\n\nLiaise with the measurement QS team for any measurement related and pricing matters.\n\nEnsure that records are being kept as required and to the appropriate level of detail.\n\nAdvise on contractor’s resource allocation.\n\nAudit Contractor payments.\n\nMonitor Contractor final cost estimates.\n\nCoordinate and monitor activities of the wider team where required.\n\nPrepare Final Accounts with all supporting documentation.\n\nAny other duties as required from time to time.\n\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring:\nBSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying degree from a recognized university.\n\nMore than 5 years demonstrable experience in Quantity Surveying or Contract Administration.\n\nExcellent written skills in particular with contractual correspondence. Excellent verbal communication and written skills in English is a must.\n\nProven experience in analyzing contract variations and claims.\n\nAbility to work autonomously and be a problem solver.\n\nWhat Desired Skills You'll Bring:\nChartered by a recognised international body such as Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) will be an added advantage.\n\nExperience with FIDIC.\n\nDue to the specific Client interfaces, experience working in the UK, Australia, or New Zealand would be a strong advantage.\n\nExperience working for a Consultant providing internal and external advice.\n\nParsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!\nParsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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