Quantity Surveyor Manager

Job Purpose

HanmiGlobal is seeking a highly qualified Quantity Surveyor Manager to join our program management and PMCM team in Saudi Arabia. In this role, you will lead the program-wide quantity surveying and cost verification frameworks for a mega multi-work package land and infrastructure development program in Riyadh, delivered on behalf of a major government entity.

You will be providing program-level leadership, governance, coordination, and commercial oversight for all quantity surveying activities across the program, ensuring all measurement verifications, valuation reviews, cost verifications, and payment certification supports are fully integrated, transparent, auditable, and compliant with contractual requirements, industry best practices, and Client’s expectations, while supporting the successful delivery of the overall development program

Reports To: Program Director

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Program Quantity Surveying Framework, including standards, procedures, methodologies, templates, and reporting requirements.
• Ensure the consistent application of quantity surveying practices across all project packages while promoting best practices in measurement, valuation, cost verification, and commercial assurance.
• Review and verify quantities, measurements, take-offs, bills of quantities (BoQs), valuations, payment applications, interim valuations, and final account assessments submitted by Lead Developers, contractors, consultants, and package teams.
• Provide independent verification of quantity-based payment assessments, cost estimates, schedules of rates, and commercial evaluations to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Assess the quantity and cost implications of design changes, scope modifications, variations, compensation events, and Value Engineering proposals.
• Support the Senior Commercial Manager and Project Control Manager in cost verification, commercial assessments, forecasting, and resolution of quantity-related commercial issues and disputes.
• Contribute specialist quantity surveying expertise to multidisciplinary technical and commercial reviews.
• Prepare quantity surveying reports, technical assessments, executive summaries, and recommendations for PMCM Management and the Client.
• Coordinate with commercial, technical, project controls, procurement, and package teams to ensure integrated decision-making and consistent reporting.

• Promote continuous improvement through digital measurement systems, cost management tools, knowledge sharing, and lessons learned.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Chartered Professional membership or equivalent professional accreditation.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of professional experience in quantity surveying, cost verification, infrastructure delivery, urban development, major capital projects, or mega-programs.
• Experience within PMCM, PMC, EPCM, consultancy, developer, contractor, or client-side organizations, preferably on major land development and infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.

Core Competencies

• Quantity Surveying & Measurement Verification
• Cost Verification & Valuation
• Bills of Quantities (BoQ) & Cost Planning
• Payment Certification & Final Account Assessment
• Change & Variation Management
• Commercial Analysis & Cost Reporting
• Contract Measurement Principles
• Value Engineering Review
• PMIS & Digital Cost Management Systems
• Stakeholder Coordination & Executive Reporting
• Leadership, Strategic Thinking, Communication, and Problem Solving