Cost Control Engineer

• Prepare, review and manage BOQs, quantity take-offs, measurements, cost estimates, rate analysis, and pricing schedules.
• Review drawings, specifications, scope, surveys, and site measurements to verify quantities and identify discrepancies or omissions.
• Prepare and maintain project budgets, cost plans, commitments, actual costs, forecasts, and final cost projections.
• Prepare cost-to-complete and estimate-at-completion forecasts and identify cost overruns, risks, savings, and commercial exposure.
• Prepare tender BOQs, pricing schedules, and tender packages.
• Review contractor bids, quotations, rates, preliminaries, exclusions, and qualifications, and prepare commercial evaluation reports.
• Manage tender clarifications, negotiations, and tender recommendations.
• Review contract conditions, commercial obligations, payment provisions, notices, claims, changes, and commercial risks.
• Assess variations and change orders, including quantities, rates, quotations, and contractual entitlement, and maintain variation registers.
• Review contractor claims, assess quantities, rates, contractual entitlement, and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate with Finance/Accounts on invoices, payments, accruals, commitments, actual expenditure, monthly closing, budget reconciliation, and cash-flow forecasting.
• Prepare monthly cost reports covering budgets, contract values, variations, commitments, payments, expenditure, accruals, forecast final cost, cost-to-complete, and cash flow.
• Maintain complete commercial audit trails and records for tenders, contracts, BOQs, approvals, payments, invoices, variations, claims, commitments, and budget revisions.
• Prepare, review, and negotiate final accounts and support commercial project close-out.
• Coordinate with Project Management, Engineering, Construction/Site, Procurement, Contracts, Finance, Consultants, Contractors, and Subcontractors on commercial matters.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline.
• 8–10 years of relevant experience in Quantity Surveying / Cost Control.
• Client-side, developer, consultant, or PMC experience is preferred.
• Strong experience in BOQ preparation, quantity measurement, estimation, tendering, cost planning, cost control, payment certification, variations, claims, contracts, and final accounts.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Primavera P6, or similar reporting tools is an advantage.