Decima International - Senior Cost Consultant
Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in cost consulting, cost estimation, cost control, quantity surveying, commercial management, or project controls within large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects. • 10+ years • Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, Cost Management, or a related field. • Strong experience preparing cost estimates during design stages for complex building, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects. • Experience supporting tender-stage cost reconciliation against contractor bid prices, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns. • Experience supporting construction-stage cost control, including budget tracking, forecasting, cost reporting, payment review, change management, and cost-to-complete analysis. • Strong ability to review drawings, specifications, BOQs, scope documents, tender documents, bid submissions, and commercial proposals. • Strong knowledge of quantity take-offs, cost planning, benchmarking, cost breakdown structures, budget validation, and commercial reporting. • Ability to identify cost variances, pricing gaps, scope omissions, exclusions, assumptions, escalation impacts, contingency requirements, and commercial risks. • Experience coordinating with project management, engineering, procurement, tendering, contracts, planning, construction, and client teams. • Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy. • Strong communication and reporting skills with the ability to present cost information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple cost deliverables, deadlines, and stakeholder inputs. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. • Experience working on data center, hyperscale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale commercial building projects. • data center • Experience working in a PMC, owner’s representative, consultant, cost consultancy, developer, or client-side project controls environment. • Previous experience working in Dubai, the UAE, or the wider GCC region. • Professional membership or certification, such as MRICS, RICS, AIQS, AACE, CCP, or equivalent cost management credential. • MRICS • Experience with FIDIC-based contracts, EPC procurement, tender evaluation, cost reconciliation, and commercial risk assessment. • Experience supporting value engineering, estimate-at-completion reporting, cash flow forecasting, contingency tracking, and change order evaluation. • Familiarity with cost management, project controls, procurement, or document control platforms such as CostX, Candy, SAP, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Procore, Aconex, or similar systems. • Familiarity with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project for schedule-cost interface review. • Knowledge of MEP, CSA, ICT, and infrastructure cost elements within complex data center or mission-critical projects.
Responsibilities
• Support cost management activities across the design, tender, and construction phases of large-scale data center and mission-critical projects. • Prepare, review, and update cost estimates during design stages, ensuring alignment with project scope, design development, specifications, assumptions, and client requirements. • Develop cost plans, estimate summaries, quantity take-offs, benchmarking inputs, cost breakdowns, and budget validation reports. • Review design information, drawings, specifications, technical documents, scope narratives, and project assumptions to identify cost drivers, gaps, risks, and exclusions. • Support tender-stage cost reconciliation by comparing internal cost estimates, bid prices, contractor submissions, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns. • Identify variances between estimates and bid prices, including scope gaps, pricing discrepancies, quantity differences, exclusions, assumptions, escalation, contingency, allowances, and commercial risks. • Prepare cost reconciliation reports, bid comparison summaries, tender cost analysis, and recommendation inputs for project leadership and client review. • Coordinate with tendering, procurement, contracts, engineering, and commercial teams to support cost validation during the tender process. • Support construction-phase cost control activities, including budget tracking, committed cost monitoring, forecast updates, cost reporting, and cost-to-complete analysis. • Monitor actual and forecasted costs against approved budgets, identifying variances, trends, risks, and corrective actions. • Support the review of payment applications, progress claims, variation requests, change orders, and cost impacts during construction. • Maintain cost registers, budget logs, change logs, contingency trackers, cost reports, and supporting commercial documentation. • Coordinate with project controls, planning, procurement, contracts, construction, and finance teams to ensure cost information is accurate, timely, and aligned across project reporting. • Support estimate-at-completion updates, cash flow forecasting, contingency management, and cost risk assessments. • Provide cost input into value engineering, scope optimization, procurement decisions, and commercial strategy. • Ensure cost management activities follow the RFP’s defined phase structure, with coverage based on design, tender support, and construction requirements rather than site-concurrency scaling. • Prepare regular cost reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and cost analysis presentations for client and leadership review. • Support closeout activities by validating final costs, variations, claims, cost records, and commercial documentation. • Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
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