Senior Quantity SurveyorRail projects

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AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our expanding Rail and Metro team in Dublin. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key commercial role on some of Irelands most significant rail infrastructure programmes helping to deliver projects that improve connectivity support sustainable transport and shape the future of mobility.

Working within a multidisciplinary team you will provide commercial leadership and cost management services across all stages of the project lifecycle. Youll collaborate with clients designers contractors and project managers to ensure successful project delivery while driving value managing risk and maintaining robust financial control.

What Youll Do

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor you will be responsible for delivering high-quality quantity surveying and commercial management services across complex rail and metro projects. Your responsibilities will include:

• Deliver quantity surveying and cost management services across major rail and metro infrastructure projects.
• Prepare cost estimates cost plans budgets tender documentation and procurement reports.
• Lead cost planning and cost control activities throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Administer contracts and support procurement strategies in accordance with project requirements.
• Evaluate tenders variations compensation events claims and final accounts.
• Monitor project costs cash flow forecasts and commercial performance against approved budgets.
• Identify commercial risks and opportunities while supporting value engineering initiatives to optimise project outcomes.
• Build strong working relationships with clients contractors consultants and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Prepare commercial reports and provide accurate financial forecasting to support informed decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with AECOM governance contractual obligations and industry best practice.
• Mentor and support junior quantity surveyors contributing to the continued growth and development of the team.

This role offers the opportunity to work on high-profile rail and metro programmes in Ireland while developing your career within one of the worlds leading infrastructure consultancies.

Qualifications :

Were looking for someone who has:

• A degree in Quantity Surveying Construction Economics or a related discipline.
• Chartered status or is working towards chartership with SCSI RICS or an equivalent professional body.
• Proven experience delivering quantity surveying and cost management services on rail metro or major transportation infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of standard forms of contract including NEC and Public Works Contracts with experience administering contracts on complex infrastructure schemes.
• Experience in cost estimating cost planning procurement contract administration change control claims management and commercial reporting.
• The ability to manage project costs financial forecasting risk and value engineering throughout the project lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical negotiation and commercial problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities with experience working collaboratively with clients contractors designers and multidisciplinary teams.
• The ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced rail infrastructure environment while maintaining a high standard of commercial delivery.

Additional Information :

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About AECOM

AECOM is the worlds trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation buildings water new energy and the environment our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise a culture of equity diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time