Senior Quantity Surveyor at Arcadis U.S.Inc. in Washington, Washington DC

Job Description:

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team in the Washington, DC area.

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As part of our Cost Management team, you'll be involved in a wide range of construction projects from global, high-profile clients to smaller projects, ensuring they're delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting, and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working. You will help manage the delivery of cost management in the construction sector of small/medium/large projects, ensuring standards of delivery meet defined objectives. You will also be responsible for delivering the defined scope of work in line with various controls and will have expert technical knowledge and experience in their field.

Role accountabilities:

• Responsible for conceptual planning, early design, pre-bid, hard-bid and negotiated contracts, including the interpretation and quantification of plans and specifications, surveying of existing site conditions, solicitation of material and subcontractor bids, cost estimates, and the preparation of bid documents and proposals.
• Prepare estimating procedures and overall estimating review and justification.
• Support Project Controls team in decision making.
• Create project costings and budgets from clear objectives, managing finances across a project to ensure profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved.
• Lead and manage individual cost management assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations.
• Monitor and review the performance and behavior of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure compliance with organizational policies and codes of conduct across the entire project team.
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service.
• Analyze and compile a range of complex data and documents, using knowledge to review and assess analysis and provide recommendations to contribute to project decision making.
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practices to support the development of current cost and commercial management systems and processes.
• Work to improve services and drive innovation to increase team contribution to project delivery.
• Manage relationships with customers to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and deliver customer satisfaction.
• Act as a key technical resource within the field of cost/commercial management, providing technical advice and solutions to internal colleagues to support successful project delivery across a range of projects.
• Build valued relationships with senior clients and stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction, develop the cost management service and create new business opportunities.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (Quantity Surveying Only)
• Relevant professional certification (i.e., Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) or similar)
• 10 or more years' relevant experience
• Relevant professional experience in a similar working environment, including delivering medium/large projects across an entire project life cycle.
• Experience managing people and demonstration of leadership skills, including the ability to motivate others.
• Experience building and managing client relationships at senior-management level, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $112,000 - $168,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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