Junior Quantity Surveyor – Abu Dhabi | Yas Projects

Company Overview:

Yas Projects is a premier, rapidly expanding civil infrastructure development firm and general contracting company delivering high-end construction assets across Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Specializing in large-scale residential projects, structural engineering developments, urban modernization initiatives, and heavy commercial building operations, the organization focuses on pristine material compliance, accurate budgetary controls, sustainable engineering methodologies, and high-fidelity project execution structures.

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly analytical, detail-driven Junior Quantity Surveyor to support post-contract financial evaluations and guide material take-offs for our centralized commercial team in Abu Dhabi. Operating as a critical cost administrator on active project sites, this full-time role focuses on verifying subcontractor measurements, balancing variation claims registers, and updating project ledger structures under our comprehensive engineering operations management framework.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in preparing highly accurate material take-offs, digital plan extractions, and structural Bills of Quantities (BOQ) according to standard measurement principles.
• Support the commercial team in framing, validating, and submitting monthly interim payment applications (IPAs) for active infrastructure sites.
• Process incoming subcontractor invoices, cross-check site progress valuations, and assist in drafting formal interim payment certifications.
• Provide technical material quantity checks to site operations teams to evaluate and validate daily purchase requests (PRs).
• Maintain clean, audit-ready commercial logs, including fluctuating variations, contract trackers, cost-to-complete models, and claims registers.
• Support comprehensive budget monitoring, cost-control activities, and baseline budget comparison exercises to mitigate project financial leakages.
• Use advanced Excel calculations, data lookup rules, and progress tracking matrices to run routine financial health analyses.
• Assist in drafting formal contractual correspondence, verifying variation orders, and assembling commercial backup packages for project stakeholders.

🔹 Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Building Economics, or a closely related construction engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
• 0 to 3 years of successful professional experience within the construction or civil engineering sectors, with active priority given to candidates holding GCC exposure.
• Strong technical literacy and hands-on familiarity navigating industry software tools, specifically including AutoCAD, Planswift, and related digital take-off systems.
• Advanced proficiency utilizing Microsoft Excel to build progress sheets, configure pivot data, and execute mathematical tracking models.
• Solid fundamental understanding of construction cost control workflows, standard methods of measurement (POMI/CESSM), and contract structures.
• Exceptional numerical and analytical data processing skills paired with an immaculate, detail-oriented approach to structural documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication capabilities to collaborate smoothly with site engineers, material suppliers, and senior commercial leads.

What We Offer:

• Competitive baseline fixed salary package structured from AED 5,000 to 7,000, determined entirely by past technical software testing and civil blueprint interpretation skills.
• Direct path to learn from elite commercial minds, master advanced cost-control metrics, and build a stellar career footprint inside Abu Dhabi’s active building sector.
• Stable, long-term career advancement pipelines and professional field training tracks supported by our integrated regional engineering jobs and project delivery networks.