Quantity Surveyor Job at Lexicon, Inc (Calvert)

Job Description

The Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the measurement, verification, tracking, and reporting of installed construction quantities for assigned EPC projects. This position works closely with Construction Management, Project Controls, Engineering, Procurement, Contracts, and Accounting teams to ensure accurate progress measurement, cost forecasting, subcontractor payment validation, and change management throughout the project lifecycle. The Quantity Surveyor serves as the primary resource for quantity management and progress verification, ensuring that installed work is accurately measured, documented, and reported. This position supports project cost control, earned value measurement, subcontract administration, forecasting, and commercial management activities by providing reliable field-based quantity data. This position is ultimately responsible for ensuring project quantities, progress measurements, and commercial reporting accurately reflect actual project performance and support successful project execution.

Job Responsibility

Develop and maintain quantity tracking systems for assigned project scopes including civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, and equipment installation activities
Perform quantity takeoffs and quantity verification utilizing engineering drawings, models, specifications, field measurements, and construction reports
Track installed quantities against budgeted quantities, estimate quantities, subcontract quantities, and forecasted quantities
Verify subcontractor progress claims, invoices, and applications for payment through field inspections and quantity validation
Support monthly progress reporting by validating installed quantities, percent complete measurements, earned value calculations, and productivity metrics
Collaborate with Construction Management and Project Controls teams to develop and maintain quantity-based progress measurement systems
Monitor quantity growth, quantity trends, scope changes, and productivity impacts throughout project execution
Support change management processes by identifying quantity impacts associated with design revisions, field changes, change orders, and scope growth
Develop quantity forecasts and assist with cost forecasting based on actual installed quantities and projected quantities to complete
Prepare routine reports summarizing installed quantities, progress achieved, productivity trends, quantity growth, and forecasted outcomes
Maintain quantity tracking databases, progress measurement records, quantity backup documentation, and audit files
Coordinate with Engineering teams to understand drawing revisions, design changes, and their impact on project quantities and execution plans
Support Contracts and Commercial teams by providing quantity documentation required for subcontract administration, claims support, dispute resolution, and change order development
Participate in project site walks, quantity verification inspections, progress reviews, and contractor coordination meetings
Collaborate with Accounting, Contracts, Project Controls, and Construction teams to ensure consistency between field progress, cost reporting, earned value reporting, and subcontractor payments
Work under the direction of the Director of Project Controls and assigned Project Manager and communicate quantity variances, forecasting concerns, commercial risks, and progress measurement issues in a timely manner

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of experience in quantity surveying, project controls, estimating, field engineering, cost engineering, commercial management, or industrial construction within the Metals, Oil & Gas, Chemical, Power, Manufacturing, or Heavy Industrial sectors.
Strong understanding of construction drawings, quantity takeoffs, construction means and methods, progress measurement systems, subcontract administration, cost control principles, and change management processes.
Must possess proficient oral and written communication skills.
Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and construction management software platforms.
Experience with quantity tracking systems, earned value management, cost reporting, estimating software, and construction progress measurement systems is strongly preferred.
Experience reading and interpreting civil, structural, mechanical, piping, and electrical drawings is highly desirable.
You must be legally authorized to work in the United States for our company without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice to have

Experience with quantity tracking systems, earned value management, cost reporting, estimating software, and construction progress measurement systems
Experience reading and interpreting civil, structural, mechanical, piping, and electrical drawings