Quantity Surveyor em Porto, Portugal

Quantity Surveyor

Company: CTS Group

Location: Porto, Portugal

Work Type: Full-Time, On-Site

Openings: Junior, Intermediate and Senior Levels

Reporting To: Quantity Surveyor / Commercial Manager / Commercial Manager & QS Lead / Head of Commercial / Commercial Director, depending on seniority

About CTS Group

CTS Group is a fast-growing international design and build company specialising in data centre development across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). We combine engineering excellence, innovation, and digital transformation to deliver high-performance, sustainable, and future-ready data centre solutions.

With over 40 nationalities represented across our teams, CTS fosters a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture where innovation and technical precision drive every project. CTS also develops digital systems and standardised modular data centre units for hyperscalers, colocation providers, and enterprise clients, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, complex data centre facilities with speed, efficiency, and excellence.

Role Overview

CTS Group is hiring BIM Specialist Quantity Surveyors across Junior, Intermediate, and Senior levels to support cost management, BIM-based measurement, procurement, commercial management, and cost reporting across data centre and mission-critical projects in the EMEA portfolio.

Depending on seniority, responsibilities range from supporting 5D quantity take-off, BOQ preparation and valuations to independently managing work packages and, at Senior level, owning project-wide cost strategy, commercial risk, forecasting, client/vendor negotiations, and mentoring QS teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform and/or lead 5D quantity take-off and measurement from Revit/IFC models using Navisworks Quantification, Autodesk Takeoff and CostX, validating model completeness and LOD suitability.
• Prepare and maintain Bills of Quantities (mapa de quantidades), measurement schedules, cost estimates and cost plans across design stages.
• Maintain cost data, rate libraries and commercial registers.
• Support or lead procurement activities, including tender documentation, bid comparison, analysis, levelling and award recommendations.
• Assess and certify interim valuations and subcontractor payment applications;
  measure, value and agree variations and change orders.
• Produce cost reports, forecast final cost, track committed cost, risk and contingency, and manage Cost/Value Reconciliation (CVR) .
• Manage subcontractor/vendor measurement, valuation, package-level commercial risk, claims and final accounts.
• Support procurement of long-lead critical equipment including chillers, generators, UPS, switchgear and transformers , including vendor pricing and milestone/payment terms.
• Cross-check model-based quantities against drawings and identify model gaps or anomalies.
• Maintain document control and filing within the Common Data Environment, including BIM 360 / Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) and Aconex .
• Ensure outputs comply with the BIM Execution Plan, applicable measurement conventions, CTS and client requirements .
• Apply RICS NRM / NRM2 and LNEC measurement conventions and work within ISO 19650, BEP, LOD and EIR requirements.
• At Senior level, define and own cost-management and procurement strategy, approve estimates, cost plans, valuations, variations and final accounts, and own whole-project cost certainty, forecast final cost, margin and CVR.
• At Senior level, lead client and major subcontractor/vendor commercial negotiations, including critical-equipment packages.
• At Senior level, establish measurement and Level of Information Need (LOIN) requirements within the EIR and BIM Execution Plan to enable reliable 5D take-off.
• At Senior level, lead hyperscale/colocation client cost reporting using RICS NRM / ICMS , including cost-per-MW benchmarking, cashflow/S-curves, change and risk registers, and contingency drawdown.
• At Senior level, own contract and commercial risk, entitlement and claims strategy under NEC/FIDIC and GMP/target-cost arrangements .
• Lead value engineering and design-to-budget strategies at Senior level.
• Guide Junior Quantity Surveyors and, at Senior level, mentor and develop Junior and Intermediate QS professionals and review deliverables.
• Support resourcing and commercial programme planning across concurrent packages/projects.

Required Skills and Experience

Junior: 3–5 Years

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering (Engenharia Civil), Construction Management (Gestão da Construção) or a related discipline.
• 3–5 years of experience in quantity surveying, cost estimating or medições e orçamentos , ideally within construction or the built environment.
• Exposure to large-scale construction, industrial, data centre or mission-critical projects is desirable.
• Working knowledge of Revit and Navisworks , with exposure to CostX, Cubicost or Bluebeam and strong Excel skills.
• Awareness of ISO 19650, BEP, LOD and CDE workflows.
• Strong organisation, attention to detail and communication skills.

Intermediate: 5–10 Years

• 5–10 years of quantity surveying/cost management experience with demonstrable end-to-end package ownership.
• Experience in data centre, mission-critical, industrial or large-scale infrastructure projects, with understanding of MEP-heavy cost structures and redundancy concepts such as N+1, 2N and Tier ratings .
• Strong command of 5D BIM measurement using CostX, Cubicost, Navisworks Quantification and Autodesk Takeoff , plus CostX/Causeway CATO/RIB Candy or equivalent cost software.
• Strong Excel and proficiency in Revit/Navisworks model review and CDE platforms including BIM 360/ACC and Aconex.
• Working knowledge of RICS NRM2, ISO 19650, BEP, LOD and awareness of NEC/FIDIC contracts.

Senior: 10+ Years

• 10+ years of quantity surveying/commercial management experience, including senior ownership of cost delivery on major, complex projects.
• Substantial experience in data centre, mission-critical or comparable large-scale infrastructure programmes , with deep understanding of MEP-dominated cost structures, resilience topology and cost-per-MW benchmarking .
• Expert command of 5D BIM measurement and cost-management ecosystems, including CostX, Causeway CATO, RIB Candy, Navisworks Quantification and Autodesk Takeoff , within a CDE such as BIM 360/ACC.
• Authoritative knowledge of RICS NRM, ICMS, ISO 19650, BEP, LOD/LOIN and EIR authoring .
• Deep expertise in NEC and FIDIC contract forms and GMP/target-cost commercial mechanisms.
• Proven leadership, mentoring and executive/client/vendor negotiation skills.

What We Offer

An opportunity to work with CTS Group on large-scale, complex data centre and mission-critical projects across the EMEA portfolio , within a collaborative, international and technically driven environment.