- Perform and verify quantity take-offs from single-line diagrams, cable schedules, instrument index, I/O lists, hook-up drawings, cable routing, earthing and lighting layouts; where FEED is limited, develop quantities from benchmarks, ratios and historical data.
- Identify scope gaps, ambiguities and risks – including vendor-package, free-issue and contractor scope splits – and prepare technical queries and clarifications for the client.
- Develop detailed estimates for the entire scope Electrical & instrument works.
- Build unit rates from first principles (labour, plant, materials, subcontract) using productivity norms adjusted for Middle East conditions – summer working-hour restrictions, remote desert sites and logistics.
- Prepare manpower histograms, tools and test equipment requirements and durations, and provide inputs to planning and site indirects.
- Tight tender timelines, often with several bids running in parallel.
- Pricing lump-sum work with limited FEED, where cable and instrument quantities are often only indicative, with the risk of quantity growth.
- Volatile copper prices and long lead times for major electrical equipment and packaged control systems.
- Complex scope splits between vendor packages, client free-issue items and contractor scope.
- Different client standards, methods of measurement and commercial conditions from country to country.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics or Instrumentation Engineering (mandatory).
- 5–7 years of estimating experience in EPC Oil & Gas / Refinery / Petrochemical projects, preferably with at least 3 years in the GCC.
- Hands-on pricing of the E&I scope of NOC tenders (e.g. ADNOC, Saudi Aramco, QatarEnergy, PDO, KOC).
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