Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Quantity Surveyor Variations and Change Management to join our team! In this role you will get to perform a range of quantity surveying and commercial activities across an assigned project or program, with a particular focus on variation identification, valuation, contractual compliance, change management, and commercial reporting. You will help protect Parsons and the client s commercial interests by ensuring changes are identified early, accurately assessed, properly documented, and effectively negotiated.

• Review design changes, site instructions, Requests for Information, contractual notices, and revised project requirements to identify potential variations and commercial impacts.
• Assess the cost and time implications of changes, including direct costs, indirect costs, prolongation impacts, disruption, and associated commercial exposure.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates, quantity breakdowns, rate analyses, and supporting documentation for proposed variations.
• Manage the end-to-end variation and change process, including initiation, assessment, recommendation, approval, implementation, and closeout.
• Prepare and review variation orders, change requests, commercial evaluations, and supporting contractual records.
• Assist in preparing and evaluating claims related to scope changes, delays, disruptions, prolongation, and differing conditions.
• Perform quantity take-offs, remeasurement, and valuation of variation works using approved drawings, specifications, site records, and measurement standards.
• Review and validate contractor variation submissions against contractual provisions, approved scope, drawings, records, and agreed rates.
• Ensure valuations are accurate, justified, auditable, and compliant with the contract and applicable standard methods of measurement.
• Interpret and apply contract provisions related to variations, change orders, valuation mechanisms, notices, rates, and entitlement.
• Draft commercial correspondence related to variations, claims, notices, rates, valuation matters, and agreement of changes.
• Maintain accurate variation registers, change logs, cost reports, forecasts, and commercial records.
• Coordinate with design, construction, planning, engineering, project controls, and commercial teams to obtain information required for variation assessments.
• Liaise with contractors, consultants, and client representatives to clarify submissions, negotiate rates, and agree variation values.
• Attend progress, change control, and commercial meetings and present updates on variation status, cost exposure, and outstanding actions.
• Maintain comprehensive and traceable records of all variations, approvals, assessments, correspondence, and supporting documentation.
• Prepare periodic variation and change reports for internal management and client review.
• Support project cost forecasting by incorporating approved, pending, and anticipated variations.
• Identify emerging commercial risks and recommend mitigation actions to project leadership.
• Assist with project audits, commercial reviews, final accounts, and contract closeout activities.
• Ensure all commercial records are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with this position as appropriate.

• Bachelor s Degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 10 years of relevant quantity surveying experience, with a strong focus on variations, change management, valuation, and commercial administration.
• Experience supporting large infrastructure, building, mixed-use, or major construction projects.
• Strong knowledge of quantity surveying principles, standard methods of measurement, cost estimating, and cost analysis.
• Demonstrated experience managing the full variation process from identification through valuation, negotiation, approval, and closeout.
• Ability to identify changes with commercial impact at an early stage.
• Experience preparing detailed variation submissions, commercial evaluations, rate analyses, and cost breakdowns.
• Experience reviewing and validating contractor variation claims and change requests.
• Strong understanding of FIDIC or other international standard forms of construction contract.
• Ability to interpret contractual clauses related to variations, notices, rates, valuation mechanisms, and entitlement.
• Working knowledge of claims principles, including delay, disruption, prolongation, and their cost implications.
• Strong analytical capability to assess cost and time impacts.
• Ability to evaluate alternative technical solutions from a commercial and cost perspective.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in quantity, cost, and financial records.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to prepare clear commercial reports, contractual correspondence, recommendations, and justifications.
• Confident negotiation skills with contractors, consultants, clients, and project stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple variations and deadlines simultaneously.
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