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. Beyond construction, CTS develops digital systems and standardised modular data centre units to meet the evolving needs of hyperscalers, colocation providers, and enterprise clients.

Our proven track record and strong partnerships have established CTS as a trusted industry leader delivering large-scale, complex data centre facilities with speed, efficiency, and excellence.

Role Overview

The Senior BIM Specialist Quantity Surveyor sets the cost-management and measurement strategy for a data centre project, campus or programme, holds commercial sign-off authority, and mentors junior and intermediate quantity surveyors. The role owns whole-project cost certainty — forecast final cost, margin and CVR — and leads the most senior client and vendor commercial negotiations.

The position defines how models are made "measurable by design" through the EIR/BEP, leads hyperscale-client cost reporting, and drives commercial strategy on fast-track, MEP-dominated delivery, across CTS's EMEA project portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the cost-management and procurement strategy for a major project, campus or programme.
• Hold sign-off authority for estimates, cost plans, valuations, variations, and final accounts, and act as senior commercial decision-maker.
• Own the whole-project cost report, forecast final cost, margin, and cost/value reconciliation (CVR).
• Lead commercial negotiations with clients and major subcontractors/vendors, including long-lead critical-equipment packages (chillers, generators, UPS, switchgear, transformers).
• Set measurement and Level of Information Need requirements into the EIR and BIM Execution Plan so BIM models support reliable 5D take-off.
• Lead hyperscale/colocation client cost reporting to RICS NRM / ICMS structures, including cost-per-MW benchmarking, cashflow/S-curves, change and risk registers, and contingency drawdown.
• Own contract and commercial risk, entitlement, and claims strategy under NEC/FIDIC and GMP/target-cost arrangements.
• Lead value-engineering and design-to-budget strategy across the project.
• Mentor and develop junior and intermediate quantity surveyors and review their deliverables.
• Support resourcing and commercial programme planning across concurrent packages/projects.

Required Skills and Experience

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering (Engenharia Civil), Construction Management (Gestão da Construção), or a related discipline; postgraduate qualification advantageous.
• 10+ years of experience in quantity surveying / commercial management, including senior ownership of cost delivery on major, complex projects.
• Substantial track record on 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 (CostX, Causeway CATO, RIB Candy, Navisworks Quantification/Autodesk Takeoff) over a CDE (BIM 360 / ACC).
• Authoritative knowledge of RICS NRM and ICMS, ISO 19650, BEP, LOD/LOIN, and EIR authoring.
• Deep expertise in NEC and FIDIC contract forms and GMP/target-cost commercial mechanisms.
• Strong command of Portuguese measurement and public-/private-contract conventions (LNEC rules, Código dos Contratos Públicos, "erros e omissões", "trabalhos a mais/complementares").
• Proven leadership, mentoring, and executive/client/vendor negotiation skills.
• Fluent Portuguese and English.
  
  
  

  What We Offer

  CTS Group provides the opportunity to work on distinguished international data center projects within a structured, high-performance environment. The company supports progressive career growth and exposure to recognized engineering and construction teams across EMEA.

  If you have the profile we’re looking for, apply for the opportunity to join an excellent team and contribute to the success of a fast-growing international company.