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# Senior Cost Consultant at Decima International

- **Company:** Decima International
- **Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/decimainternational/jobs/4696807006

## Job description

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:

Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Cost Consultant to support cost estimation, tender cost reconciliation, and construction cost control activities for large-scale data center and mission-critical projects in Dubai, UAE. This role requires strong cost management, commercial, analytical, and reporting skills, with the ability to support cost planning across design, tender, and construction phases.

The ideal candidate will have experience preparing design-stage cost estimates, supporting tender-stage cost reconciliation against bid prices, and managing construction-stage cost control activities for complex capital projects. The role requires the ability to work closely with project management, design, procurement, tendering, commercial, planning, and construction teams to ensure cost accuracy, budget alignment, and financial control throughout the project lifecycle.

You will play a key role in supporting the project’s cost management framework across each project phase, following the RFP’s literal per-phase structure, including design cost estimation, tender support cost reconciliation, and construction cost control.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Support cost management activities across the design, tender, and construction phases of large-scale data center and mission-critical projects.
- Prepare, review, and update cost estimates during design stages, ensuring alignment with project scope, design development, specifications, assumptions, and client requirements.
- Develop cost plans, estimate summaries, quantity take-offs, benchmarking inputs, cost breakdowns, and budget validation reports.
- Review design information, drawings, specifications, technical documents, scope narratives, and project assumptions to identify cost drivers, gaps, risks, and exclusions.
- Support tender-stage cost reconciliation by comparing internal cost estimates, bid prices, contractor submissions, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns.
- Identify variances between estimates and bid prices, including scope gaps, pricing discrepancies, quantity differences, exclusions, assumptions, escalation, contingency, allowances, and commercial risks.
- Prepare cost reconciliation reports, bid comparison summaries, tender cost analysis, and recommendation inputs for project leadership and client review.
- Coordinate with tendering, procurement, contracts, engineering, and commercial teams to support cost validation during the tender process.
- Support construction-phase cost control activities, including budget tracking, committed cost monitoring, forecast updates, cost reporting, and cost-to-complete analysis.
- Monitor actual and forecasted costs against approved budgets, identifying variances, trends, risks, and corrective actions.
- Support the review of payment applications, progress claims, variation requests, change orders, and cost impacts during construction.
- Maintain cost registers, budget logs, change logs, contingency trackers, cost reports, and supporting commercial documentation.
- Coordinate with project controls, planning, procurement, contracts, construction, and finance teams to ensure cost information is accurate, timely, and aligned across project reporting.
- Support estimate-at-completion updates, cash flow forecasting, contingency management, and cost risk assessments.
- Provide cost input into value engineering, scope optimization, procurement decisions, and commercial strategy.
- Ensure cost management activities follow the RFP’s defined phase structure, with coverage based on design, tender support, and construction requirements rather than site-concurrency scaling.
- Prepare regular cost reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and cost analysis presentations for client and leadership review.
- Support closeout activities by validating final costs, variations, claims, cost records, and commercial documentation.
- Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

## QUALIFICATIONS

Required qualifications

- 10+ years of experience in cost consulting, cost estimation, cost control, quantity surveying, commercial management, or project controls within large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects.
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, Cost Management, or a related field.
- Strong experience preparing cost estimates during design stages for complex building, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects.
- Experience supporting tender-stage cost reconciliation against contractor bid prices, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns.
- Experience supporting construction-stage cost control, including budget tracking, forecasting, cost reporting, payment review, change management, and cost-to-complete analysis.
- Strong ability to review drawings, specifications, BOQs, scope documents, tender documents, bid submissions, and commercial proposals.
- Strong knowledge of quantity take-offs, cost planning, benchmarking, cost breakdown structures, budget validation, and commercial reporting.
- Ability to identify cost variances, pricing gaps, scope omissions, exclusions, assumptions, escalation impacts, contingency requirements, and commercial risks.
- Experience coordinating with project management, engineering, procurement, tendering, contracts, planning, construction, and client teams.
- Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong communication and reporting skills with the ability to present cost information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple cost deliverables, deadlines, and stakeholder inputs.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

## Preferred qualifications

- Experience working on data center, hyperscale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale commercial building projects.
- Experience working in a PMC, owner’s representative, consultant, cost consultancy, developer, or client-side project controls environment.
- Previous experience working in Dubai, the UAE, or the wider GCC region.
- Professional membership or certification, such as MRICS, RICS, AIQS, AACE, CCP, or equivalent cost management credential.
- Experience with FIDIC-based contracts, EPC procurement, tender evaluation, cost reconciliation, and commercial risk assessment.
- Experience supporting value engineering, estimate-at-completion reporting, cash flow forecasting, contingency tracking, and change order evaluation.
- Familiarity with cost management, project controls, procurement, or document control platforms such as CostX, Candy, SAP, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Procore, Aconex, or similar systems.
- Familiarity with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project for schedule-cost interface review.
- Knowledge of MEP, CSA, ICT, and infrastructure cost elements within complex data center or mission-critical projects.

## POSITION DETAILS

- Location (On-site): Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Position: Senior Cost Consultant
- Position Classification: Salary-based full-time hours

Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to the safety and well-being of all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.

## About Decima International

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Decima International is a global professional services company providing integrated project management solutions, specializing in mission-critical facilities like hyperscale data centers and healthcare facilities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Founded in 2018)
- **Headquarters**: Allen, Texas, United States (with regional offices in Egypt, UAE, and Saudi Arabia) [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/)
- **Founded**: 2018 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl)
- **Founders**: Alaaeldin El Hadary (Co-Founder & CEO) and Amro Elhadary (Co-Founder) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Construction & Project Management, with a specific focus on mission-critical facilities (data centers, healthcare)
- **Target Customers**: Developers, operators, and investors in the data center and mission-critical construction space; clients in NAM, LATAM, APAC, and EMEA [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To help clients achieve their project goals through innovative, efficient, and high-quality project delivery, acting as a true partner built on trust and transparency [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/)

## Products & Services
- **Capital Program Advisory & Management**: Strategic oversight for large-scale capital programs.
- **Program Governance**: Project controls, schedule management, cost management, and earned value management.
- **Design Management**: Overseeing the design phase of complex construction projects.
- **Procurement & Contract Administration**: Managing vendor selection and contract lifecycle.
- **Construction Management**: On-site management to ensure projects are built on time and within budget.
- **Performance Assurance**: Quality and performance monitoring throughout project delivery [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/)
- **Risk Management**: Early identification and mitigation of project risks [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Headcount of 29 employees as of early 2026, with a significant growth trajectory (+38.5% YoY) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The firm partners with "leading developers, operators, and investors" [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth, recent expansion of global footprint with strategic hubs in KSA, UAE, and Egypt (announced Feb 2026), and a surge in job postings (+30.8% monthly increase) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Mission-Critical Specialization**: Deep expertise in hyperscale data centers and complex healthcare facilities, which require high precision and reliability.
- **Global Reach with Local Expertise**: Proven track record delivering projects from $5M to $6B across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/).
- **Hands-On, Partnership Approach**: Emphasizes a collaborative, proactive, and tailored approach to each client engagement, differentiating from more standardized project management firms [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic Expansion**: Actively building out its presence in the Middle East & North Africa (KSA, UAE, Egypt) to serve a growing client base [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).
- **Data Center Growth**: Specifically targeting the "AI-ready" data center infrastructure market, focusing on power systems for high-performance GPUs and liquid cooling solutions [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across the US (Texas, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania) and MENA region for roles like Senior Construction Project Managers, Estimators, and QA Inspectors [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).

## Why Work Here
- **Company Culture**: Described as proactive, responsive, and collaborative. The firm values strong fundamentals and a partnership ethos [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/). *However, current employee reviews on LinkedIn rate the company at 2.6/5.0, with low scores for Work-Life Balance (2.2), Compensation (2.2), and Culture (2.2)* [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).
- **Work Model**: The vast majority of positions are listed as **On-site** (e.g., Dallas, Detroit, Corsicana, Floydada), with no remote roles currently posted. Locations span the US and MENA region [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl).
- **Growth Opportunity**: Joining a rapidly expanding firm (high headcount growth, new offices) offers potential for career advancement in high-stakes project management. The company notes it manages projects ranging from $5M to $6B.
- **Team**: A lean team of ~29 people with a high proportion of senior-level staff, allowing for direct exposure to leadership and complex projects. Founders are actively involved in the company [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/).

## Sources
1. [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/) - Official Site, Locations, and Description
2. [decimaintl.com](https://decimaintl.com/about/) - About Page, Story, Vision, and Values
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decima-intl) - Company LinkedIn Profile, Headcount, Growth Data, Job Postings, and Reviews
4. [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Decima-International) - Indeed Company Profile and Description

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