Jim Kelly

Director at DG Jones - Deputy Principal QS : Hamad International Airport Expansion Project

Doha, Qatar

About

Chartered Quantity Surveyor & Contract Administrator with over 30 years experience in all aspects of the profession. Director at DG Jones & Partners, Doha, State of Qatar. Deputy Principal QS on Hamad International Airport Expansion Project. Associate Director at David Adamson and Partners, Edinburgh from March 2017 to February 2019. Previously Cost Management Team Leader on Parsons Transportation Group Programme on Hamad International Airport (formerly New Doha International Airport), Qatar with DG Jones and Partners. Formerly Head of Quantity Surveying Department for Omrania & Associates, a large multi-disciplinary architecture & engineering practice based in their Head Office in Riyadh, KSA. Immediately prior to this Director/Partner in Wilkinson & Lowe, an Independent Chartered Surveying Practice in the Central Belt of Scotland. Joined Wilkinson & Lowe in August 2001 as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, promoted to Associate in November 2001 & assumed as Partner in April 2002. Appointed Director on Incorporation of firm in 2012. Responsibility for managing the Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying & CDM Coordinator functions of the firm. Successfully secured new business and consequently repeat business with numerous clients in the private sector, food producers, local authorities, local NHS and Housing Associations, both on a formal framework basis and on an informal repeat business basis. Experience in large scale Airport Projects, multi-disciplinary rail projects including the construction of new stations on existing lines, reintroduction of services to previously disused lines and general station upgrade works, infrastructure, health, leisure, industrial, residential (both large scale development and one-off), education, food production and commercial sectors.

Experience

  • DG Jones and Partners (7 yrs 5 mos)
    • Director
      Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

    • Associate Director - Deputy Principal QS : Hamad International Airport Expansion Project
      Mar 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Associate Director at David Adamson Group
    Mar 2017 - Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Cost Management Team Leader at DG Jones and Partners
    Nov 2013 - Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Cost Management Team Leader on Mace International projects at New Doha International Airport; Projects in excess of US$100,000,000 (to July 2014); Deputy Cost Management Team Leader (August 2014 to December 2015), Cost Management Team Leader (January 2016 - March 2017) on Parsons Transportation Group programme at New Doha International Airport; Programme in excess of US$2,000,000,000

  • Chief Quantity Surveyor at Omrania & Associates
    Jan 2013 - Oct 2013 · 10 mos

  • Partner at Wilkinson and Lowe
    Aug 2001 - Jan 2013 · 11 yrs 6 mos

    Chartered Quantity Surveyor and full Equity Partner, responsibility for Glasgow Office of medium sized independent Chartered Surveying Practice encompassing Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, Employer's Agent and CDM Coordinator divisions. Active member of the Master Court of the Incorporation of Wrights in Glasgow.