Chief Quantity Surveyor Construction

Job Position: Chief Quantity Surveyor Construction
Ref: 4991
Location: Eastern Cape
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience

Qualifications / Requirements:

Qualifications/certifications required:
• Tertiary Degree
• Professional registration: ASAQS/MBA and South African Council for the Quantity Surveying profession
• Minimum of 10 years technical experience
• Minimum of 2 years Managerial experience
• Willing to travel to sites
• Ability to cope with heavy workload and long hours
• IT skills:
• Advanced diary management
• Advanced Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
• Systems and software skills:
• BuildSmart (basic)
• Candy/CSS programming (advanced)
• Lean Programme (advanced)
• OneDrive and Bos (advanced)
• SharePoint (advanced)

Management skills:
• Change management
• Delegation
• Managing performance
• Mentoring skills
• Situational management of people
• Strategic objectives management
• Team morale and effectiveness

Personal effectiveness skills:
• Analytical skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Business writing - advanced
• Communication skills - verbal and written
• Conflict management (advanced)
• Deadlines achievement (advanced)
• Decision making
• Ethics and confidentiality
• Facilitation and presentation skills (advanced)
• Mentoring and interpersonal skills
• Planning and organisation
• Problem solving ability

Technical skills:
• Advise on legalities and common law requirements
• Capital expenditure
• Commercial law and common law
• Compilation of legal claims
• Compilation of reports
• Contracts amendments, bulletins
• Contracts understanding
• Drafting of compliance notices, agreements
• Facilitation of workshops
• Financial acumen
• Forward workload planning
• Leasing arrangements
• Measurement skills
• Network with arbitrators, law
• Prepare legal matters and arbitration
• Risk analysis
• Subject matter expert on legislation
• Supplier and procurement laws

Key Performance Areas:
Manage the commercial profitability of projects and alignment to the financial life cycle of the business:
• Effective trade management using the applied system of measurement, interpretation of drawings, detection of variations and risk identification
• Effectively manage the project certification life cycle and final account
• Management of the quantity surveying function with regular spot checks on measurements, reconcile budget allocations, payments, profit enhancement opportunities and risk mitigation
• Manage the relevant project contractual claims, meet with relevant parties to minimise level of dispute and represent company in dispute resolution
• Ensure pro-active and accurate cost reports to report on the alignment between budgets and allowable
• Participate in the tender team activities to negotiate and agree profitable contracts or compile bids to win new business
• Re-work tender after cost award to set base cost report

Optimise contract administration and business risk:
• Understand, apply and manage common and contract law principles and all duties incorporated thereby
• Identification, management and settlement of contractual claims
• Seamless collaboration with production team to identify profitable synergies and management of the financial integrity of the projects
• Ensure accurate works measurements
• Implement and manage a document and management control system

Customer / Stakeholder Management:
• Ensure a clear understanding of the customer requirements and provide astute alternatives as an expert advisor where necessary
• Provide a best practice service and built sustainable relationships with key parties
• Leverage relationships with the professional team and wider network
• Negotiate, draws up and manage sub-contractor agreements
• Understand the duties and responsibilities of Agents and Consultants

Leadership and people management:
• Provide reportees with purpose, vision and goals aligned to company strategy
• Provide clarity, set objectives and manage reportees performance in accordance with assigned roles and responsibilities
• Recruit and onboard effectively and for team sustainability
• Future proof teams and performance by constantly scouting for talented staff
• Promote adaptability, flexibility and acceptance of change in the company’s culture of continuous improvement
• Promote solutions thinking, innovation and creativity
• Ensure ethical conduct and a sense of community
• Promote information sharing, guidance and inter-departmental collaboration
• Equip reportees with tools, resources and mentoring to perform to the highest level possible
• Identify talent and drive individual development plans to ensure future bench strength in department and company
• Create an environment of trust, high morale and a cohesive winning team culture