Quantity Surveyor Construction

Job Position: Quantity Surveyor Construction
Ref: 4995
Location: Eastern Cape
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience

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Qualifications / Requirements:
• Tertiary Degree/Diploma
• Professional registration: ASAQS/MBA and South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession
• Minimum of 5 years technical experience
• Willing to travel to and from site and able to manage heavy workload and long hours

IT skills:
• Excel - advanced
• Word - intermediate
• PowerPoint - intermediate
• Outlook - intermediate
• Diary management - intermediate
• Navigating on virtual meeting platforms

Systems and software skills:
• OneDrive and Bos - advanced
• BuildSmart - intermediate
• Candy/CCS programming - intermediate
• SharePoint - intermediate

Management skills:
• Delegation
• Managing performance
• Mentoring skills
• Situational management of people
• Team morale and effectiveness
• Personal effectiveness skills:
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Business writing
• Collaboration skills
• Communication skills - verbal and written
• Conflict management
• Deadlines achievement
• Decision making
• Ethics and confidentiality
• Facilitation and presentation skills

Technical skills:
• Advise on legalities and common law requirements
• Capital expenditure
• Compilation of legal terms
• Compilation of reports
• Contracts amendments, bulletins
• Contracts understanding
• Drafting of compliance notices, agreements
• Financial acumen
• Forward workload planning
• Leasing arrangements
• Measurement skills
• Risk analysis
• Risk management

Key Performance Areas:
Manage the commercial profitability of projects and alignment to the financial life cycle of the business:
• Effective trade measurement calculating the correct lengths, areas and volumes; using the applied system of measurement, correct interpretation of drawings and detection of variations
• Effectively execute the project certification life cycle and final account
• Execute and monitor all cost control principles such as site storage control, updated asset registers, plant and equipment reconciliations and accurate cost codes
• Execute the relevant project contractual claims and submit with sufficient evidence
• Execute accurate cost reports to report on the alignment between budgets and allowable

Optimise contract administration and business risk:
• Understand, apply and manage common and contract law principles and all duties incorporated thereby
• Ensure compliance with construction, HSE, labour and environmental legislations
• Seamless collaboration with production team to identify profitable synergies and management of the financial integrity of the projects
• Implement and manage a document and project 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
• Manage nominated, domestic and labour only sub-contract agreements and negotiate the best sub-contractors for the work
• Understand the duties and responsibilities of Agents and Consultants

Teamwork:
• Contribute to team performance and morale and bring positive energy to the team environment
• Actively pursue personal improvement in line with role requirements; participate in team coaching and training
• Display ethical conduct and contribute to an environment of trust and a cohesive winning team culture
• Communicate and share effectively; play an active role in positive team dynamics and interdepartmental collaboration
• Respect diversity and contribute to an environment that values inclusivity