Junior Quantity Surveyor Construction

Job Position: Junior Quantity Surveyor Construction
Ref: 4996
Location: Eastern Cape
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience

Qualifications / Requirements:
• Tertiary Degree/Diploma
• Professional registration: ASAQS/MBA
• Willing to travel to and from site and handle heavy workload and long hours

IT skills:
• Excel - basic
• Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
• Outlook - basic
• PowerPoint - basic
• Word - basic
• Systems and software skills:
• BuildSmart - basic
• Candy/CCS programming - basic
• OneDrive and Bos - advanced
• SharePoint - advanced

Personal effectiveness skills:
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Business writing
• Communication skills - verbal and written
• Conflict management
• Deadlines achievement
• Decision making
• Ethics and confidentiality
• Interpersonal skills
• Planning and organising
• Problem solving
• Team player
• Telephone etiquette
• Time management

Technical skills:
• Compilation of reports
• Contracts understanding
• Financial acumen
• Forward workload planning
• 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
• Assist in deliverables as required for the project certification life cycle and final account
• Assist with all cost control principles such as site storage control, updated asset registers, plant and equipment reconciliations ,accurate cost codes and time keeping and wages
• Assist in the compilation of accurate cost reports
• Prepare Bills of Quantities, electronic worksheets, sub-contractor adjudication and generation of certificates

Optimise contract administration and business risk:
• Understand, apply and manage common and contract law principles and clarifying design issues
• 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
• Administer and comply with the project document and management control system and check revised documentation for changes

Customer / stakeholder management:
• 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

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 inter-departmental collaboration
• Respect diversity and contribute to an environment that values inclusivity
• Contribute to innovative and entrepreneurial business ideas to improve processes or reduce costs