Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

A large consulting company with offices across South Africa is looking for a Quantity Surveyor.

Minimum requirements:

• BSc Quantity Surveying

• BSc Quantity Surveying (Honours)

• Professionally Registered with the Council of South African Quantity Surveyors

• Experience in Government Contracts and knowledge of the PFMA, JBCC, NEC, FIDIC, GCC and COLTO Conditions of Contracts.

• Schools, Clinics, Hospitals, Renovation and Upgrade projects, Transport Taxi Ranks, Libraries, Shopping Centres, Office blocks and Housing developments.

• Projects between R50milj – R1

Bilj.

• 3+ years (Post registration not particularly necessary).

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing costs on a wide variety of new and existing building projects and structures, such as residential developments, sports stadiums, roads and bridges, schools, hospitals, offices, factories, and commercial properties.

• Undertaking costs analysis for repair and maintenance project work.

• Maintaining awareness of the different building contracts in current use.

• Understanding the implications of health and safety regulations.

• Assisting in establishing a client's requirements and undertaking feasibility studies.

• Performing risk and value management, cost control and value engineering.

• Advising on procurement strategy, contract documentation and financial control.

• Preparing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities, returnable schedules and Preliminaries & General.

• Identifying, analysing, and developing responses to commercial risks.

• Preparing and analysing costing for tenders, tender evaluation, tender adjudication, and appointment of contractors and/or sub-contractors.

• Providing advice on contractual claims, variation orders, site instructions, escalation and final accounts.

• Analysing outcomes and writing detailed inception-, progress-, preliminary design-, final design reports.

• Valuing completed work and arranging payments.

• Assisting the Bids Department with write-ups to be used for tender purposes for future QS work.

• Calculation of escalation, penalties, monthly payment certificates and the reconciliation of the final account and close out report.

• Preparation of monthly cost report / financial reports on projects.

• Measurement of rentable areas.

• Cash-flows.

• Targeted procurement including training and monitoring.

• Offering advice on property taxation.

• Comply with Delta BEC Standards, Methodology and Procedures the contractor.

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