Chief Quantity Surveyor Grade ; Osd Post

CHIEF QUANTITY SURVEYOR GRADE A (OSD) POST

• Reference Number : REFS/035373
• Directorate : INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
• Number of Posts : 1
• Package : R  per annum all-inclusive package

• Grade 12 plus bachelor’s degree (NQF level
  7) in Quantity Survey. Six years quantity survey post qualification experience. Compulsory registration with South African Council of Quantity Surveying Professionals (SACQSP) as a professional Quantity Surveyor. Valid driver’s license.
  
  COMPETENCIES:
  
  Computer literacy, Knowledge of the following:
  Programme and Project Management. Quantity Survey , legal and operational compliance. Quantity Survey operational communication. Research and development. Computer-aided engineeringapplications. Technical consulting. Professional judgment. Strategic capability and leadership;
  Problem solving and analysis. Team leadership. Communication (written and verbal).

• Determine the costs functional and technical norms and standards in line with nationally prescribed norms and standards. Apply cost norms and standards in terms of all projects. Validate that infrastructure projects implemented by Implementing Agent[s] comply with approved cost norms. Update cost norms and standards based on learning generated through post project evaluations and post occupancy evaluations. Develop policies, procedures and criteria for infrastructure projects from a quantity surveyor perspective.
  
  Undertake extensive analyses from a quantity surveyor perspective to inform strategies related to the quantity surveyor services to directly support and realise the goals of the Department. Make inputs to and initiate Project Initiation Reports, Strategic Briefs, Concept & Viability Reports or sign of in the case of outsourced services. Provide a quantity surveyor inputs to the End of the Year Evaluation and preparation of the End of Year Evaluation Report.
  
  Provide a quantity surveyor inputs to the User Asset Management Plan. Make technical inputs to the finalisation of the project list. Assist with Technical Condition Assessments from a quantity surveyor perspective. Develop Business Cases for projects. Determine document management system requirements from a quantity surveyor perspective. Provide quantity surveyor inputs to prepare the Infrastructure Programme Management Plan. Monitor the implementation of Programmes and Projects by the Implementing Agent [IA] and the adherence to the Service Delivery Agreement.
  
  Manage project implementation of projects that are not allocated to an Implementing Agent [IA]. Review and sign-off on the Infrastructure Programme Implementation Plan [IPIP] as prepared by the Implementing Agent [IA]. Review and sign-off on the Project Execution Plans Versions 2 – 7 prepared by the Implementing Agent [IA]. Review and recommend Variation Orders in terms of contract management practice and financial implications.
  
  Recommend authorisation of payments in line with the conditions of the appointments, contract management practices and within financial delegations. Develop and Approve Project Stage reports & designs, in accordance with strategic decision-making points as defined in the Provincial Infrastructure Delivery Framework. [IDMS]. Manage the updating of project/programme documentation and information and submit all built environment documentation and the financial documents to the Assistant Director Finance.
  
  Manage the interface between the end-user/community structures and Implementing Agent [IA]. Prepare and submit progress reports [financial and non-financial indicators]. Coordinate and participate in project commissioning, including site visits. Review the Maintenance Plans and budgets on completion of projects. Collect and update systems [if applicable] in terms of Technical Condition Assessments. Orientate users in terms of the optimal usage of Facilities.
  
  Review infrastructure projects and programmes in line with the built environment norms, standards and legislative requirements. Manage and participate in Post Project and Post Occupancy Evaluation exercises. Determine functional and technical norms and standards that should be updated from a quantity surveyors’…