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 – R1Bilj.
•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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