Company Description
At Turner & Townsend, we are passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. With more than 6,000 professionals in 112 offices across 45 countries, we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, providing the skills and insight to improve the way they develop, deliver, and operate their physical real estate assets.
Across private and public sectors, our talented professionals provide the most innovative solutions for our clients’ greatest challenges. Our clients value our proactive and client-centric approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality of the work we deliver. As a result, our employees get to work for the top global brands on some of the most exciting projects around the world.
This role will be for a Senior QS for our infrastructure division, based in Durban.
Job Description
- Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
- Providing estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Reviewing and participating with the design services team and general contractor in the development of the cost estimates.
- Reconciling changes and assisting the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.
- Communicating or meeting with the general contractor and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
- Preparing written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary.
- Coordinating all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es.
- Informing and driving engineering priorities based on cost impact.
- Working proactively with minimal supervision to resolve scheduling issues.
- Managing cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects. Completing timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
- Participating effectively with post-contract cost variances and the change control processes.
- Managing cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs.
- Preparing funding data presentations and coordinating VE sessions with stakeholders.
You will also be responsible for:
Pre-Contract
- Developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
- Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
- Reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.
Post-Contract
- Performing quantity surveying, cost controls, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
- Ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place.
- Carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client.
- Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed in a timely manner.
- Compiling as-built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes.
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to professional standard in Quantity Surveying with membership of an appropriate professional body and/or educated to degree level.
- Relevant successful experience of provision of estimating and/or QS services in a mining environment to high-profile or complex major projects or programmes.
- Knowledge of project management, planning, risk, and investment processes.
- A strong technical cost management or estimating competency is essential.
- Must have knowledge in the use and benefits of cost management systems.
- Strong knowledge of construction contracts, JBCC, NEC3/4, and FIDIC.
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience in managing and leading large teams and successful setting and implementation of business strategy.
- Preferred degree in quantity surveying or associated construction field.
Additional Information
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorized Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited by the Recruitment Team to submit candidates for review.
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