Quantity Surveyor

Recruitment Innovations; Tatura; On-site; AUD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Girdwood Contracting Pty Ltd in Victoria, Australia is seeking a qualified Quantity Surveyor to join their team. The role involves estimating costs, preparing cost plans, and monitoring design changes and variations.

Requirements include a tertiary qualification in quantity surveying or construction management and a minimum of three years of experience. A team-based working approach is essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in quantity surveying or construction management.
• Ideally 3+ years' experience as a qualified Quantity Surveyor.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Determine construction methods, materials, and quality standards from drawings and specifications.
• Organise site labour and delivery of materials, and coordinate site activities with detailed programs.
• Obtain soil and rock samples for testing to assess soil strength and loading.

Skills

Teamwork

Education

Tertiary qualification in quantity surveying or construction management

Job description

Job Type: Permanent position | Full time position

Job Description

Girdwood Contracting Pty Ltd located in Tatura East, Victoria is seeking a qualified Quantity Surveyor to join their team. The successful candidate will need to undertake and possess:

• Determining construction methods, materials, and quality standards, and drafting and interpreting specifications, drawings, plans, construction methods and procedures
• Organising and directing site labour and the delivery of construction materials, plant, and equipment, and establishing detailed programs for the coordination of site activities
• Obtaining soil and rock samples at different depths across sites and testing samples to determine strength, compressibility and other factors that affect the behaviour of soil and rock when a structure is imposed and determining the safe loading for the soil
• Studying architectural and engineering drawings and specifications to estimate total costs, and preparing detailed cost plans and estimates as tools to assist in budgetary control
• Monitoring changes to designs, assessing effects on cost, and measuring, valuing, and negotiating variations to designs
• Analysing structural systems for both static and dynamic loads
• Designing structures to ensure they do not collapse, bend, twist or vibrate in undesirable ways
• Assessing present and future travel flow patterns considering population increase and needs change
• Designing the physical aspects of transportation systems such as highways, railroads, urban transit, air transportation, logistical supply systems and their terminals

Skills and Abilities

• Complete a tertiary qualification in quantity surveying or construction management or equivalent
• Ideally have a minimum of three years' experience as a qualified Quantity Surveyor
• The ability to work in a team environment

Salary range is $75,000 - $90,000pa commensurate with experience Fulltime Position available