Quantity Surveyor (Facade)

Aplus Global Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 67,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Aplus Global Pte Ltd is seeking a cost planning professional to support tendering and post-tender phases in Singapore. The role focuses on forecasting costs, preparing cost plans, and ensuring competitive and fair contract terms with clients.

Responsibilities include preparing tender documents, negotiating terms, managing risks, and monitoring costs to keep the project within budget. Mandarin language skills are a plus for communication with Chinese colleagues.

Qualifications

• Experience in cost planning for tenders and projects.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Mandarin proficiency is advantageous for Chinese colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Develop a detailed cost plan for tendering, including materials, labor, equipment, overheads, contingencies and indirect costs.
• Prepare and submit tender documents and negotiate contract terms that are fair and balanced.
• Identify and mitigate risks affecting cost, quality or schedule.
• Find cost-effective solutions to achieve project outcomes.
• Monitor costs during execution and keep the project within budget; track variances and propose corrective actions.
• Manage variations, assess costs, negotiate with clients and sub-contractors, and settle final accounts.

Skills

Cost estimation

Tendering

Budgeting

Risk assessment

Negotiation

Communication

Job description

• Develop a detailed cost plan for the tendering project, which involves estimating the costs of materials, labor, and equipment required to complete the project, along with overheads, contingencies, and other indirect costs.
• Be involved in the tendering process, preparing and submitting tender documents
• Negotiate the contract terms and conditions with clients, ensuring that the terms are fair and balanced.
• Be responsible for identifying and mitigating risks that could impact the project's cost, quality, or schedule.
• Find cost-effective solutions to achieve the desired project outcomes.

Post Contract Phase

• Monitor costs and ensure that the project is delivered within budget. This requires to track actual costs against the cost plan, identify any cost overruns, and suggest corrective action to keep costs under control.
• Manage variations, which are changes to the scope of work that may impact the project's cost or schedule. This involves assessing the cost and time implications of variations and negotiating with the clients and sub-contractors.
• Assess sub-contractor's progress claims, issue payment certificates and settle final accounts.

Requirement:

• Good problem solving and communication skills
• Must be hard working and be able to work under pressure
• Prioritize candidate who can have a good command of Mandarin for effective communication with Chinese colleagues