Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor

TRACEBUILD ENGINEERING PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is looking for a Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor to manage costs and oversee financial progress on building projects. The role includes preparing valuations, managing relationships with clients and vendors, and ensuring accuracy in budgeting and reporting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of relevant working experience in construction.
• Resourceful, meticulous, and able to maintain good relationships.
• Team player, can work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Forecast total capital requirements and monitor construction expenditure.
• Prepare interim valuations and handle progress claims.
• Source for suppliers and sub-contractors quotations.

Skills

Cost Control

Risk Management

Client Relationship Management

Tender Preparation

Education

Degree or Diploma in building/quantity surveying/civil engineering

Job description

Job Objectives/Job Summary:

As a Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor, he/she is expected to forecast total capital requirements and monitors expenditure during construction. Performs quantity take-off and handles progress claims, variation order, project costing and contract matters. He/she manages all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, from the initial calculations to the final figures as well as doing tendering works and calling for quotation.

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Ability to source for suppliers and sub-contractors quotation.
• Tabulation of price comparison and costing summary.
• Preparation of interim valuations, pricing and agreement of contract variations.
• Regular and up-to-date claim submissions and follow-up.
• Assist monthly cost and value report.
• Quantity take-off.
• Preparing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities with the architect and/or the client.
• Undertaking costs analysis for repair and maintenance project work.
• Assisting in establishing a client’s requirements and undertaking feasibility studies.
• Performing risk and value management and cost control.
• Identifying, analyzing and developing responses to commercial risks.
• Preparing and analyzing costing for tenders.
• Valuing completed work and arranging payments.
• Maintaining awareness of the different building contracts in current use.
• Understanding the implications of health and safety regulations.
• Ad-hoc assignments.

Job Specifications/Requirements:

• Degree or Diploma in building/quantity surveying/civil engineering or its equivalent.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant working experience in construction.
• Resourceful and maintain good relationship with clients and sub-contractors.
• Meticulous, independent, highly motivated and results-oriented.
• A good team player and be able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.