Junior Quantity Surveyor (Construction)

Junior Quantity Surveyor (Construction) – Port Elizabeth.

Requirements:

Qualifications / certifications required:

• Tertiary Degree/Diploma
• Professional registration: ASAQS/MBA
• Willing to travel to and from site and handle heavy workload and long hours

IT Skills:

• Excel – basic
• Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
• Outlook – basic
• PowerPoint – basic
• Word – basic
• Systems and software skills:
• BuildSmart – basic
• Candy/CCS programming – basic
• OneDrive and Bos – advanced
• SharePoint – advanced

Personal effectiveness skills:

• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Business writing
• Communication skills – verbal and written
• Conflict management
• Deadlines achievement
• Decision making
• Ethics and confidentiality
• Interpersonal skills
• Planning and organising
• Problem solving
• Team player
• Telephone etiquette
• Time management

Technical skills:

• Compilation of reports
• Contracts understanding
• Financial acumen
• Forward workload planning
• Measurement skills
• Risk analysis
• Risk management

Key Performance Areas:

Manage the commercial profitability of projects and alignment to the financial life cycle of the business:

• Effective trade measurement calculating the correct lengths, areas and volumes; using the applied system of measurement, correct interpretation of drawings and detection of variations
• Assist in deliverables as required for the project certification life cycle and final account
• Assist with all cost control principles such as site storage control, updated asset registers, plant and equipment reconciliations, accurate cost codes and time keeping and wages
• Assist in the compilation of accurate cost reports
• Prepare Bills of Quantities, electronic worksheets, sub-contractor adjudication and generation of certificates

Optimise contract administration and business risk:

• Understand, apply and manage common and contract law principles and clarifying design issues
• Ensure compliance with Construction, HSE, Labour and Environmental Legislations
• Seamless collaboration with production team to identify profitable synergies and management of the financial integrity of the projects
• Administer and comply with the project document and management control system and check revised documentation for changes

Customer / stakeholder management:

• Provide a best practice service and build sustainable relationships with key parties
• Manage nominated, domestic and labour only sub-contract agreements and negotiate the best sub-contractors for the work

Teamwork:

• Contribute to team performance and morale and bring positive energy to the team environment
• Actively pursue personal improvement in line with role requirements; participate in team coaching and training
• Display ethical conduct and contribute to an environment of trust and a cohesive winning team culture
• Communicate and share effectively; play an active role in positive team dynamics and inter-departmental collaboration
• Respect diversity and contribute to an environment that values inclusivity
• Contribute to innovative and entrepreneurial business ideas to improve processes or reduce costs