Senior Quantity Surveyor (Construction) – Port Elizabeth.
Requirements:
Qualifications / certifications required:
- Tertiary Degree
- Professional registration: ASAQS/MBA and South African Council for the Quantity Surveying profession
- Minimum of 10 years technical experience, with at least 2 years in a senior role
- Willing to travel to sites
- Ability to cope with heavy workload and long hours
Technical skills:
- Advanced proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Experience with virtual meeting platforms
Systems and software skills:
- BuildSmart (basic)
- Candy/CSS programming (advanced)
- Lean Programme (advanced)
- OneDrive and Bos (advanced)
- SharePoint (advanced)
Additional technical skills:
- Legal advisement and understanding of common law requirements
- Capital expenditure management
- Knowledge of commercial law and common law
- Preparation of legal claims and reports
- Contract amendments and bulletins
- Understanding of contracts
- Drafting compliance notices and agreements
- Workshop facilitation
- Financial acumen
- Workload planning
- Leasing arrangements
- Measurement skills
- Networking with arbitrators and legal professionals
- Preparation for legal matters and arbitration
- Risk analysis
- Legislation expertise
- Knowledge of supplier and procurement laws
Key Performance Areas:
Manage the commercial profitability of projects and ensure alignment with the financial lifecycle of the business:
- Interpretation of drawings and detection of variations
- Execution of project certification lifecycle and final account
- Implementation of cost control principles, including site storage control, asset registers, and reconciliations
- Management of contractual claims with sufficient evidence
- Preparation of accurate cost reports aligning budgets and expenditures
- Compliance with construction, HSE, labour, and environmental legislation
- Collaboration with production teams to identify profitable opportunities and maintain financial integrity
- Implementation of document and project management systems
- Building sustainable relationships with key stakeholders and providing excellent service