Chief Quantity Surveyor Construction
Chief Quantity Surveyor Construction
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Duties & Responsibilities
Job Position: Chief Quantity Surveyor (Construction)
Ref: 4991
Location: Eastern Cape
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience
Qualifications / 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
- Minimum of 2 years Managerial experience
- Willing to travel to sites
- Ability to cope with heavy workload and long hours
- IT skills:
- Advanced diary management
- Advanced Word Excel PowerPoint and Outlook
- Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
- Systems and software skills:
- BuildSmart (basic)
- Candy/CSS programming (advanced)
- Lean Programme (advanced)
- OneDrive and Bos (advanced)
- SharePoint (advanced)
Management skills:
- Change management
- Delegation
- Managing performance
- Mentoring skills
- Situational management of people
- Strategic objectives management
- Team morale and effectiveness
Personal effectiveness skills:
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Business writing advanced
- Communication skills verbal and written
- Conflict management (advanced)
- Deadlines achievement (advanced)
- Decision making
- Ethics and confidentiality
- Facilitation and presentation skills (advanced)
- Mentoring and interpersonal skills
- Planning and organisation
- Problem solving ability
Technical skills:
- Advise on legalities and common law requirements
- Capital expenditure
- Commercial law and common law
- Compilation of legal claims
- Compilation of reports
- Contracts amendments bulletins
- Contracts understanding
- Drafting of compliance notices agreements
- Facilitation of workshops
- Financial acumen
- Forward workload planning
- Leasing arrangements
- Measurement skills
- Network with arbitrators law
- Prepare legal matters and arbitration
- Risk analysis
- Subject matter expert on legislation
- Supplier and procurement laws
Key Performance Areas:
Manage the commercial profitability of projects and alignment to the financial life cycle of the business:
- Effective trade management using the applied system of measurement interpretation of drawings detection of variations and risk identification
- Effectively manage the project certification life cycle and final account
- Management of the quantity surveying function with regular spot checks on measurements reconcile budget allocations payments profit enhancement opportunities and risk mitigation
- Manage the relevant project contractual claims meet with relevant parties to minimise level of dispute and represent company in dispute resolution
- Ensure proactive and accurate cost reports to report on the alignment between budgets and allowable
- Participate in the tender team activities to negotiate and agree profitable contracts or compile bids to win new business
- Rework tender after cost award to set base cost report
Optimise contract administration and business risk:
- Understand apply and manage common and contract law principles and all duties incorporated thereby
- Identification management and settlement of contractual claims
- Seamless collaboration with production team to identify profitable synergies and management of the financial integrity of the projects
- Ensure accurate works measurements
- Implement and manage a document and management control system
Customer / Stakeholder Management:
- Ensure a clear understanding of the customer requirements and provide astute alternatives as an expert advisor where necessary
- Provide a best practice service and built sustainable relationships with key parties
- Leverage relationships with the professional team and wider network
- Negotiate draws up and manage subcontractor agreements
- Understand the duties and responsibilities of Agents and Consultants
Leadership and people management:
- Provide reportees with purpose vision and goals aligned to company strategy
- Provide clarity set objectives and manage reportees performance in accordance with assigned roles and responsibilities
- Recruit and onboard effectively and for team sustainability
- Future proof teams and performance by constantly scouting for talented staff
- Promote adaptability flexibility and acceptance of change in the companys culture of continuous improvement
- Promote solutions thinking innovation and creativity
- Ensure ethical conduct and a sense of community
- Promote information sharing guidance and interdepartmental collaboration
- Equip reportees with tools resources and mentoring to perform to the highest level possible
- Identify talent and drive individual development plans to ensure future bench strength in department and company
- Create an environment of trust high morale and a cohesive winning team culture
Desired Experience & Qualification
Qualifications / 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
- Minimum of 2 years Managerial experience
- Willing to travel to sites
- Ability to cope with heavy workload and long hours
- IT skills:
- Advanced diary management
- Advanced Word Excel PowerPoint and Outlook
- Navigating on virtual meeting platforms
- Systems and software skills:
- BuildSmart (basic)
- Candy/CSS programming (advanced)
- Lean Programme (advanced)
- OneDrive and Bos (advanced)
- SharePoint (advanced)
Management skills:
- Change management
- Delegation
- Managing performance
- Mentoring skills
- Situational management of people
- Strategic objectives management
- Team morale and effectiveness
Personal effectiveness skills:
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Business writing advanced
- Communication skills verbal and written
- Conflict management (advanced)
- Deadlines achievement (advanced)
- Decision making
- Ethics and confidentiality
- Facilitation and presentation skills (advanced)
- Mentoring and interpersonal skills
- Planning and organisation
- Problem solving ability
Technical skills:
- Advise on legalities and common law requirements
- Capital expenditure
- Commercial law and common law
- Compilation of legal claims
- Compilation of reports
- Contracts amendments bulletins
- Contracts understanding
- Drafting of compliance notices agreements
- Facilitation of workshops
- Financial acumen
- Forward workload planning
- Leasing arrangements
- Measurement skills
- Network with arbitrators law
- Prepare legal matters and arbitration
- Risk analysis
- Subject matter expert on legislation
- Supplier and procurement laws
Key Performance Areas:
Manage the commercial profitability of projects and alignment to the financial life cycle of the business:
- Effective trade management using the applied system of measurement interpretation of drawings detection of variations and risk identification
- Effectively manage the project certification life cycle and final account
- Management of the quantity surveying function with regular spot checks on measurements reconcile budget allocations payments profit enhancement opportunities and risk mitigation
- Manage the relevant project contractual claims meet with relevant parties to minimise level of dispute and represent company in dispute resolution
- Ensure proactive and accurate cost reports to report on the alignment between budgets and allowable
- Participate in the tender team activities to negotiate and agree profitable contracts or compile bids to win new business
- Rework tender after cost award to set base cost report
Optimise contract administration and business risk:
- Understand apply and manage common and contract law principles and all duties incorporated thereby
- Identification management and settlement of contractual claims
- Seamless collaboration with production team to identify profitable synergies and management of the financial integrity of the projects
- Ensure accurate works measurements
- Implement and manage a document and management control system
Customer / Stakeholder Management:
- Ensure a clear understanding of the customer requirements and provide astute alternatives as an expert advisor where necessary
- Provide a best practice service and built sustainable relationships with key parties
- Leverage relationships with the professional team and wider network
- Negotiate draws up and manage subcontractor agreements
- Understand the duties and responsibilities of Agents and Consultants
Leadership and people management:
- Provide reportees with purpose vision and goals aligned to company strategy
- Provide clarity set objectives and manage reportees performance in accordance with assigned roles and responsibilities
- Recruit and onboard effectively and for team sustainability
- Future proof teams and performance by constantly scouting for talented staff
- Promote adaptability flexibility and acceptance of change in the companys culture of continuous improvement
- Promote solutions thinking innovation and creativity
- Ensure ethical conduct and a sense of community
- Promote information sharing guidance and interdepartmental collaboration
- Equip reportees with tools resources and mentoring to perform to the highest level possible
- Identify talent and drive individual development plans to ensure future bench strength in department and company
- Create an environment of trust high morale and a cohesive winning team culture
Package & Remuneration
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience
Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
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