Senior Construction Cost Estimator

3 weeks ago


Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Career Recruit Full time
Job Title: Professional Quantity SurveyorAbout the Role:

Career Recruit is seeking an experienced Professional Quantity Surveyor to join our team in a dynamic and challenging role. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality quantity surveying services to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage project costs on a wide variety of new and existing building projects, including residential developments, sports stadiums, roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, offices, factories, and commercial properties.
  • Undertake cost analysis for repair and maintenance project work.
  • Maintain awareness of different building contracts in current use.
  • Understand the implications of health and safety regulations.
  • Assist in establishing client requirements and undertaking feasibility studies.
  • Perform risk and value management, cost control, and value engineering.
  • Advise on procurement strategy, contract documentation, and financial control.
  • Prepare tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities, returnable schedules, and Preliminaries & General.
  • Identify, analyze, and develop responses to commercial risks.
  • Prepare and analyze costing for tenders, tender evaluation, tender adjudication, and appointment of contractors and/or sub-contractors.
  • Provide advice on contractual claims, variation orders, site instructions, and escalation.
  • Analyze outcomes and write detailed inception-, progress-, preliminary design-, and final design reports.
  • Value completed work and arrange payments.
  • Assist the Bids Department with calculating professional fees and write-ups to be used for tender purposes for future QS work.
  • Calculate escalation, penalties, monthly payment valuations, and the reconciliation of the final account and close-out report.
  • Prepare monthly cost reports/financial reports on projects, including project cash flows.
Requirements:
  • Experience in Government Contracts and knowledge of PFMA, JBCC, NEC, FIDIC, GCC, and COLTO Conditions of Contracts.
  • Experience in schools, clinics, hospitals, renovation, and upgrade projects, transport taxi ranks, libraries, shopping centers, office blocks, and housing developments.
  • Projects costs between R50mil and R1Bil.
  • Minimum 2+ years - Post Professional Registration.
  • BSc Quantity Surveying or BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying.
  • Professionally Registered with the Council of South African Quantity Surveyors.
Skills:
  • A working knowledge of typical construction contracts (JBCC, FIDIC, NEC, GCC).
  • MS Office literacy.
  • Thorough understanding of the project life cycle.
  • Good understanding of building construction projects.
  • Good communication and analytical skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects.
  • Ability to lead a team.
  • Able to conduct themselves in a professional manner when dealing with clients and other stakeholders.
  • WinQS proficient.
  • DimensionX proficient.
Our Client:

Career Recruit is a leading recruitment agency specializing in the placement of Quantity Surveyors and construction professionals.

We pride ourselves on our ability to provide high-quality candidates who meet the exact needs of our clients.



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