Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Objectives/Job Summary:

As a Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor, he/she is expected to forecast total capital requirements and monitor expenditure during construction. Performs quantity take-off and handles progress claims, variation orders, 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 quotations.

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Ability to source for suppliers and sub-contractors' quotations.
• Tabulation of price comparisons and costing summary.
• Provide central quantity surveying service.
• Preparation of interim valuations, pricing, and agreement of contract variations.
• Regular and up-to-date claim submissions and follow-up.
• Assist in monthly cost and value reports.
• Quantity take-off.
• Preparing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities with the architect and/or the client.
• Undertaking cost 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.
• Preferably at least 2 to 3 years of relevant working experience in construction.
• Resourceful and maintain good relationships with clients and sub-contractors.
• Meticulous, independent, highly motivated, and results-oriented.
• A good team player and able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.