Chief Quantity Surveyor (Construction)

Chief 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
• 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
• 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