Senior Quantity Surveyor

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend, we are passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. With more than 6,000 professionals in 112 offices across 45 offices, we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, providing the skills and insight to improve the way they develop, deliver and operate their physical real estate assets.

Across private and public sectors, our talented professionals provide the most innovative solutions for our clients’ greatest challenges. Our clients value our proactive and client-centric approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality of the work we deliver. As a result, our employees get to work for the top global brands on some of the most exciting projects around the world.

This role will be for a Senior QS for our Infrastructure division, based in Cape Town.

Job Description

• Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
• Preparation of feasibility studies.
• Proactively provide Quality control and assurance on documentation.
• Extensive experience in cost management, budgeting, contract administration to ensure financial success of a project.
• Provide estimate and cost planning for budgeting purposes.
• Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor, in the development of the cost estimates and project budgets.
• Communicate or meet with client during the life cycle of the project.
• Prepare written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary.
• Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es.
• Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact.
• Work proactively with minimal supervision to resolve costing and variation issues.
• Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on large and small projects. Complete timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
• Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.
• Manage Cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs.
• Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate VE sessions with stakeholders.
• Prepare and present confidently reports to stakeholders.
• Prepare and oversee the preparation of tender documentation including BOQ’s, Data, returnable’s etc. to present to the client and issue to the market for both large and small scale projects.
• Mentoring of staff.

You will also be responsible for:

Pre-Contract

• Developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
• Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
• Reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.
• Preparation of project cost estimates and tender documentation for clients.
• Performing quality assurance and control on all aspects of Quantity surveying.

Post-Contract

• Performing quantity surveying, cost controls and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
• Ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place.
• Carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client.
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed in a timely manner.
• Compiling as built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified as a professional Quantity Surveyor with membership of an appropriate professional body. SACQSP preferable with 10 or more years experience.
• Relevant successful experience of provision of estimating and/or QS services in a real estate environment to high profile or complex major projects or programmes.
• Knowledge of project management, planning, risk, and investment processes.
• A strong technical cost management and estimating competency is essential.
• Must have knowledge in the use and benefits of cost management systems.
• Good presentation and personal engagement with stakeholders.

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience in managing and leading large teams and successful setting and implementation of business strategy.
• Preferred degree in quantity surveying or associated construction field.