Senior Quantity Surveyor

Key Accountabilities / Principal Responsibilities

Development Management

1. Establish the need and desirability of undertaking a property development project
2. Develop initial business case, budget, programme, vision, feasibility programme and project master plan
3. Assist with securing the land rights, zoning, infrastructure services and necessary statutory requirements
4. Identify funding sources and requirements and facilitate the obtaining of approved project finance
5. Determine, monitor and manage project cashflow requirements
6. Research and develop marketing, income and operations strategies
7. Formalise and develop project brief, viability parameters, end user requirements
8. Appointment of other consultants and implementation of surveys, studies, tests and investigations
9. Establish, monitor and manage reporting protocols, formats and timing
10. Develop and incorporate end user and facilities management requirements into the overall time, cost and quality decisions
11. Monitor and manage the achievement of the financial feasibility of the project
12. Incorporate client requirements into tenders and contracts
13. Ensure that contracts and SLAs are signed and managed correctly and efficiently
14. Management of agreements and facilitation of payments or fees and duly certified payment certificates.
15. Review and approve variations and project changes
16. Fulfil and complete the project close out and handover process to an agreed timeline
17. Receive and approve all final project documentation, manuals and guarantees
18. Ensure settlement of final accounts

Project Management

1. Establish the client requirements and preferences
2. Determine user needs, project objectives
3. Define constraints, assumptions, aspirations and strategies
4. Set project brief
5. Conduct and minute regular project and steering committee meetings
6. Determine key project milestones and develop the master project programme around key deliverables
7. Advise on and facilitate the appointment of consultants
8. Set up the requisite project systems, structures and controls
9. Prepare project concept, scope & scale and facilitate the development of the concept from inception through to completion
10. Institute a formal system of checks and balances and client approval process
11. Facilitate statutory approvals process and ensure that the necessary permissions and approvals are in place timeously
12. Set and manage the development of detailed project budgets in accordance with the project viability parameters
13. Manage the procurement and tendering process and ensure that the clients procurement parameters are in place
14. Set up and facilitate the conclusion of SLAs and appropriate contracts
15. Contract management
16. Management for payment processes and procedures
17. Robust change control management
18. On-going risk identification, management and avoidance procedures
19. Closing out final accounts
20. Facilitate the close out of the project and handover of O&M Manuals and completions certificates

Quantity Surveying

1. Define client briefs
2. Develop and agree scope of work
3. Set and manage project budgets
4. Development of project budgets and estimates and implement cost control procedures
5. Procurement and tendering strategy and implementation
6. Value management and value engineering
7. Cost reporting
8. Change control and cost management
9. Monthly valuations and payments
10. Closing out final accounts and agree settlement

Financial

1. Timely issue of monthly invoices
2. Reduction of Accounts Receivable (AR) time
3. Collection of fees
4. Forecast income and expenditure plan
5. Run division profitably

Human Resources

1. Manage employees
2. Resource division appropriately
3. Mentor and guide staff
4. Create a career path
5. Provide a quality service to specification
6. Development of staff through to professional accreditation

Customer Relations

1. Customer satisfaction
2. Provide a quality service to specification
3. Extract and develop internal leads

Operations

1. Ensure compliance with policies and procedures
2. Manage risk and exposure to the business
3. ISO 9001 compliant in line with

Health & Safety

1. Ensure Health and Safety policy and procedures are adhered

Growth and Business Development

1. See to it that the business grows
2. Retain existing clients
3. Develop new clients
4. Develop marketing strategy and suitable material
5. Submission of tenders
6. Cross sell to other areas of the business

General

1. Conclude fee negotiations
2. Agree acceptable milestones for service delivery
3. Set parameters and scope of service
4. Determine and agree fee cashflow
5. Set up and resource projects, including equipment, staff and office space
6. Determine profitability of undertaking the project
7. Conclude appropriate SLAs and appointments
8. Quality control procedures (internal & external)
9. Project structure, organogram and lines of reporting
10. Levels of authority and sign off procedures
11. Contract and SLA management
12. Variations to scope of work & change control pertaining to appointments
13. Look for opportunities to expand appointment
14. Succession planning

Key Skills and Experience

1. Grade 12
2. Tertiary qualification
3. Professionally registered Quantity Surveyor (PrQS)
4. Must be PrQS registered with minimum +10 years post registration experience
5. New build large scale commercial / retail
6. Project Management
7. MRICS will be beneficial
8. Strong professional services delivery background
9. Public & private sector experience
10. New build, commercial, residential, mixed use and/or retail
11. Principal agent experience (beneficial)
12. Experience in staff management
13. Highly proficient in Word, Excel and WinQS
14. International experience & MRICS will be beneficial
15. Valid Driver’s licence
16. Own vehicle
17. Willing to conduct out of town travel which may be required to attend to project responsibilities

People and Management Skill

1. Strong management and leadership skills
2. Ability to foster an effective productive team environment
3. Ability to maintain goodwill with clients
4. Ability to work quickly and accurately on an independent basis, with attention to detail and able to display the initiative to quickly identify and resolve variances, failures and discrepancies
5. Excellent communication skills in written and oral format
6. Good people skills in being able to deal with a range of people, directors, and non-operational staff
7. Good planning and organizing skills
8. Skilled in conflict resolution

Key Result Areas

1. Manage and oversee the strategic and operational areas within the business
2. Advise on vendor contracts
3. Provide assistance in business decision making
4. Manage and oversee budgets
5. Growth and delivery of the professional services division

Additional Responsibilities and Skills

1. Have the ability to take on additional responsibilities
2. Incorporate the current and additional clients into existing processes and make effective decisions at strategic, technical and operational levels as and when that may be required

Interested? Submit your CV now

As a proudly South African brand, Afroteq Advisory (Pty) Ltd will consider our commitment to transformation and employment equity goals for this position

For information on Afroteq and AFMS Group, including more information on our company culture, visit our websites at www.afroteq.co.za and www.afmsgroup.co.za

Please note, relocation costs will not apply

If you don’t hear from us in 14 days, consider your application unsuccessful

Applications to be addressed to: Matthew Toontjies [email protected]

Closing Date for applications: Monday, 04 November 2024, by 16h00