Senior Advisor Quantity Surveyor x4
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Provide cost advice and planning support.
- Provide advisory support regarding contract documentation.
- Provide advisory support regarding tendering and contractual arrangements.
- Provide advisory support regarding contract services.
- Mentor and coach quantity surveying employees.
- Comply with relevant Eskom and site governance, safety, health, environment, risk and quality (SHERQ) requirements.
Skills and Competencies Required
Behavioural:
- Dealing with complexity
- Resilience and flexibility
- Integrity and values
- Professionalism
- Trustworthiness
Leadership:
- Achievement oriented
- Business acumen
- Coaching and mentoring
- Teamwork
- Working with authority
- Strategic thinking
- Providing direction through change
Knowledge:
- New Engineering Contracts (NEC) documentation
- Civil and electrical engineering in an engineering industry
- Eskom processes
- Contract price adjustment (CPA) calculation and principles
- Quantity surveying
- Contracts management
- Earned value management (EVM)
- Planning and scheduling
- Project management
- Cost engineering
- Construction management
Skills:
- Computer literate Microsoft (MS) package and WinQS
- Analytical
- Problem solving
- Collaboration
- Negotiation, persuasiveness
- Planning and organising
- Developing organisational talent
- Judgement and decision making
- Communication and engagement
- Influencing and persuading
Minimum requirements
Qualification(s):
- Honours Degree/BSc Degree in Quantity Surveying at NQF8 with 480 credits
Experience:
- 4 years Quantity surveying, contracts management, cost management in the built environment
Professional Registration Body:
- South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession (SACQSP) as a professional quantity surveyor (PrQS).
Disclaimer:
“If you have not been contacted within 28 days after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.”
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