Senior Quantity Surveyor

Key Accountabilities / Principal Responsibilities

Development Management

Establish the need and desirability of undertaking a property development project

Develop initial business case, budget, programme, vision, feasibility programme and project master plan.

Assist with securing the land rights, zoning, infrastructure services and necessary statutory requirements

Identify funding sources and requirements and facilitate the obtaining of approved project finance

Determine, monitor and manage project cashflow requirements

Research and develop marketing, income and operations strategies

Formalise and develop project brief, viability parameters, end user requirements

Appointment of other consultants and implementation of surveys, studies, tests and investigations

Establish, monitor and manage reporting protocols, formats and timing

Develop and incorporate end user and facilities management requirements in to the overall time, cost and quality decisions.

Monitor and manage the achievement of the financial feasibility of the project

Incorporate client requirements into tenders and contracts

Ensure that contracts and SLAs are signed and managed correctly and efficiently

Management of agreements and facilitation of payments or fees and duly certified payment certificates.

Review and approve variations and project changes

Fulfil and complete the project close out and handover process to an agreed timeline

Receive and approve all final project documentation, manuals and guarantees

Ensure settlement of final accounts

Project Management

Establish the client requirements and preferences

Determine user needs, project objectives

Define constraints, assumptions, aspirations and strategies

Set project brief

Conduct and minute regular project and steering committee meetings Determine key project milestones and develop the master project programme around key deliverables

Advise on and facilitate the appointment of consultants

Set up the requisite project systems, structures and controls

Prepare project concept, scope & scale and facilitate the development of the concept from inception through to completion

Institute a formal system of checks and balances and client approval process

Facilitate statutory approvals process and ensure that the necessary permissions and approvals are in place timeously

Set and manage the development of detailed project budgets in accordance with the project viability parameters

Manage the procurement and tendering process and ensure that the clients procurement parameters are in place

Set up and facilitate the conclusion of SLAs and appropriate contracts

Contract management

Management for payment processes and procedures

Robust change control management

On-going risk identification, management and avoidance procedures

Closing out final accounts

Facilitate the close out of the project and handover of O&M Manuals and completions certificates

Quantity surveying

Define client briefs

Develop and agree scope of work

Set and manage project budgets

Development of project budgets and estimates and implement cost control procedures

Procurement and tendering strategy and implementation

Value management and value engineering

Cost reporting

Change control and cost management

Monthly valuations and payments

Closing out final accounts and agree settlement

Financial

Timely issue of monthly invoices

Reduction of Accounts Receivable (AR) time

Collection of fees

Forecast income and expenditure plan

Run division profitably

Human Resources

Manage employees

Resource division appropriately

Mentor and guide staff

Create a career path

Provide a quality service to specification

Development of staff through to professional accreditation

Customer Relations

Customer satisfaction

Provide a quality service to specification

Extract and develop internal leads

Operations

Ensure compliance with policies and procedures

Manage risk and exposure to the business

ISO 9001 compliant in line with

Health & Safety

Ensure Health and Safety policy and procedures are adhered

Growth and Business development

See to it that the business grows

Retain existing clients

Develop new clients

Develop marketing strategy and suitable material

Submission of tenders

Cross sell to other areas of the business

General

Conclude fee negotiations

Agree acceptable milestones for service delivery

Set parameters and scope of service

Determine and agree fee cashflow

Set up and resource projects, including equipment, staff and office space

Determine profitability of undertaking the project

Conclude appropriate SLAs and appointments

Quality control procedures (internal & external)

Project structure, organogram and lines of reporting

Levels of authority and sign off procedures

Contract and SLA management

Variations to scope of work & change control pertaining to appointments

Look for opportunities to expand appointment

Succession planning

Key Skills and Experience

Grade 12

Tertiary qualification

Professionally registered Quantity Surveyor (PrQS)

Must be PrQS registered with minimum +10 years post registration experience

New build large scale commercial / retail

Project Management

MRICS will be beneficial

Strong professional services delivery background

Public & private sector experience

New build, commercial, residential, mixed use and / or retail

Principal agent experience (beneficial)

Experience in staff management

Highly proficient in Word, Excel and WinQS

International experience & MRICS will be beneficial

Valid Drivers licence

Own vehicle

Willing to conduct out of town travel which may be required to attend to project responsibilities

People and Management Skill

Strong management and leadership skills.

Ability to foster an effective productive team environment

Ability to maintain goodwill with clients

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

Excellent communication skills in written and oral format

Good people skills in being able to deal with a range of people, directors, and non-operational staff.

Good planning and organizing skills.

Skilled in conflict resolution

Key result areas

Manage and oversee the strategic and operational areas within the business

Advise on vendor contracts.

Provide assistance in business decision making.

Manage and oversee budgets.

Growth and delivery of the professional services division

Additional Responsibilities and Skills

Have the ability to take on additional responsibilities. 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.

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