Project Quantity Surveyor

Responsibilities:

Cost Architecture: Prepare, update, and manage comprehensive Bills of Quantities (BOQs), cost estimates, and budget projections for all civil, mechanical, and electrical project scopes.

Contractual Administration: Formulate, vet, and manage contracts for contractors, subcontractors, and consultants, ensuring clear commercial terms and risk mitigation.

Valuation & Certifications: Conduct periodic site measurements and progress audits to verify, negotiate, and certify interim payment applications from contractors.

Variation & Claim Management: Analyze, negotiate, and defend against contract variations and claims, protecting GZI from budget overruns.

Financial Tracking: Maintain a live project cost ledger, providing executive management with accurate Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and cash-flow forecasts.

Site Measurement & Audits: Conduct regular site visits to validate progress, verify quantities, and ensure compliance with contractual requirements.

Change Control Management: Administer all scope changes and ensure proper valuation, approval, and documentation of variations.

Lifecycle Cost Awareness: Advise on long-term cost implications of design choices, materials, and construction methods.

Integrated Management System: Documents, implements, maintains the requirements of the quality, food safety, environment, health, and safety management systems.

Requirements:

A minimum of HND in Quantity Surveying.

Professional membership in NIQS and registration with QSRBN is required.

Minimum of 8 years of commercial cost-management experience on major industrial, heavy engineering, or fast-track commercial construction projects.

Analytically sharp attention to contract details, skilled at managing vendor negotiations firmly and ethically.

Key KPIs:

Project Budget Variance (Maintain absolute cost delivery within ±5% of the approved baseline).

Turnaround Time for Verification and Certification of Interim Payment Applications.

Value Engineering Savings Generated through material/design optimisations.

Competencies Profile:

Industrial Standard of Measurement Mastery (POMI, BESMM) Systemic Critical Thinking.

Contract Construction Law (FIDIC framework expertise) Team Management

Earned Value Management (EVM) methodology Strategic & Analytical Thinking

Software Exposure: Candy (CCS), WinQS, PlanSwift, and SAP PS/MM modules Communication

Cost Planning & Financial Forecasting Stakeholder Engagement

Variation Assessment & Change Control

Management Accountability

Project Cost Reporting & Cashflow Management Negotiation & In Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Business Knowledge

Detail Orientation

Time Management

Innovation & Process Improvement

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