Managing Quantity Surveyor
Mushrif Trading and contracting
Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months
• Commercial support of site based management team
• Training and mentoring of Site Quantity Surveyors
• Advising site personnel with regards to documented company commercial management procedures
• Evaluation of the performance of Site based Quantity Surveyors
• Interview and recommendation for Employment of Quantity Surveyors & Contracts administrators
• Assessment and highlighting of financial project risks
• Ad hoc troubleshooting/ resolution of site commercial queries
• Commercial correspondence / Contract administration
• Reviewing site cost reports prior to cost report meeting prior to submission
• Negotiation of specific project final accounts
• Commercial support of site based management team
• Training and mentoring of Junior Site Quantity Surveyors
• Advising site personnel with regards to documented company commercial management procedures
• Evaluation of the performance of Site based Quantity Surveyors
• Assessment and highlighting of financial project risks
• Ad hoc troubleshooting/ resolution of site commercial queries
• Commercial correspondence / Contract administration
• Reviewing site cost reports prior to cost report meeting prior to submission
• Negotiation of specific project final accounts
• Supervising and mentoring of Junior Site Quantity Surveyors
• Training management with regards to the company’s commercial procedures and systems
• Contractual advice to site team specifically the Contractors Project Managers & Site Agents
• Project Commercial correspondence / Contract administration
• Generated detailed dispute resolution submissions based on the NEC3 and FIDIC1999 contracts
• Supervising/ reviewing contractual claims prior to submission
• Supervising the preparation of site cost reports for management meetings
• Reviewing/ analyzing draft site cost reports prior to cost report meeting with senior management
• Troubleshooting / the interpretation of ad hoc/ day to day commercial queries
• Formulated user friendly templates for material reconciliations and cost reporting templates
• Formulated user friendly project cash flow projection template
• Quantified the progressive and final quantities on a multi-disciplinary construction project
• Generated of monthly valuations
• Generated monthly site cost reports for presentation at head office cost meetings and investigated the reasons behind the anomalies
• Adjudication of Subcontractor’s claims for additional work.
• Formulating and agreement of Compensation Events in terms of NEC3 Contract
• Monitoring of site costs and materials reconciliation (wastage reports)
• Evaluation of monthly subcontractor valuations and preparation of payment certificates
• Quantifying and negotiating final accounts (with subcontractors and with Employer)
• Contributed to the compilation of tender submissions (preparation of new price worksheets on CCS)
• Contractual correspondence (contractual letters to subcontractors & client)
• The formulation of agreements for subcontractors
• Monitored purchases against the project allowable/ contractors budget
• Formulation and implementation of progressive compensation event and early warning tracking registers on an NEC3 contract
• Formulated the initial budget estimates during the design stages for various contract
• Helped with updating of a viability study for large luxurious housing development
• Preparation of tender documentation & attending site inspection meetings
• Tender Adjudication and advising with regards to the implications of commercial qualifications
• Preparation and issuing of Project Contract documentation for various contracts
• Presentation of tender documents to subcontract work tenderers
• Contract administration (Mainly Sappi and Mondi in-house conditions of contract)
• Negotiation/ approval of new rates / Cost comparisons
• Formulated and issued the monthly cost report/ progressive construction budget for the client
• Issuing recommendations for variation orders to the Employers budget
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts with the Main Contractor
• Providing budget information to the Employers Project Cost Engineers
• Quantification of progressive site measurements/ assessment of project progress for payment certification purposes
• Monitoring project site instructions & day works / Liaising with Engineers site representative
The Honours in Quantity Surveying degrees provide the professional specialisation to equip one to enter the working world in a more skilled position, with more of the requirements already met for the process of registration by one of the Councils (RICS/ SACQSP) as a professional quantity surveyor.
The three-year BSc Propert Development Degree provides sufficient knowledge to take up work in the property, construction and civil engineering project fields.