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Quantity Surveyor [Midrand]
POSTED BY: Development Bank of Southern Africa
REF:DBSA 2056
Date Published:Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Date of Expiration:Sunday, May 4, 2025
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| LOCATION OF THIS JOB |
 South Africa | MIDRAND in South Africa |
| INDUSTRY |
| DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS
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| JOB TYPE |
| Full-Time |
| MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION |
Closing Date 2024/11/19
Reference Number DBS241031-1
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
1. The Quantity Surveyor is responsible for managing and forecasting all costs associated with infrastructure projects, from planning through to completion, ensuring cost efficiency and value for money while maintaining quality and regulatory standards.
2. The role involves monitoring project finances, adhering to statutory building regulations, and delivering professional Quantity Surveying services that meet the needs of the Infrastructure Delivery Division.
3. Additionally, the Quantity Surveyor provides expert guidance and inputs for the development of infrastructure strategies, policies, systems, and technical standards.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Quantity Surveyance and Quality Assurance
1. Calculate and verify project costs to enhance value and cost efficiency for infrastructure projects in line with regulatory standards and quality.
2. Estimate and monitor all costs that relate to the infrastructure project from the planning stage until the final stage when all actual costs are levied.
3. Verify the accuracy of deriving costs for project ancillaries, labour and material for each item or activity, especially for large volume, high value or high-risk services and works.
4. Advise contract custodians on bill of quantities and activity schedule composition for large volume, high value or high-risk services and works.
5. Monitor execution and update of processes for site audits, where required, to verify quantities and claims for work executed.
6. Monitor and maintain adherence to local statutory building regulations and the applicable built environment standards and regulations.
7. Provide surveying inputs and guidance for the development of infrastructure strategies, policies systems, functional/technical norms and standards.
8. Provide a professional quantity surveying service and continuous quality assurance to meet the needs of the Infrastructure Delivery division.
9. Vet bills of quantities and variation orders as received before payment and approve payments to contractors.
10. Advise on standards, practices and governance relevant to contractual documentation.
11. Prepare and conduct financial close-out and review project/programme close-out costs.
12. Compile and present special reports when required.
13. Prepare quantity surveyance inputs for the preparation of the User Asset Management Plan, the final project lists, the budgets and the infrastructure Programme Management Plan.
Continuous Improvement of Estimating Services and Cost Engineering
1. Conduct research and keep abreast of new technologies and procedures including interaction with professional Councils/ Boards.
2. Liaise with external quantity surveying firms and the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors regarding documentation, benchmarking rates and alternative procedures to ensure improvements and cost savings.
3. Contribute to Master Planning, Project Briefing documents, accommodation schedules and operational narratives.
4. Optimise standard guides, methods and techniques to evaluate the utilisation of available resources.
5. Evaluate and identify new initiatives or enhanced/ improved products for inclusion in programmes or projects.
6. Formulate standards and improved bills of quantities and activity schedules for large volume, high value or high-risk services and works.
7. Identify all risks and devise risk mitigation strategies.
8. Provide support in conducting internal audits for assurance that standards and ensuring that procedures are being applied.
Key Measurements of Outputs
1. Accurate project costing and quality assurance
2. Adherence to applicable regulations and built environment protocols
3. Accurate approval of bills of quantities and variation orders
4. Clean audit
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| REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS JOB |
EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Minimum Requirements
1. Bachelor’s degree or a B-Tech in Quantity Surveying. 2. Registration with the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession (SACQSP).
2. A minimum of 8 years’ experience with quantity surveying in engineering and construction contracts, preferably in the public sector.
3. Experience in estimating and cost engineering of construction services and implementing cost control measures in projects.
4. Knowledge and understanding of Quantity Surveying Professions Act of 2000, National Building Standards Act. of 1977 and Regulations, Construction Industry Development Board Act of 2000 and Regulations, Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993.
5. Understand how to apply the Provincial Infrastructure Delivery Management System (PIDP) and the IDM Toolkit.
6. Understand how to prepare budgets, extract and interpret information from related information systems.
7. Understand the service delivery platform, indicators and service plan and how that links with Infrastructure.
8. Understand how to undertake a risk analysis and undertake a risk mitigation strategy.
9. Understand how to interpret existing and develop new Functional- and Technical Norms and Standards.
10. Ability to process and analyse new and complex information quickly and to prioritise issues for consideration.
11. Ability to build strategic alliances with key players for business.
12. Capacity to clarify needs of others and work with them to develop and implement cost-effective and practical solutions.
13. Demonstrated experience in successfully managing projects within tight schedules.
Desirable Requirements
1. Postgraduate qualification in Quantity Surveying.
2. Qualifications in health and safety.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Project Management
1. Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications.
2. Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
3. Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
4. Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions.
Detailed Oriented
1. Quickly identifies relevant and irrelevant information to support accurate decision making.
2. Maps out all the logistics and details of a situation to ensure smooth and flawless implementation.
3. Consistently identifies all relevant details that are not obvious in complex situations.
4. Requires the highest standards for accuracy and quality for their work.
5. Establishes processes to ensure accuracy and quality of services delivered by the team.
Planning & Organizing
1. Coaches’ others on advanced planning and organising skills.
2. Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others.
3. Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
4. Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties. Develops integrated plans for the work unit and others that interfaces with the function’s budget.
Reporting & Communication
1. Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
2. Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
3. Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
4. Can determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others to achieve organisational goals.
5. Coaches’ others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
6. Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
7. Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
8. Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.
Presentation Skills
1. Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
2. Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
Written communication
1. Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
2. Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
3. Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
4. Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.
Verbal communication
1. Able to present a theme in writing in an ordered, intelligible manner with well-structured and relevant supporting detail.
2. Able to understand topic switches and use vocabulary of attitude.
3. Reasonably fluent in speaking.
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Teamwork & Cooperation
1. Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
2. Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
3. Encourages others to network outside of their team/department and learn from their experience.
Driving delivery of results
1. Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image). Monitors progress and adapts the plan, if necessary, to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
2. Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost-benefit analysis.
3. Based on the cost-benefit analysis, makes decisions of an entrepreneurial risk nature.
Achievement orientation
1. Undertakes challenging assignments and strives to complete them.
2. Sets priorities and chooses goals based on calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
3. Aim at exceptional performance, setting out to achieve a unique standard.
4. Constantly analyse outcomes to ensure the achievement of business goals.
5. Identifies short-term opportunities or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.
Customer Orientation
1. Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and match these needs to available or customized products and services.
2. Adapt processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
3. Utilises the feedback received from customers, in order to develop new and / or improving existing services / products that relates to their on-going needs.
4. Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offering with future customer needs.
Integrity
1. Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practice.
2. Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values.
Self-awareness & self-control
1. Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
2. Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
3. May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress
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