Job Description
Main Purpose:
To taking responsibility for effectively delivering a range of tasks to high quality standards.
Key Responsibility
- Conducting background research, data collection and benchmarking
- Estimating and producing cost plans
- Compiling and amending the tender list
- Drafting the procurement documentation
- Checking and analysing the tenders
- Drafting tender reports
- Dealing with variations and the change control processes, negotiating less financially significant or complex matters.
- Conducting cost checks and valuations
- Drafting monthly reports
- Analyzing the numbers for the final accounts.
- Liaising with the client, contractors, designers, etc
Post-Contract
- Performing quantity surveying, cost controls and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
- Ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place.
- Carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client.
- Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed in a timely manner.
- Compiling as built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes.
Qualifications
Civil & MEP (Electrical & Mechanical) degree qualification, knowledge of AutoCad Must and Cost x is preferable but not mandatory.
Additional Information
- People management experience, particularly in the context of managing a cost management team delivering multiple commission in parallel.
- Candidates with prior experience of supporting their overseas offices in their respective organisation or worked in India markets.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, with demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills, and the capability to relate and communicate with people from a variety of diverse backgrounds at all levels of the industry.
- Should have relevant experience of working preferably for a construction consultancy in India/abroad, hold a graduate degree preferably in Cost Management and possesses good technical and communication skills.
- Experience in multiple sub sectors within the property projects will be added advantage.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.