Quantity Surveyor

JOB DESCRIPTION

Designation/Band : Quantity Surveyor /AM5

Team/Department : Contracts & Tendering

Location : Pune, Maharashtra

Reporting to : Director-Projects.

PURPOSE

To manage all activities associated with the Tendering, Budgeting managing and controlling construction costs and contracts

includes,

1. Assist in establishing clients requirements and undertake feasibility studies to ensure their proposals will work.

2. Prepare and analyze the cost of tender.

3. Analyzing terms and conditions of the contract.

4. Predicting potential risks in the project and taking precautions to mitigate such.

5. Forecasting the costs of different resources needed for the project.

6. Prepare tender documents, contracts, budgets and other documentation.

7. Tender management including preparation of bills of quantities, contract conditions and assembly of tender

documents.

8. Contract management and contractual advice.

9. Valuation of construction work.

10. Claims and Dispute management.

11. Life Cycle Cost analysis.

12. Value Engineering.

13. Timely payment to subcontractors, vendors, suppliers etc.

14. Preparing reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment, and other documents.

15. Documenting any changes in design and updating budgets.

16. Traveling from the office to various sites as and when required.

GOALS

The quantity surveyor will be tasked with analyzing existing budgets and making improvements, reviewing plans and preparing quantity estimates, negotiating with various contractors and vendors, as well as building relationships with clients and site managers

SKILLS NEEDED

1. Critical Thinking -- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions,

conclusions or approaches to problems.

2. Coordination -- Adjusting actions in relation to others actions.

3. Instructing -- Teaching others how to do something.

4. Active Listening -- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

5. Writing -- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of contractual & non contractual

correspondence.

6. Speaking -- Talking to others to convey information effectively.

7. Negotiation -- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.

8. Troubleshooting -- Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

9. Time Management -- Managing one's own time and the time of others.

10. Monitoring -- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, project progress, costs or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

ABILITIES NEEDED

1. Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

2. Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

3. Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

4. Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

5. Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

6. Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

7. Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

8. Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

9. Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

10. Visualization - The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

11. Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION REQUIRED

1. Building and Construction -- Knowledge of tendering, estimation and contracts involved in the construction of

industrial projects including the fit outs in various industrial sectors.

2. Education- Civil Engineer with min. 3-5 years of experience.

3. Administration and Management -- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

4. Customer and Personal Service -- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.

This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer

satisfaction.