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:

• Acknowledgement I understand the terms of reference for this position and accept the performance measures.
• Technical Competencies Generic Competencies
• 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