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This role will be for a Senior Quantity Surveyor for our Natural Resources division in the mining infrastructure sector. This will be to support the global T&T business and the role is based in Conakry, Guinea.

Job Objectives:

• Estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle.
• Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor, in the development of the cost estimates.
• Reconcile changes and assist the Owner’s Team to ensure that their data is accurate.
• Communicate or meet with Contractors and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
• Prepare written comments to the general Contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary.
• Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions in order to evaluate cost changes
• Inform and drive engineering priorities based on cost impact.
• Work proactively with no supervision to resolve scheduling issues.
• Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects. Complete timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
• Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes.
• Manage Cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking logs.
• Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate value engineering sessions with stakeholders.

Pre-Contract

• Developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
• Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
• Reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.

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

EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• Qualified to professional standard in Quantity Surveying with membership of an appropriate professional body and/or educated to degree level.
• Relevant successful experience of provision of estimating and/or QS services in a mining / engineering environment to high profile or complex major projects or programmes.
• Knowledge of project management, planning, risk, and investment processes.                        
• A strong technical cost management or estimating competency is crucial.
• Must have knowledge in the use and benefits of cost management systems.

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience in managing and leading large teams and successful setting and implementation of business strategy
• Mandatory degree in quantity surveying or associated construction field.

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