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Date Posted: Friday, October 25, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Company Description
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.
Job Description
Due to our client constructing three 200-bed District Hospitals under a $300 million contract for the Ministry of Health, Zambia we are actively recruiting for Quantity Surveyors / Senor Quantity Surveyors.. .

  Job Responsibilities:
• Preparation and review of first principles construction cost estimates to ensure demonstrable value for money
• Benchmarking of the cost estimate and indirect costs against comparable projects within Turner & Townsend’s extensive cost database
• Assess and separate all abnormal costs that ‘skew’ the value for money equation
• Verify the scope of works against the items and quantities in the cost estimate, identifying and quantifying any gaps. This includes verifying that constructability issues are included in the estimate, and the estimate is aligned to relevant work breakdown structures
• Understand the project drivers for cost and schedule, and determine whether the appropriate estimating and planning effort and accuracy has been applied
• Review project drivers most likely to influence the cost and schedule outcome of the project
• Verify the unit rates for labour, plant equipment and materials to capture whether appropriate pricing has been applied, taking into account local market conditions, geographical locations, cost of local labour and the proposed procurement strategy
• Verify estimated labour norms and productivity in relation to the scope of works
• Assess the location, nature of the site access and working conditions with regards to productivity.
• Determine whether appropriate allowances have been adopted, particularly at the early phases of the project
• Verify appropriate cost escalation adopted by applying Turner & Townsend’s industry forecasts against the project schedule
• Assess whether contingency allowances are proportional to the risk remaining on the project and identify mitigation or enhancement strategies to enable the project to proceed
• Review final out-turn cost against the initial cost plan and benchmark
• Identify lessons learned for improving value for money on future projects

Job Skills: Not Specified

  Job Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent qualification
• 3 – 6 years cost estimation, including the first principles estimation and benchmarking of energy projects

  Job Education Requirements:
• Bachelors Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent qualification

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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