Quantity Surveyor

L&V Elite

The role of Estimator / QS is key to the company s future development and success in delivering a continuous flow of new business and identifying future opportunities in both competitive tendering and design and build projects.

L&V Elite seeks to attract a Quantity Surveyor with broad commercial skills and a strong background in estimating understanding the commercial drivers, risk profiles, and key success factors for Clients procuring construction works.

The Estimator / QS will ensure robust, accurate, and innovative advice is delivered to clients to align with their needs and business objectives.

This concept has underpinned the success of JTC to date.

Key Accountabilities of the role are detailed below.

A-Key Accountabilities:

1- Work Procurement (EST)

• Monitor relevant planning authority websites to identify work opportunities
• Pursue opportunities to obtain tender documents
• Completion and submission of PQQs

2- Pre-Contract (EST)

• Maintain sub-contract database
• Maintain material suppliers database
• Assess tender documents to ensure sufficient information available to prepare tender
• Take off quantities
• Prepare and issue subcontract inquiries and assessment of quotations upon receipt
• Prepare and issue material supply inquiries and assessment of quotations upon receipt
• Pricing of Excavations, Concrete, Brickwork, Woodwork, Roof tiling, External Render, Drainage, External works, and minor landscaping (all other trades are normally sub-contracted)
• Complete tender documents for submission
• Prepare specifications and/or Contractors proposals
• Submit tenders and follow up
• Post tender negotiations

3- Post Contract (QS)

• Maintain contract documentation and advise on pre-tender and post contract matters
• Preparation and issue of contractual letters to clients and/or sub-contractors
• Post contract liaison with clients
• Post contract liaison with the design team
• Carry out take-offs for material procurement
• Sub-contract negotiation and letting
• Preparation and submission of interim valuations
• Site measurement
• Manage and value variations
• Agreement and certification of sub-contractors interim valuations and final accounts
• Preparation and submission of several works final account
• Agreement of final accounts

B- PERSON SPECIFICATION Qualifications

• Degree caliber
• RICS (not essential) Skills
• Good working knowledge of forms of contract currently used within the Building and Civil Engineering industry
• Good working knowledge of standard forms of stander Egyptian measurement
• Driving license.
• Good IT skills particularly Word and Excel
• Excellent communication skills

Personal Qualities

• A high degree of personal motivation
• Commercial acumen
• Ability to work as part of a close-knit management team and manage numerous activities/projects simultaneously both short and long term.
• Ability to work on own initiative and with the minimum of supervision
• An outgoing personality is essential for dealing directly with Clients and their design teams

• Good negotiator
• Flexibility with regard to working across all areas of the business, and hours to meet the requirements of this challenging position.

Competencies

• Leadership
• Enterprising and Commercial Approach
• A Planned Approach
• Taking Responsibility
• Customer Focus
• Building and Maintaining Relationships