Project Officer - Quantity Surveyor at Sahara Bulk Storage Companies Limited

Sahara Group is  seeking to fill the vacant position of Project Officer - Quantity Surveyor.

Job Title: Project Officer-Quantity Surveyor

Operating Company: Sahara Bulk Storage Companies Limited
Location: Lagos State

Purpose Statements:
The job role seeks to ensure adequate transparency in all contract administrative requirements for a successful client - contractor relationship. It will provide a degree of project cost estimation input for project appraisals and planning requirements. The role will aim to create a systemic approach to earned value analysis for contract design and valuation process to monitor project performance.

Key Deliverables

• Support the Planning Engineer in the development of Cost estimate for inputs into project appraisals and business plan development.
• Knowledge transfer of the QS discipline to all project members and procurement function
• Subject matter expertise input as applicable for all project construction works
• Act as Quantity Surveyor for projects, liaising with other professional or technical staff employed on the project as appropriate
• Develop and document the QS system processes for Sahara Bulk projects
• Develop Cost option appraisals, product life costings, budget estimates, cost planning for the Tender management process for all projects and procurement function requirements
• Perform planned site inspections for validation of material supplies and material handling procedures
• Provide cost impact report for all change request and approved variation works
• Develop historical cost analysis and projections with consideration of identified change factors for inputs into the cost estimation process
• Provide the Project Manager with all necessary reports including value for money reports reviewing tenders received against budget and regular cost reports for inclusion in monthly progress reports
• Assist the Project Manager in the capacity of  a Contract Administrator by certifying contractor payments, contract claims, proposed variations, tendering procedures, monitoring/forecasting costs against budgets and preparing final accounts;
• Assist the Planning engineer in preparing and pricing of project risk plans and work packages
• Assist in the development of price trend analysis and projections for contracting/procurement strategy and best value solutions
• Project role for supervision of Sahara Bulk major projects as delegated by a Project responsibility matrix

Minimum Qualification / Experience:
B.Sc in Quantity Surveying  with minimum of 3 years experience of Oil downstream business

Knowledge/Skills:

• Familiarization with Project management methodology with CAPM certification an advantage
• Process development skills and awareness of system thinking concept
• Cost engineering role with exposure to tendering process, contract administration and development of Bill of Materials.
• Excellent skills in the use of Microsoft office and Microsoft Project.
• Strong negotiation and purchasing skill
• Strong financial, analytical and interpretive skills     

Personality Traits:

• Ability to gather, analyze and validate data
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Intellectual curiosity and attention to details
• Good team member spirit and interrelationship skills
• Excellent planning and scheduling skills

Application Closing Date
22th May 2012

How To Apply
Interested candidates should:
Visit http://careers.sahara-group.com
When the page opens selsct Processed User from the user type dropdown and click Find.