Quantity Surveyor at Cityworks Real Estate Solutions Limited

CITYWORKS Real Estate Solutions Limited is an emerging real estate solutions company with a focus on the customer and innovation . We do not offer a one size fits all product, but design real estate related solutions with the customer in mind. The company sees real estate not just as a home or an investment but as a significant means of enhancing one’s quality of life, at whatever level one finds oneself.

At CITYWORKS, we take a wholistic view of the real estate value chain and discover ways in which we can tap into it in order to create value for our customers, our partners and ourselves. Critical to supporting our value proposition of designing for the customer is entering the right strategic partnerships.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quantity Surveyor

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The quantity surveyor manages all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, from the initial calculations to the final figures.
• Surveyors seek to minimize the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality.

Duties

• Preparing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities with the architect and/or the client;
• Undertaking cost analysis for repair and maintenance project work;
• Assisting in establishing a client's requirements and undertaking feasibility studies;
• Performing risk, value management and cost control;
• Advising on procurement strategy;
• Identifying, analysing and developing responses to commercial risks;
• Preparing and analysing costings for tenders;
• Allocating work to subcontractors;
• Providing advice on contractual claims;
• Analysing outcomes and writing detailed progress reports;
• Valuing completed work and arranging payments;
• Maintaining awareness of the different building contracts in current use;
• Understanding the implications of health and safety regulations.

Qualifications

• BSc / HND in Quantity Surveying
• Professional qualification will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 5 years post NYSC qualification experience.
• Candidates must have worked as QS for a construction company

Additional Information:

• Must understand the different types of bonds and where they are applicable – Advance Payment, Retention, Performance, Bid etc
• Must understand how to prepare material and labour schedule
• Must be able to prepare BOQ with rates taking off with project drawings
• Must have excellent understanding of grades of concrete with their mix ratios
• Must have excellent understanding of how to prepare valuations and variation claims
• Must understand what terms like penultimate valuation, half moiety, etc.
• Must understand how to price project preliminaries in relation to extension of time.
• Must understand the various methods of valuing preliminaries for an ongoing project
• Must understand the preambles and conditions of contract – FIDIC , SMM and JCT
• Must understand the various types of contracts – Fixed, Fluctuating, All inclusive etc
• Must understand site materials inventory management and control.

Application Closing Date
17th December, 2021.