Chief Quantity Surveyor at 4 Quarters Consultants

4 Quarters Consultants - Our client, a well-know construction company based in Lagos, Nigeria, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Quantity Surveyor

Location: Lagos

Job Purpose

• To successfully manage all contract bidding process and the pre contract QS team, to ensure all bidding projects remains on budget, identify areas of cost overruns and/or savings and minimize effect at early stage.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an interface between the potential clients and the company liaise with the Commercial Manager to ensure all Request for pre-contract manual Prequalification and Expression of Interest are timely attended to.
• Present any Invitation to Tender to the General Manager for Management's decision.
• Allocate the available tenders on ground to the departmental personnel to work on.
• Release from time to time the list of tenders being worked on and the submitted tenders for management's action and necessary follow up.
• Update the rates for bill items according to the market trends
• Collect from time to time from procurement department and vendors, the current market updates of various construction items.
• Be actively involved in the tendering process; pricing of bill, collection of quotations from vendors etc.
• Ensure a thorough check on the works done by other member of the team before they are passed to the General Manager for further checking.
• When a project is eventually awarded to the company; collate all the documents like the Contract drawings, the contract Bill of Quantities, the Quotations of the vendors used in pricing the bill, the
• Contract Conditions, the award letter and all other necessary documents in hard and soft copies, hands over same to the Post-Contract Unit for Post-Contract Management.
• Cascade and align organizational goals with departmental direction.
• Responsibility for driving the team’s welfare, development and team exposure in close collaboration with HR.
• Liaising with existing staff members, managers, supervisors, and clients in order to achieve set goals.
• Observing, analyzing, and offering suggestions on current departmental operations.
• Assisting with recruitment, training, and onboarding processes for new hires within the department.
• Establishing professional relationships with clients, staff, and other stakeholders.
• Ensuring all health and safety, as well as company regulations are followed by your team at all times.
• Any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.

Qualification

• Master's, BSc / HND / Quantity Survey+ MNIQS
• Active involvement in a leadership capacity within your professional network or professional body

Experience

• 15 Year Post graduation experience

Project Experience:

• Have put a minimum of 45 tenders together from start to finish in an excellent manner
• Applicants must be fluent in French.

Application Closing Date
28th February, 2023.