Sahara Group Recruiting Project Officer - Quantity Surveyor

Posted on Fri 20th Jul, 2012 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

Sahara Group is recruiting to fill the 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. Copied from: hotnigerianjobs.com
  • 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 Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
  • Project role for supervision of Sahara Bulk major projects as delegated by a Project responsibility matrix
Minimum Qualification / Experience:
  • B.Sc 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 skills
  • 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
25th July, 2012

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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