Senior Quantity Surveyor (Civil Projects)

This is a numbers job with boots on: bills of quantities, site measurements and payment claims in Burgersfort. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

You'll report in Burgersfort. Relocation is not covered for this one. Hours are mostly Monday to Friday, with the odd Saturday in busy months.

• Prepare the final account at the end of the project
• Take off quantities from drawings to build a bill of quantities
• Get quotes from subcontractors and compare them line by line
• Measure work on site for monthly interim payment certificates
• Use measuring software to do take-offs from PDF and CAD drawings
• Price tenders using supplier quotes, labour rates and plant costs
• Value variations and prepare claims under JBCC or GCC conditions

• You know the Standard System of Measuring Building Work
• Understanding of JBCC Principal Building Agreement clauses
• BSc, BTech or Diploma in Quantity Surveying
• At least 3 years of QS work in private practice or with a contractor
• Code 08 licence for site visits
• Strong Excel skills, including formulas and pivot tables

• Estimating software experience on top of Excel
• SACQSP registration as a Professional or Candidate QS

• Study support for an honours degree
• Paid SACQSP registration fees and CPD courses
• Hybrid days in the office and on site
• Travel allowance for site visits

• If you are a candidate, say how far you are with your SACQSP logbook and when you plan to write the exam.
• Recruiters often give a short take-off test. Practise measuring a simple house plan under time pressure before the interview.