Senior Quantity Surveyor

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Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor. The successful applicant will exhibit a keen enthusiasm for collaborating with our client teams to ensure the successful delivery of their complex projects on schedule, within budget, and to high-quality standards, while upholding a strong commitment to safety. This exceptional opportunity provides the successful candidate with exposure to complex buildings / infrastructure projects in Singapore.

What you will contribute to the team: 

• Manage the pre-contract tender process including tender assessment and queries and issue the contract award recommendation report.
  
• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and make allowance for all risks.
  
• Managing commercial inputs to the procurement process including ensuring that strategies are developed and agreed.
  
• Managing the post contract activities such as monthly valuation assessment, undertake the bill audit, Review the cash flow projections vs actual and closely track the cost variances. Review and assess the Contract variations / claims in line with the contract agreement.
• Contracts are properly managed and administered in accordance with contract requirements including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, compensation events and programme submissions etc.
  
• Ensuring robust budget and cost management is always undertaken, taking a proactive approach, providing solutions with a ‘can do’ attitude.
  
• Ownership of accurate commercial reporting.
  
• Proactive management of project and programme risk including ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
  
• Development of strong client relationships across its organisation.
• Supporting internal business development initiatives.

Required for the position Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Experience in Singapore Government projects especially high-rise residential buildings, commercial buildings, etc.
  
• Extensive experience in project delivery, administration and management.
  
• Demonstrable understanding and practical application of the Government contracts.
  
• Pre-contract tendering experience on Singapore projects.
  
• Commercially managed and delivered post-contract projects from contract award to final account, e.g. budget and price control, forecast to complete, payment assessments and compensation events.
• Stakeholder management.

Candidate Specification :

• BE/B.Tech/Master's in "Civil Engineering" OR any relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying OR Equivalent in the relevant subject.
• 08 plus years of relevant experience
• Good command of Excel

Desirable (Good to have)

• Chartered Quantity Surveyor (MRICS or equivalent)
• Have Singapore standard methods of measurement
  
• Experience in data collection and analysis including presentation of relevant information in a suitable format
  
• Proven skills and experience of delivering within a Cost Consultancy 
  
• Competent at building relationships both with internal management and externally with key client and stakeholders
  
• CostX / PowerBI / SharePoint experience 
  
• Experience in relevant sectors: Buildings (Residential, Commercial, retail, Community centre, entertainment related buildings, etc) related development

Flexible working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing