Primary Objective
· Senior Quantity Surveyor seek to minimize the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality projects.
· Manage the financial aspects of construction projects, ensure completed within the allocated budget
· Equipped with professionalism, to provide support to the project team, maintaining commercial information and ensuring compliance with contractual requirements and ensure that the Company’s objectives are achieved. Liaise with customer representatives and other third parties on commercial issues including agreement of variations, claims, and any additional payments.
· Support, advise, and develop towards junior QS, conduct knowledge transfer and managing complexity of issues/disputes
Cost Control and Monitoring: Monitor project costs to ensure align with the budget, track expenses, review invoices, and manage payment processes
Contract Administration: Administer contracts between client, contractors, and subcontractors, ensure comply with the terms and conditions of the contract, including payment schedules, variations, and claims
Value Engineering: Collaborate with design, construction team to optimize project costs, propose alternative materials, construction methods, design modifications that offer cost savings
1. Contracts Start Up
a) Understanding & extraction of tender provision, tender clarifications(addendum) project particular specification & drawing for subcontract award etc
b) Summarization of list of subcontract award required
c) Summarization the highlights of main contract document
d) Attending project start up meeting
e) Preparing pre and post contracts filing
2. Subcontract Award
a) Tabulation & measurement of quantity for each trade
b) Preparation of scope of works and seek approval from CM and PM
c) Maintain award master list
d) Incorporating subcon award check list and compilation
e) Source, evaluation and negotiation of quotation with subcontractors
f) Prepare COR and catalogue /samples as per check list
g) Preparation of Subcontract Agreement / Letter of Award/ Work Order
h) Following up on the return copy of the Subcontract Agreement
i) Updating of summary of subcontractor awarded list
3. Progress Claim
a) Conducting monthly site visit
b) Preparation of all V.O claim
c) Coordination with site for project manager’s assessment of claim
d) Compilation of progress claim and all supporting document to substantiate our progress claim
e) Prepare and go through progress claim with CM with updated subcontractor payment status, progress claim summary and relevant subcontractor VO claim / abortive work
f) Preparation of EOT claim
g) Preparation of Loss & Expense claim
h) Submission of progress claim to consultant / main contractor on time
i) Verification of Architect certificate / consultant’s assessment including NSC / main contractor payment response
j) Prepare and maintain progress claim summary
4. Progress Payment
a) Keep subcontractor's claim / invoice / DO file
b) Verify and get endorsement of PM, CM and PD on one-time payments and pass to a/c to process payment and maintain summary of one-time payments
c) Conducting site assessment (when required)
d) Preparation of payment response / certificate, breakdown, payment summary, remarks, recovery summary of advance payment if there is any and other supporting documents
e) Get approval from PM, CM and PD – prepare a complete set of subcontractor payment response / certificate together with consultant assessment, other supporting documents, payment file and go through payments with PM, CM and PD
f) Fill up monthly cash flow report prior to 1st payment assessment and submit to CM by 20th of each month
5. Variation Order
a) Updating records of VO - VO master list (w/- & w/o- Architect’s Instruction)
b) Coordination with site for project manager’s assessment of VO
c) Preparation and submission of VO assessment incorporating VO checklist form for CM, PM and PD’s approval
d) Submission of VO to consultant
e) Coordinating with subcontractor & client on the submission of quotation
6. Finalization of Account
a) List of subcontractors required for measurement of quantity
b) List of subcontractors to be finalized before the main contractor
c) Compilation of checklist for finalization
d) Preparation of final account and get CM, PM and PD’s approval and submission of final account to client
e) Prepare subcon final account and release of retention to get CM, PM and PD’s approval and update summary
f) Submission of outstanding product Warranty Card, Operation Menu, Test Cert. etc.
g) Prepare and update summary
7. Closing of Project
a) Compilation of full data records of completed project hard copy filing and in Contracts Server
b) Responding to consultant upon the expiry of the main contractor’s Insurance Policy, Indemnity etc.
8. Tendering when required
a) Assist on tender preparation when necessary;
b) Willing to work overtime to meet the limited tender period.
c) Discuss with Boss/ CM for all the matters about the tender submission.
Be responsive on any other duties assigned by management.
