Senior Quantity Surveyor
1. Full-time
Company Description
We are award-winning international quantity surveyors, cost management, sustainability, asset and building consultants, PPP advisors and facilities managers.
Our expertise covers the building, construction and infrastructure sectors, as well as the management of facilities and the provision of complex advisory services.
Not just in Australia and the United Kingdom. You’ll find us across the Globe and when you work with WT, you work with the collective thinking of over 2000 of the profession’s best people.
That makes us one of the world’s leading international cost and consultancy firms. But we’re not only large, we’re also fiercely independent. We own and control all of our individual offices wherever we operate. This is the world of WT: a world of seamless and efficient consultancy services delivered through partnering with clients and building the best teams.
Job Description
Our WT Melbourne office continues to experience unparalleled growth and with this comes opportunity for a number of Senior Quantity Surveyors to join our highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams across the buildings and infrastructure sectors.
We're looking for 6+ SQS's with a variety of experience, there's never been a better time to join WT and these roles all come with unsurpassed opportunities for career growth, with genuine progression and an open-door policy, you can join WT now and be confident your career will only continue to go upwards.
We're doing things differently at WT, offering market leading training & development that is completely overlooked in today's market. With a purpose built estimating & measurement software, we have the capability of allowing our people to work more efficiently and whilst these roles are based in Melbourne, you could work remotely from anywhere.
In turn you'll earn a market leading salary (with a bi-annual bonus) and work on some of the most exciting and high-profile projects that Melbourne has to offer.
We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With WT, you can truly discover the power of 'team' and join that team, we're ideally looking for Senior Quantity Surveyors with this experience:
2. Master-plan and feasibility budgets
3. Cost checking of developing design
4. Value engineering
5. Tender evaluations and analysis
6. Contract negotiations
7. Cash flow projects
8. Procurement
9. Cost reporting
10. Evaluation of variations
11. Valuations
12. Final account reporting
13. Claims preparation, presentation, negotiation and settlement of claims
14. Investment analysis
15. Formulating and implementing benchmarking processes to improve the consistency, accuracy and time to prepare cost models and plans
16. Liaising with clients, architects and main contractors
17. Identifying and facilitating new business opportunities
Qualifications
We would love to hear from you if you have:
18. Relevant tertiary qualification in any of the following areas: Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering or Construction Management
19. Full Australian working rights and currently located in Australia
20. RICS / AIQS accredited candidates will be highly regarded
21. Proficient in the use of Cost X
22. Ability to produce both top down and bottom up cost plans
23. A thorough understanding of the total project life cycle, from conception, through to completion and post-project review
24. Highly motivated with a passion for delivering excellence to clients
25. Excellent communication skills and ability to manage a team and control multiple projects/client commissions
Additional Information
At WT, in addition to your competitive salary we offer many perks including:
26. Bi-annual bonus scheme- unlike other companies we offer discretionary performance bonuses TWICE a year
27. Paid professional memberships- support in gaining and supporting your membership costs for RICS and AIQS
28. Three / Two split between the office and working from home.
29. Wellbeing days- time to focus on your wellbeing and the community
30. WT’s balanced way of working- to optimise work according to where and how employees work best and enhance employee experience and wellbeing, whilst boosting organisational outcomes and setting a foundation for future growth
31. When you're working from the office, you'll be in an award-winning office fit-out which supports flexible and activity based working in a prime location with amazing views
If you're keen to advance and broaden your career within the construction industry, then this could be a fantastic opportunity for you. Apply now to join an independently owned, international cost consultancy at the forefront of Australia's major construction and infrastructure projects.
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