Senior Quantity Surveyor - Rail & Infrastructure
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.
At WT, our Clients’ vision is our goal. We understand that there is no such thing as a standard project and we tailor solutions to meet each client’s needs and objectives.
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.
Job Description
The WT Melbourne office is beyond busy and due to significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients, we’re on the lookout for qualified and experienced Senior Quantity Surveyors, ideally with major Rail and Infrastructure project experience.
This role will perform various quantity surveying functions including estimating, cost management and monitoring, and accurate and timely financial reporting whilst exercising sound financial acumen with a key focus on proactively maximising value for our clients.
This role is client-facing, and those with experience managing stakeholder-dense clients will do well, and likewise, we are looking for someone who wants to be a leader in the industry, delivering large and complex projects while also helping mentor the future generation.
This role is responsible for:
2. Taking a lead role in liaising with clients, architects and main contractors
3. Identifying and facilitating new business opportunities
4. Master-plan and feasibility budgets
5. Cost checking of developing design
6. Value engineering
7. Tender evaluations and analysis
8. Contract negotiations
9. Cash flow projects
10. Procurement
11. Cost reporting
12. Evaluation of variations
13. Valuations
14. Final account reporting
15. Claims preparation, presentation, negotiation and settlement of claims
16. Investment analysis
17. Formulating and implementing benchmarking processes to improve the consistency, accuracy and time to prepare cost models and plans
Qualifications
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. Wellbeing days- time to focus on your wellbeing and the community
29. 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
30. 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 and advance and broaden your career within the construction industry then this could be a great opportunity for you. Apply now to join an international cost consultancy at the forefront of VIC's major construction across all sectors: commercial, retail, residential, mixed use, infrastructure and health.
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