Lead Quantity Surveyor

Your mission:

• Value for money is the primary driver for the role
• Evaluating quotations: Ensuring costs reflect scope & verifying contractor rates with industry established norms.
• Verifying Invoices: Ensuring that we pay for actual work done when using cost re-measurable contracts
• Working with procurement to select the best contracting strategy for each job to minimize cost and maximize productivity within the constraints of safety, environment, cost, duration, scope, quality, risks, and available resources
• Working with Project, Senior & Plant engineers to ensure that the best contractors are selected
• Safety, Risk, Environment & Community: Zero harm, respect the environment and the community by ensuring compliance to SHEQ systems, standards, and legislative requirements for annual Shuts
• Relationship development: delivering the annual shutdown outcomes in a safe manner, on time, in cost budget and with agreed quality requirements by working cross-functionally between all the plants, and across all the engineering disciplines (i.e., Mechanical, Electrical, Instrument, Process)
• Procurement and contract management

Your profile:

• BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying or equivalent (i.e. B. Tech - Quantity Surveying)
• Membership of recognised professional board in QS (e.g. SACQSP, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) will be advantageous
• PMP (Project Management Professional) with PMI (Project Management Institute) or equivalent will be advantageous
• At least 5 year’s of experience in Quantity Surveying & Project Management 
• Experience working with SAP, Microsoft Projects, Primavera P6 or other Project Management software advantageous
• A minimum of 3 years Supervisory experience/ team leadership experience is requirement
• Coordination of skills outside the Jobs own skills area may be required
• An understanding of the industry, products and services supplied is required
• Manage & develop cost engineering team, leading to and during execution of shuts
• Lead cost engineering team to developing cost estimates 
• Ensuring compliance to cost control procedures 
• Preparing & managing forward man loading of contractors for annual shut
• Manage & implement monitoring tools for all cash-flows
• Monitoring the greater environment to identify potential cost risks and submit recommendations to relevant stakeholders to action
• Forecasting cost in alignment with schedule, considering vendor inputs, site instructions, claim forecasts, tariff increases and volume increases
• Implementation and management of cost change management process
• Assisting with preparation of Annual Shut Audits & cost reports per contractor
• Prepares annual shut quantities reports (daily, weekly, monthly, close-out reports)
• Ensure alignment of contractor rates between Maintenance, Annual Shut, and projects / Capex

We offer: 

• Location: Richards Bay Mill, 7 Western Arterial, Alton, Richards Bay, 3900
• Duration: Permanent

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We strive to create a culture that inspires our people to reach their full potential. Going the extra mile – for colleagues and customers – our people drive our passion for performance and are the key ingredient of Mondi’s success. Be part of our future. 

Do you want to know more about Mondi? We are a global leader in packaging and paper, contributing to a better world through innovative solutions that are sustainable by design. Our global team of 22,000 people works across 100 production sites in more than 30 countries.

Our strength lies in our diversity. We are dedicated to creating a team that reflects the diversity of the world we operate in. 

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Appointments will be made in line with our Employment Equity Plan. The above advert has minimum requirements listed; however, Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for shortlisting.

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