Quantity Surveyor
DEPARTMENT
Quantity Surveying
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Follow the company’s policies, procedures, financial controls, quality standards, and professional requirements.
- Prepare preliminary cost estimates, cost plans, feasibility studies, elemental cost analyses, and project budgets.
- Advise the client and project team on construction costs, procurement strategies, contract arrangements, value management, and cost risks.
- Monitor the project design to ensure that it remains within the approved budget.
- Prepare bills of quantities, schedules of rates, tender documents, cost breakdowns, and other procurement documentation.
- Coordinate with the architect, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects, and other consultants to obtain complete and coordinated tender information.
- Manage the tender process, including tender invitations, tender briefings, tender queries, addenda, tender evaluations, clarifications, negotiations, and tender reports.
- Evaluate tenders and prepare recommendations for the appointment of contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and specialist vendors.
- Prepare contract documents and ensure that agreed commercial terms are properly incorporated.
- Attend client, consultant, tender, contractual, and site meetings.
- Assess contractors’ progress claims, variation claims, loss and expense claims, fluctuations, provisional sums, and other contractual entitlements.
- Prepare interim valuations and recommend payment amounts based on verified work completed.
- Evaluate variation orders and advise the client on their cost and contractual implications.
- Maintain updated cost reports, cash-flow forecasts, variation registers, payment records, and final account status.
- Monitor committed expenditure and forecast the anticipated final project cost.
- Advise the project team on cost-saving opportunities and value engineering proposals without compromising design intent, quality, safety, or statutory compliance.
- Assist in the assessment of extensions of time, delay-related costs, and contractual claims where required.
- Prepare and negotiate the final account with the contractor and relevant parties.
- Verify contractual warranties, bonds, insurance documents, and other commercial deliverables.
- Maintain complete and accurate financial, tender, contractual, and cost records.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the Management.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Prepare and certify cost estimates, tender evaluations, valuations, variation assessments, and final account recommendations within the authorized scope.
- Verify the accuracy of quantities, rates, measurements, and cost calculations.
- Ensure that all cost reports accurately reflect the current financial position of the project.
- Provide timely advice on budget overruns, financial risks, contractual exposure, and cost implications.
- Maintain confidentiality and integrity in all tendering, procurement, and commercial matters.
