Project Officer - Quantity Surveyor Job in Nigeria at Sahara Bulk Storage Companies Limited

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Job Title: Project Officer – Quantity Surveyor

Location: Lagos Nigeria

Operating Company: Sahara Bulk Storage Companies Limited

Parent Company: Sahara Group

Purpose Statements:

The job role seeks to ensure adequate transparency in all contract administrative requirements for a successful client – contractor relationship. It will provide a degree of project cost estimation input for project appraisals and planning requirements. The role will aim to create a systemic approach to earned value analysis for contract design and valuation process to monitor project performance.

Key Deliverables:

• Support the Planning Engineer in the development of Cost estimate for inputs into project appraisals and business plan development.

• Knowledge transfer of the QS discipline to all project members and procurement function

• Subject matter expertise input as applicable for all project construction works

• Act as Quantity Surveyor for projects, liaising with other professional or technical staff employed on the project as appropriate

• Develop and document the QS system processes for Sahara Bulk projects

• Develop Cost option appraisals, product life costings, budget estimates, cost planning for the Tender management process for all projects and procurement function requirements

• Perform planned site inspections for validation of material supplies and material handling procedures

• Provide cost impact report for all change request and approved variation works

• Develop historical cost analysis and projections with consideration of identified change factors for inputs into the cost estimation process

• Provide the Project Manager with all necessary reports including value for money reports reviewing tenders received against budget and regular cost reports for inclusion in monthly progress reports

• Assist the Project Manager in the capacity of  a Contract Administrator by certifying contractor payments, contract claims, proposed variations, tendering procedures, monitoring/forecasting costs against budgets and preparing final accounts;

• Assist the Planning engineer in preparing and pricing of project risk plans and work packages

• Assist in the development of price trend analysis and projections for contracting/procurement strategy and best value solutions

• Project role for supervision of Sahara Bulk major projects as delegated by a Project responsibility matrix

Minimum Qualification / Experience:

• B.Sc Quantity Surveying – with minimum of 3 years experience of Oil downstream business

Knowledge/Skills:

• Familiarization with Project management methodology with CAPM certification an advantage

• Process development skills and awareness of system thinking concept

• Cost engineering role with exposure to tendering process, contract administration and development of Bill of Materials.

• Excellent skills in the use of Microsoft office and Microsoft Project.

• Strong negotiation and purchasing skills

• Strong financial, analytical and interpretive skills      

Personality Traits:

• Ability to gather, analyze and validate data

• Excellent written and communication skills

• Intellectual curiosity and attention to details

• Good team member spirit and interrelationship skills

• Excellent planning and scheduling skills

How to Apply:

If you are interested in working with the organisation and your skills and capabilities match the job profile, submit your application now.

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2. Search for the open position by selecting "Experience Hire" under "User Type"

3. Ignore "GMP Cateory"

4. Click "Find"

5. All the available openings will show up. Look for the job title.

6. Then, Click on "View Details" to submit your application.

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Deadline: 25 July 2012.

Project Officer - Quantity Surveyor Job in Nigeria