Quantity Surveyors at Resource Intermediaries Limited

Job Objective
Manages all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, from the initial calculations to the final figures; minimize the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare bill of quantity
• Evaluation tenders and recommendations
• Procure all materials for construction
• Prepare material and labour analysis
• Infrastructure
• Reviewing questions
• Cost and quality control
• Construction cost building types
• Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys in order to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
• Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of a terrain.
• Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
• Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
• Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
• Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems GPS.
• Provide topographic and cross-section surveys as required for planning and payment quantities and assists with conducting quantity calculations as required.
• Direct or conduct surveys in order to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
• Explore legal records, survey records, and land titles in order to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed and develop a database of all clients, blueprints and all survey information for easy tracking of information. .
• Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
• Liaise with Accounts, and relevant officers to acquire or lease surveying instruments that will ensure accuracy of data
• Identify all survey Hotspots in all the estates and ensure 100 accuracy in correcting them,
• Analyzes survey objectives and specifications in order to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
• Train Project Assistants to have understanding of survey data, blueprints and interpretation, such that they can assist in collection of data and accurately implement survey report.
• Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods, using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.

Key Performance Indicators

• Ability to manage: Project Management Operations
• Delivery of detailed project implementation plans
• Demonstrate knowledge on project management
• Project Deliverable/Activity forms/Job completion certificates
• Achieve 5% cost savings on project budget and provide evidence of budget monitoring.

Functional Competencies

• A Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying or any other related field.
• 4 -6 years related work experience
• Experience in similar industry.

Key Skills and Abilities

• Must pay Attention to details
• Must have good communication skills
• Must have excellent numerate skills
• Must be able to work neatly and accurately
• Ability to work in a team
• Must exhibit energy and enthusiasm
• Excellent I.T skills.

Reports:

• Surveyors report.