Senior/Lead Quantity Surveyors - 8:2 roster

With offices in Australia, Africa, Canada, Peru and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium Minerals are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior/Lead Quantity Surveyor to join our onsite project team in the South East Asia. This position will be fulfilling an 8:2 roster.

Reporting to the Constuction Manager, the Senior/Lead Quantity Surveyor will conduct field scoping activities in order to establish the quantity take-off for the project. Additionally, the role will assist with the provision of cost and material estimates, as well as working alongside the project team noting any design changes and effect on cost in order to ensure continued compliance to Company, Client, regulatory and contractual requirements.

The tasks you'll perform

• Quantity take-off and preparation of the Bills of Quantities on the project(s). 
• Review construction plans / drawings to calculate and prepare quantity requirements, highlighting any anomalies to the Estimating team and updating quantities in line with any changes.
• Tracking, monitoring, and controlling costs during the project lifecycle.
• Analyse actual cost against planned cost and forecast final cost versus budget.
• Budget/ Tender reconciliation, change management and variance analysis.
• Understand and interpret scopes, pricing schedules, commercial framework, and reporting obligations against the EPCM contract.
• Analyse and evaluate maintenance and material costs, as well as contracts, to ensure the best overall outcome for the project.
• Liaise with the Construction Manager, site management team, clients, contractors, and subcontractors on cost and budget management.
• Interpret specification and standards in order to assess their impact on project costs.
• Provide continuous monitoring of the installed quantities against the original budget and approved variations.
• Act as a focal point and SME for internal and external stakeholders on any QS related matters.

The expertise you'll bring

• Tertiary qualification in Science (construction management and quantity surveying) or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years comparable quantity surveying experience within the construction industry or similar.
• Member of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.
• Broad multidisciplinary base knowledge in mineral processing plant and infrastructure construction will be considered favourably.
• Demonstrable experience reviewing construction plans and preparing subsequent quantity requirements.
• Detailed knowledge of commercial management and QS obligations within a project environment.
• High-level negotiating and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision with a consistently high degree of accuracy and producing a high quality of deliverables.
• Ability to build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, and work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple teams and locations. 

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium Minerals have a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

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