Senior QS /Contracts Administrator - Leading International Consultancy - Major Infrastructure Projec

Job description / Role

The Role:

- Prepare ad hoc tender packages.

- Monitor and report upon progress of works agree, record and comment upon the value and quantity of anticipated and executed works.

- Monitor the works progress against programme and provide an updated programme to the PM and client on a regular basis; ideally in P6.

- Progressively agree remeasures of all works with the main contractor.

- Agree the monthly interim payment applications with the main contractor and make recommendation via certificate and back up to the PM and client.

- General contract and contract administration advice and assistance to PM and client.

- Record and monitor all correspondence, notices, certificates and the like, to ensure compliance with contractual timeline.

- Review correspondence from the contract pursuant to all claims (loss and expense and extension of time) and purported change orders / variations.

- Investigate and prepare contractual rebuttals to claims and the like on behalf of the PM and the client.

- Investigate and prepare responses for change orders on behalf of the PM or client including contractual and valuation input.

- Pursue to conclusion the resolution of all claims with and or on behalf of the team.

- Agree the value of contract change orders and claims with the contractor.

- Identify scope for savings / value engineering; report to PM and client with options.

- Monitor costs including recording and reporting to the PM and client on a minimum monthly basis.

- Review and comment on extension of time claims and the like; provide contractual responses on behalf of the PM and client.

Requirements

- MRICS; 10 15 years experience.

- Contract Administrator or Quantity Surveyor with programming / planning ability.

- Experience with POMI and FIDIC beneficial but not essential.

- Effective and patient negotiation skills coupled with ability to deal with challenging environments due to language barriers.

- Proactive and results driven and able to work comfortably and effectively both in a team and alone.

About the Company

At NSR we pride ourselves on market knowledge, integrity, loyalty and professionalism. Through personal relationships and knowledge of what our clients look for in specific requirements we like to pride ourselves on matching people to the right role.

The partners at NSR have always dealt with people in an open and honest manner and as a company we are driven to find the right opportunity for people enhancing their career where ever this may be worldwide.

We work on the principal that every person we deal with is a potential client, this process has proved beneficial for us as there are many people we have dealt with on the International circuit that have approached NSR Associates to recruit for them as a client after we have worked on their behalf as a candidate.