Quantity Surveyor
Manage costs and contracts within a building project to ensure that it is completed on time.
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- What's it like to be a Quantity Surveyor?
- How to become a Quantity Surveyor
- Latest Quantity Surveyor jobs
- Top skills and experience for Quantity Surveyors
- Quantity Surveyor role reviews
What's it like to be a Quantity Surveyor?
Quantity Surveyors manage contracts and costs of a construction project, from beginning to completion. They are expected to have an aptitude for mathematics, estimation, and problem-solving. They are very hands-on in the construction process and are in charge of running a cost analysis on repair work, issuing payments to contractors, and distributing work among the construction team.
Tasks and duties
- Projecting cost estimates on various materials needed for a project.
- Preparing contracts, legal tender documents, invoices, and other documentation.
- Hiring or procuring subcontractors based on the presented budget to the client.
- Liaising with site managers, site engineers, and other necessary people to ensure the project follows to the timeline.
- Issuing payments to contractors and other employees.
How to become a Quantity Surveyor
Becoming a Quantity Surveyor entails the right education, recognition, and experience.
- Take up a bachelor degree in quantity surveying (QS) or any university programme accredited by the Board of Quantity Surveying Malaysia (BQSM), the sole accrediting body of QS programmes in the country.
- Once you have graduated from your university programme, you will need to take up the Assessment of Professional Competence under the BQSM. There are two levels of registration: the Professional Quantity Surveyor and the Consultant Quantity Surveyor.
- You must also register as a provisional member with the BQSM and the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) as you continue the path of becoming a Qualified Quantity Surveyor.
- You may receive the prefix title, ‘Sr.’ once you have completed and passed all exams and interviews.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Quantity Surveyor employers on Jobstreet are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Quantity Surveying
Preparing Tenders
Bill of Quantity
Cost Estimation
Valuation
Quotation
Contract Administration
Cost Control
AutoCAD
Construction Industry
Submitting Tenders
Cost Analysis
Construction Projects
Project Cost
Drawing
Construction Management
Negotiation
Project Cost Control
Projection
Construction Materials
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Latest Quantity Surveyor reviews
Nov 2022
Happy when works being appreciated. Time and effort put in, not only bcoz of salary but hardworks being recognised
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Building Surveying
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationConstruction
The good thingsNegotiation skill,
Lots of knowledges can learn,
Mathematic and calculation
The challengesFast pace environment,
A lot of unpredictable incidents due to human default. Unplanned work flow.
Adhoc stuffs is unavoidable
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Nov 2022
. Keep tract with the claim progress to evaluations on the claims ( work done & Variations).Attend site to measurement and valuotations for analysis subcontract progress claim
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationConstruction
The good things To revise, evaluate and propose recommendations on tenders and
quotation to submitted by the subcontractor, vendors and suppliers. Procuring subcontract and request to quote the materials for compare...
The challengesControl project scope to meet objective in order to entrance project deliverables and key work activities.
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