James Wait Email & Phone Number

South Africa

Key functions:Tender & Estimating- Generating High level cost estimates from concept drawings- Liaising with clients for feasibility studies- Generating Bill of Quantities from drawings- Pricing of Bill of Quantities for tender purposes- Pricing of Preliminaries and General- Completing Tender documentationContract management- Setting up Bill of Quantities on CCS- Generating contract Budgets- Generating P&G monthly management worksheets- Setting Up Site yard layout- Placing bulk material orders- Placing Daily purchase orders- Sub contract adjudication- Appointing Sub-contractors - Implementing Material receive/issue systems on site- Management of site clerk and store man- Re-measuring of work done- Calculating material required Contract Financial management- Maximising profits and recovery of costs incurred- Material on site calculations - Generating labour bookings- Monthly Valuations- Monthly Preliminaries and General cost reconciliations- Liaising directly with PQS and client- Monthly Cost reporting- Work in progress calculations- Monthly progress presentationContract Close out- Re-measure of Variation orders- Pricing of Variation Orders- Calculating contra charges and damages against sub-contractors- Signing off final accounts with Sub-contractors- Generating final accounts for clients

Compiling Enquiry / Tender DocumentsPreparation and compiling Bills of QuantitiesTender reviews and reportsCost management/monitoring and exercising stringent financial controlProducing monthly cost reportsAgreeing final accountsProjects:Xstrata Lion Project-Phase 2 (Xstrata Alloys)• Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor Structural SteelworksHusab Project (Swakop Uranium)• Project Value: NAD Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor CivilsAsanko Gold Project• Project Value: $ Undisclosed• Position: Lead Quantity SurveyorEstimate, Estimate Validations and Reviews:• Namakwa Sands Furnace 3 Pre-Feasibility Study• Habesha Estimate Validation / Review• West Rand Tailings Retreatment Project • Panda Hill – Niobium Project

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Estimating construction workCompiling Enquiry / Tender DocumentsPreparation and compiling Bills of QuantitiesTender reviews and reportsCost management/monitoring and exercising stringent financial controlProducing monthly cost reportsAssessment and approval of monthly valuationsAgreeing final accountsProjects:Wesizwe Early Works• Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor Bulk Earthworks and CivilsForzando Discard Dump (Total Coal South Africa)• Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor Bulk Earthworks, Civils, Structural Steelworks and PipingForzando Mining Complex (Total Coal South Africa)• Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor Mining WorksElloff Study (Total Coal South Africa)• Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity SurveyorPenumbra Early Works (Continental Coal) • Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor Bulk EarthworksDe Wittekrans Study (Continental Coal)• Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor Basil Read Turnkey Projects• Project Value: R Undisclosed• Position: Candidate Quantity Surveyor

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Quantity Surveying

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