Senior Quantity Surveyor

At WT, we empower our clients to grow, inspiring confidence through independent advice and inventive thinking to create sustainable value across all aspects of the built environment.

We are a leading international project advisory firm with more than 75 years of multi-sector experience.  

Our clients can tap into the collective thinking of over 2,000 of the best people in the industry, operating from 70+ offices throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia, India, Middle East, North America, Africa, the UK and Europe.  

In New Zealand, we support our clients across property, construction and infrastructure with an award-winning team of 80+ specialists in cost management and quantity surveying, advisory and project delivery.

About the role: 

We’re on the lookout for a qualified and experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to work within our expanding Wellington QS team.

Leading and supporting across multiple sectors, this role will perform full quantity surveying functions for our specialist infrastructure and commercial projects. You will have the opportunity to work on exciting, large-scale legacy projects with no two days being the same. We have the cool projects, we need more hands on deck!

This role is responsible for:

• Liaising with clients, architects, and main contractors


• Identifying and facilitating new business opportunities


• Master plan and feasibility budgets


• Cost checking of developing design


• Value engineering


• Tender evaluations and analysis


• Contract negotiations


• Cash flow projects


• Procurement


• Cost reporting


• Evaluation of variations


• Payment Recommendations


• Final account reporting


• Claims preparation, presentation, negotiation and settlement of claims


• Investment analysis


• Formulating and implementing benchmarking processes to improve the consistency, accuracy and time to prepare cost models and plans

Qualifications

7+ years project experience 

Relevant tertiary qualification in Quantity Surveying

Extensive experience in cost estimating and planning software/ Cost X

Demonstrated track record of winning and managing major projects

Additional Information

• At WT, in addition to your competitive salary, we offer many perks including:


• Annual bonus scheme


• Southern Cross medical insurance


• Paid professional memberships- support in gaining and supporting your membership costs for RICS or NZIQS


• WT’s balanced way of working- to optimise work according to where and how employees work best and enhance employee experience and wellbeing, whilst boosting organisational outcomes and setting a foundation for future growth


• When you're working from the office, you'll be in a newly refurbished office fit-out which supports flexible and activity-based working in a central location

Apply now to join an international cost consultancy at the forefront of New Zealand's major construction across all sectors within our Wellington office.