Associate Quantity Surveyor - Data Centre
- Full-time
Company Description
At WT, we empower our clients to grow, inspiring confidence through our independent cost management and advisory services.
Operating for 75 years, our expertise spans the building, construction, and infrastructure sectors.
We support our clients with an award-winning team of specialists in, ,,, and .
With a global footprint covering Australia, New Zealand, Asia, India, Middle East, North America, Africa, the UK and Europe, our clients can tap into the collective thinking of over 2,000 of the best people in the industry, operating from over 70 offices.
Job Description
The WT Data Centre team continues to grow nationally, with high-profile recent engagements landing with multi-national technology clients, leading to a new, Associate Quantity Surveyor role in the Brisbane Data Centre team.
With major projects underway and more in the pipeline, we’re on the lookout for an experienced Associate (or Senior Quantity Surveyor) that has ideally managed Data Centre projects or other similar mission-critical and complex sites.
Ideally those with a real cost-engineer lens and those with electrical and mechanical backgrounds are highly sought.
This role will perform various traditional quantity surveying functions including estimating, planning and cost management, cost monitoring, and accurate and timely financial reporting whilst exercising sound financial acumen with a key focus on proactively maximising value for our clients.
This role is responsible for:
- Complex Cost Engineering on mission-critical projects
- 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
- 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
- Relevant tertiary qualification in any of the following areas: Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Electrical, Mechanical or Civil Engineering
- Extensive experience in cost estimating and planning software/ Cost X
- Extensive experience in MEP and heavy services projects
- Demonstrated track record of winning and managing major projects
- Experience managing mission-critical projects or similar projects of complex design
Additional Information
At WT, in addition to your competitive salary we offer many perks including:
- Bi-annual bonus scheme
- Paid professional memberships- support in gaining and supporting your membership costs for RICS and AIQS
- Wellbeing days- time to focus on your wellbeing and the community
- WT’s balanced way of working
- When you're working from the office, you'll be in an award-winning office fit-out which supports flexible and activity based working in a prime location with amazing views
If you're keen to and advance and broaden your career within the construction industry then this could be a great opportunity for you.
Apply now to join an international cost consultancy at the forefront of NSW's major construction across all sectors: commercial, retail, residential, mixed use, infrastructure and health within our Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Penrith offices.
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📌 Associate Quantity Surveyor Data Centre
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