Job Details:

Company Name: Shield Group Limited

Work location: Auckland

Length of employment: Full time and permanent

Hourly rate: $42 to $56 per hour

Hours: 40 hours per week (Minimum 30 hours guaranteed).

Shield Group Limited located in Auckland is a construction and project management company. Currently we are in need of a Quantity Surveyor to estimate and monitor project costs.

Your duties may include but not limited to:

  • determining construction methods, materials and quality standards, and drafting and interpreting specifications, drawings, plans, construction methods and procedures

  • organising and directing site labour and the delivery of construction materials, plant and equipment, and establishing detailed programs for the coordination of site activities

  • obtaining soil and rock samples at different depths across sites and testing samples to determine strength, compressibility and other factors that affect the behaviour of soil and rock when a structure is imposed and determining the safe loading for the soil

  • studying architectural and engineering drawings and specifications to estimate total costs, and preparing detailed cost plans and estimates as tools to assist in budgetary control

  • monitoring changes to designs, assessing effects on cost, and measuring, valuing and negotiating variations to designs

  • analysing structural systems for both static and dynamic loads

  • designing structures to ensure they do not collapse, bend, twist or vibrate in undesirable ways

  • assessing present and future travel flow patterns taking into account population increase and needs change

  • designing the physical aspects of transportation systems such as highways, railroads, urban transit, air transportation, logistical supply systems and their terminals 

To be successful in this role, you

• A Bachelor or higher qualification in the field relevant to quantity surveying or at least five years relevant work experience is required

• Be a person with a detailed eye for numbers and charts

• Clean police record

• Can pass drug tests

If you are willing to work at Auckland a long-term basis, and have the necessary attributes above, you are welcome to apply for the position by emailing your CV (including contact details and visa status) to us.

Applicants for this position with NZ citizenship or residence visa with relevant work experience and/or qualification will be given preference. Appropriate work visa is required for non-resident/citizen applicants.

 

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