Senior Quantity Surveyor

About The Role
Currie & Brown is one of the leading International physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.
 
The Senior Quantity Surveyor within our YOKOHAMA (JAPAN) based team, will be expected to carry out any duties that a person with such qualifications and experience would normally be able to carry out. They will also be expected to perform those duties with care and due diligence and with professional expertise consistent with their qualifications and experience.
 
This role will suit someone who is MRICS qualified QS ideally with experience in Oil & Gas sector and looking to relocate from UK/Australia/abroad to drive their career forward in a diligent and hard working team.
 
The role of the Senior Quantity Surveyor will be to advise, assist, and support MHI in all aspects of the management and administration of subcontractors, especially with regard to contractual interpretation and the resolution of disputes. The Senior Quantity Surveyor shall not give any instruction to any subcontractor or make any agreement with any subcontractor that will be binding on MHI.
 
The duties of the Senior Quantity Surveyor may include, but may not be limited to, the items described below. Such items are specifically in connection with the management and administration of subcontracts, but the Senior Quantity Surveyor may be required to carry out similar duties in connection with contracts with Owners or with other contracts.
 
Qualifications and Experience
 
The head office based Senior Quantity Surveyor will usually:

• Be an Associate or Fellow Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or other equivalent professional body or hold a degree in quantity surveying from an acceptable university.
• Have not less than six years practical experience after qualifying as an Associate or after obtaining a degree.
• Have not less than four years previous international experience, preferably in Japan or with Japanese companies.
• Be proficient in the use of Microsoft computer software
• Be a native English speaker and/or have Japanese as a second language

 
Contract Interpretation
 
Achieving complete familiarity with the terms and conditions of the standard MHI forms of subcontract. Recommending periodic updates to such terms and conditions in order to incorporate the recent experience of MHI, developments in law and modern contractual practice.
 
Identifying the contractual rights and obligations of MHI towards its subcontractors and recommending how those rights can best be exercised and how those obligations can best be met.
 
Identifying the contractual obligations and liabilities of subcontractors towards MHI and recommending ways of ensuring that subcontractors comply with those obligations and liabilities. Recommending remedies if the subcontractors do not so comply.
 
Correspondence Etc.
 
Reviewing correspondence received from subcontractors, advising as to its contractual accuracy and offering advice as to the most effective response.
 
Drafting correspondence to subcontractors including instructions, notices, certificates and the like.
 
Checking draft correspondence and other documents that have been prepared by others, some of which may be of a technical nature, to ensure that the meaning is clear and precise, that they are free from grammatical errors, and that they are contractually accurate.
 
Assisting in the preparation of inquiries to subcontractors and in the preparation of subcontract documents.
 
Back-charges and Liquidated Damages to/from Subcontractors
 
Advising as to the validity of back-charges to subcontractors and assisting in the resolution of any disputes concerning back-charges, including re-appraising the contractual position and re-calculating the back-charges if appropriate.
 
Advising as to the validity of liquidated damages claimed against subcontractors and assisting in the resolution of any disputes concerning back-charges, including re-appraising the contractual position and recalculating the liquidated damages if appropriate.
 
Subcontractor’s Claims
 
Analysing and checking claims for additional time and/or money received from subcontractors in respect of alleged changes, additional work, delays, acceleration, contract ambiguities and the like and preparing replies, defence and counterclaims thereto, reports thereon and assisting in the resolution thereof.
 
Assisting in the settlement of disputed final accounts, particularly with regard to the interpretation of contracts and the contractual rights of the parties.
 
If any dispute with any subcontractor appears to be the subject of a future arbitration or litigation, preparing a written contractual justification of MHI’s position, a detailed history of events, and substantiating evidence.