Civil engineer as a Quantity surveyor

Civil engineer as a Quantity surveyor

Civil engineer is a professional engineering branch which deals with the design construction and maintains of the physical and naturally built environment

 A quantity surveyor (QS) is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with construction costs and contracts. Services provided by a quantity surveyor may include: Cost planning and commercial management throughout the entire life cycle of the project from inception to post-completion Value engineering Risk management and calculation Procurement advice and assistance during the tendering procedures Tender analysis and agreement of the contract sum Commercial management and contract administration Assistance in dispute resolution Asset capitalisation Interim valuations and payment assessment Cost management process Assessing the additional costs of design variations Production of company pre-qualification questionnaire  documentation in line with company policies. A quantity surveyor  may be act a billing engineer in a construction site

Job skills required for Billing engineer

1. Communication: This skill means the ability of listening, writing and speaking effectively. For Billing engineer position, this skill is a very critical element which contributes for business success.

2. Planning/Organizing: Supervisor is not only to inspect and mange work but also to make the project, estimate, scheme in detail, deploy the plan and finish it before dead line. One important requirement for this skill is the efficiency means that meets the goal-setting.

3.Flexibility: This skill requires the ability of controlling multiple assignments and tasks in which you can identify their important level then decide which should be done first, which should be last. You also need to adjust the tasks to suit with real condition and assignments.

4. Interpersonal abilities: For a Billing engineer, you have to contact with your boss, staff, customers and others. So the interpersonal abilities are very important. It helps you to keep a good relationship between them and manage your time efficiently.

5. Problem-solving: During working, there are many problems including unexpected issues that requires the ability of control and deal with them quickly and efficiently. It means that being a Billing engineer, when cope with problem, you need to collect information, analyze situation, point out solutions and apply them to solves perfectly in reasonable time.

6. Teamwork: Being a supervisor, to finish the work with highest result you need to work with many group, therefore, the ability of team-working is not an exception. So besides working individually you also can work in group in a professional manner to make sure that the tasks can be competed.

7. Responsibility: It is regular requirement. For position of  Billing Engineer you also come to office on time, work and take responsibilities in given time.

Other related job skills for Billing Engineer

1. Professional/Technical technique: For any position, technical technique is one of requirements to complete the assignment in correct way and high quality. For example, if you are storekeeper, technical technique is the storing/ arrangement.

 2. Soft skills: Beside your professional knowledge you need to have soft skills. These soft skills are critical in complete work individually or in group. It contributes an important role in completion common tasks.

3. Management skills: If you want to be a manger, management will help you equip necessary experience before become a higher position. Therefore, preparing and developing your management skills during working time are critical element you should remember.

The quantity surveyor is the person responsible for figuring out just what a construction project is going to cost. They have other roles too, especially making sure that construction costs and production are managed as efficiently as possible. Quantity surveyors have this title because they prepare a ‘schedule of quantities’ estimates of the material and labour costs. The schedule is also called a cost estimate. Other names for people employed with quantity surveying qualifications include estimator, cost engineer, cost manager, cost analyst, project coordinator, project cost controller and cost planner. Quantity surveyors’ main roles are:  managing the finances for any kind of construction project, whether it’s a house, a high-rise, a bridge, or a tunnel; working to keep the project on time; working to keep the project within the budget; making sure that construction costs and production are managed as efficiently as possible.