Quantity Surveyor West

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Yanacocha Water Treatment Plant (WTP):

Located 800 km northeast of Lima, Peru, Yanacocha is South America’s largest gold mine. The WTP Project consists of two of the largest acid water treatment plants in South America (the West one with capacity of 3,000 m3/hour and the East one with 2,700 m3/hour). Early works are currently being performed on site, preparing the permanent platforms and laydown areas for the East and West plants, in addition to the Class 2 estimate, Level 3 schedule and Execution Plan.

Job Summary:

This role will be responsible for supporting the project planning and control team in the estimation, projection and monitoring of project quantities, integrating them into the execution schedule, monitoring of physical progress, control of deviations all with an approach oriented to the fulfillment of deadline and budget goals.

Major Responsibilities:

• Supporting in the preparation of planning and cost data
• Establishing and maintaining the schedule for a discipline or area of the project.
• Developing budgets and work breakdown structures (WBS), including duration estimates, logical sequence of activities and resource requirements.
• Performing cost analysis integrated into the schedule: Earned Value planning, S-curves, cost tracking versus physical progress.
• Identifying critical activities and analyze deviations in costs and deadlines.
• Assisting in the generation and maintenance of schedule reports.
• Collaborating in the development of recovery plans in the face of budgetary or programming deviations.
• Participating in the preparation of monthly management reports (MPR) and performance metrics.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires a bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 6-9 years of relevant experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Works on problems of moderate scope where the analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Developing professional experience, applies company policies and procedures to solve a variety of problems.
• Professional development position within the field.
• Minimal supervision with some latitude for judgment and may assist less experienced team members.

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