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Khomotso Kgaugelo Masoga

Quantity Surveyor Aspiring Claims Manager
Centurion,GP

Summary

Results-driven professional with expertise in cost estimation, tender administration, claims and variation management, contract administration, and contract closeout in the construction sector. Dedicated to fostering teamwork and adapting to changing project needs to ensure seamless operations and deliver high-quality results in line with contractual obligations. Known for strategic problem-solving and effective communication skills that build strong partnerships and facilitate successful project completion.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Hitachi Power Africa Contracted to Eskom Holding Soc (Pty) Ltd and Steinmuller Africa
06.2008 - 08.2011
  • Contracts Administration (FIDIC)
  • Cost planning, cost analysis and cost controlling.
  • Recorded project costs against budget, investigating and reported on variations to the project engineer/engineering manager.
  • Prepared payment schedules against the project plan and from the commercial terms of contract, ensuring appropriate escalation and timeous invoicing.
  • Provided project cash flow for inclusion in corporate cash flow.
  • Investigated and resolved incomplete payments.
  • Offered administrative support to ensure contract compliance in terms of documentation and correspondence during execution phase.
  • Maintained change register to assist in the management of contract entitlements – extension of time, variations, and applications for payments.
  • Formulated claims/variations and negotiated with the client when required.
  • Assisted the contracts commercial manager and site manager in managing all aspects of subcontracts including costs against budget, preparing payment schedules, ensured compliance, entitlements, claims and determinations, and maintaining correspondence.
  • Assisted in preparation of tender documents to sub-contractors and their adjudication and their management.
  • Advised the project team with regards to contractual and financial matters.

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Eskom Holding Soc (Pty) Ltd and Steinmuller Africa
06.2008 - 08.2011
  • Contracts Administration (FIDIC)
  • Cost planning, cost analysis and Cost controlling.
  • Recorded project costs against budget, investigated and reported on variations to the project engineer/engineering manager.
  • Prepared payment schedules against the project plan and from the commercial terms of contract, ensuring appropriate escalation and timeous invoicing.
  • Provided project cash flow for inclusion in corporate cash flow.
  • Investigated and resolved incomplete payments.
  • Offered administrative support to ensure contract compliance in terms of documentation and correspondence during the execution phase.
  • Maintained the change register to assist in the management of contract entitlements – extension of time, variations, and applications for payments.
  • Formulated claims/variations and negotiated with the client when required.
  • Assisted the contracts commercial manager and site manager in managing all aspects of subcontracts including costs against budget, preparing payment schedules, ensuring compliance, entitlements, claims and determinations, and maintaining correspondence.
  • Assisted in preparation of tender documents to sub-contractors and their adjudication and their management.
  • Advised the project team with regards to contractual and financial matters.

Quantity Surveyor

WSP
07.2023 - Current
  • Assessment of contractor's work inline with the contract
  • Assessment of variation orders
  • Management of variation orders
  • Cost forecast
  • Reporting
  • Application of funds from the board
  • Project close-out
  • Contract administration ( Fidic Yellow Book)
  • The successful execution of this contract is contingent upon a thorough understanding of its terms and effective contract administration. The contractor’s team benefits from the guidance of legal professionals and advocates.

Contract Manager

Taroworx
03.2023 - Current
  • Ensure that the project is administered within the ambit of the contract.
  • Maintain correspondence/ Project Manager’s instruction/variations register.
  • Identify contractual problems and take appropriate action to ensure a satisfactory resolution.
  • Follows up on those problems which demand management attention, to ensure timely response to the client.
  • Prepared letters to clients requesting approvals and interpretations necessary to comply with the provisions of the contract.
  • Ensure that all correspondence received is replied to.
  • Monitor and administer the assigned subcontracts and purchase orders to ensure compliance with contractual terms and conditions.
  • Generate and maintain documentation to negotiate change orders.
  • Priced change orders and follows through to ensure that contractual coverage is received.
  • Monitor subcontracts and purchase orders’ expenditures versus contract cost limitations.
  • Furnish financial information requested by the management concerning the project.
  • Assist in the resolution of contractual and financial matters.
  • Advise project management on commercial issues.
  • Attending project meetings and ensuring that issues raised are attended to.

Quantity Surveyor

TA Ndlovu Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers
08.2022 - Current
  • Produced Estimates
  • Drafted BOQs
  • Priced BOQs
  • Financial Evaluation of Tender documents
  • Produce Schedules of predicted cash flow
  • Produce estimates for proposed, assess, and recommend variations for approval.
  • Produce financial control reports.
  • Valuations for payment certificates
  • Progressive and draft final account(s)
  • Agree final accounts.

Manager Contract Management

Eskom Holding Soc Pty Ltd
10.2019 - 11.2021
  • Contracts (FIDC and NEC3)
  • Reviewed contracts for compliance.
  • Reviewed life contracts to check if the contract, Eskom internal procedures and processes were followed. The review intended to improve contract management and close gaps which were identified.
  • Reviewed completed contracts to check if the contract, processes, and procedures were followed.
  • Reviewed contracts which were declared for dispute or proposed for dispute declaration and advised whether Eskom should negotiate a settlement or refer dispute to the next step i.e., continue with the dispute.
  • Assisted with drafting Eskom’s internal processes and procedures.

Manager Director

Mozweli and Atu Consulting Pty Ltd
02.2019 - 09.2019
  • Drafted procurement policies.
  • Advised on procurement issues

Manager Director

Atu Consulting Pty Ltd
02.2019 - 05.2019
  • Contract (NEC3)
  • Assisted with Contract Management

Contract Manager

Eskom Holding Soc Pty Ltd and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
02.2014 - 03.2018
  • Contract Administration (NEC3)
  • Bid Management including preparation of estimates for the bid.
  • Coordinating all contract submittal and correspondence
  • Prepared letters to clients requesting approvals and interpretations necessary to comply with the provisions of the contract.
  • Reviewed with legal, risk prior to submitting documents for approval.
  • Monitored and administered the assigned contracts and subcontracts to ensure compliance with contractual terms and conditions.
  • Generated and maintained documentation to negotiate compensation events.
  • Prepared compensation events and followed through to ensure that contractual coverage is received.
  • Early warnings – issued/received/managed.
  • Monitored project expenditures versus contract cost limitations.
  • Furnished business and financial information requested by the client concerning the project, as delegated by the project manager.
  • Identified contractual problems and take appropriate action to ensure a satisfactory resolution. Followed up on those problems which demand management attention, to ensure timely response to the client.
  • Advised project manager with contractual matters.
  • Assisted in the resolution of contractual dispute by client.
  • Assisted in the resolution of financial dispute by the client.
  • Project close out

Contract Administrator

De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited – Venetia Mine and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
03.2015 - 10.2016
  • Contract Administration (NEC3)
  • Generated and maintained documentation to negotiate compensation events.
  • Priced compensation events and followed through to ensure that contractual coverage is received.
  • Prepared letters to clients requesting approvals and interpretations necessary to comply with the provisions of the contract.
  • Early warnings – issue/receive/manage.

Procurement Officer

Group Five Power International (Pty) Ltd and WorleyParsons RSA Pty (Ltd)
04.2015 - 07.2015
  • Contracts Administration (FIDIC)
  • Bid Management - pre-award activities for a purchase order including bid preparation, processing queries from bidders, preparation of bid evaluation programmes, evaluation of bids, negotiation, award, and purchase order preparation.
  • Reviews with legal risk before submitting purchase orders to management for approval.
  • Functioned as a part of a negotiating team.
  • Generated and maintained documentation to negotiate variation orders.
  • Priced variation orders and followed through to ensure that contractual coverage is received.
  • Provided commercial assistance to project management.
  • Assessment of Vendor’s monthly invoices.
  • Administrating contract close-out as per the close-out procedures.

Procurement Officer/ Contract Administrator

PetroSA and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
02.2013 - 10.2013
  • Contracts Administration (Standard Contracts for the UK Offshore Oil and Gas Industry)
  • Bid Management - Pre-award activities for sub-consultants and purchase orders including bid preparation, processing queries from bidders, preparation of bid evaluation programme, evaluation of bids, negotiation and award, and subcontract and purchase order preparation.
  • Coordinating contract submittal and correspondence.
  • Generated and maintained documentation to negotiate compensation events.
  • Priced compensation events and followed through to ensure that contractual coverage is received.
  • Drafted subcontracts and purchase orders.
  • Reviewed risk prior to submitting subcontracts/purchase orders to management for approval.
  • Functioned as a part of a negotiating team.
  • Monitored and administered the assigned subcontracts and purchase orders to ensure compliance with contractual terms and conditions.
  • Generated and maintained documentation to negotiate change orders.
  • Priced change orders and follows through to ensure that contractual coverage is received.
  • Drafted contracts change orders and amendments.
  • Assess change orders and give recommendations to the project director.
  • Prepared letters to clients requesting approvals and interpretations necessary to comply with the provisions of the contract.
  • Monitored subcontracts and purchase orders’ expenditures versus contract cost limitations, preparing letter notification to clients concerning contract cost limitations and requirements for additional funds.
  • Prepared project contract documents for acceptance and followed through to ensure acceptances are signed by the client.
  • Furnished business and financial information requested by the client concerning the project, as delegated by the project manager.
  • Identified contractual problems and took appropriate action to ensure a satisfactory resolution. Follows up on those problems which demand management attention, to ensure timely response to the client.
  • Closed Out Project

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Sasol Synfuels (Pty) Ltd and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
09.2011 - 08.2012
  • Contracts Administration (NEC3)
  • Monitored and reported on the assigned contract in terms of cost, schedule, and progress.
  • Prepared bills of quantities.
  • Cost planning, cost analysis and Cost-controlling.
  • Reviewed and validated submitted compensation events, invoices, and schedule of installed quantities and equipment against the contract, scope, and drawings.
  • Managed compensation events.
  • Assisted in ensuring all documentation associated with the contract has been issued to the construction team.
  • Assisted in ensuring administration information between the contracts vendors/contractors and the construction team is being implemented, maintained, and updated during the project.
  • Received/ issued and managed early warnings, contractual responses.

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Eskom Holding Soc (Pty) Ltd and Pangaea WorleyParsons
01.2006 - 01.2008
  • Contract Administration (NEC 2)
  • Prepared estimates
  • Prepared tender documents.
  • Prepared financial evaluation of tenders.
  • Formed part of the negotiations team for contract terms and prices.
  • Assisted the procurement team with the formulation of procurement strategy for contractors/Supplier.
  • Prepared pro-active estimates for proposed compensation events.
  • Assessed compensation events.
  • Managed compensation events.
  • Assisted in the resolution of contractual claims by contractor.
  • Assisted in the resolution of financial claims by the contractor.
  • Prepared documents for the tender committee for acceptance.
  • Advised project to manage on commercial issues.
  • Established and maintained a financial control system.
  • Prepared cost report including cash flows forecast.
  • Prepared final account.

Junior Quantity Surveyor

Mahlati Liebetrau Quantity Surveyors
01.2004 - 01.2006
  • Contract Administration (JBcc)
  • Prepared estimates
  • Prepared tender document including the bills of quantities/measuring drawings.
  • Prepared financial evaluation of tenders.
  • Reviewed drawings for compliance with approved budget.
  • Prepared pro-active estimates for proposed variation orders.
  • Assessed variation orders.
  • Prepared cost report including cash flow.
  • Prepared monthly valuation certificate for the principal agent/project manager.
  • Prepared final accounts.

Junior Quantity Surveyor

Baloyi Quantity Surveyors
01.2002 - 01.2004
  • Assistant to all Quantity Surveyors in the Company

Education

Bsc Quantity Surveying -

University of Pretoria

Bsc Quantity Surveying (Hons) - undefined

University of Pretoria
Paused

JBcc series suite of contracts, Applied Fundamentals of Project Management Programme, Fidic Yellow Book for Contractors, Fidic Contract Documents

Courses attended

Skills

Contract Management

Coursework

  • JBcc series suite of contracts
  • JBCC Series 2000 Seminar (Course offered by JBcc)
  • Applied Fundamentals of Project Management Programme (Course offered by Pangaea)
  • Fidic Yellow Book for Contractors (Course offered by Binnington Copeland and associates)
  • Fidic Contract Documents (Course offered by Binnington Copeland and associates)

Known As

Khomotso

Personal Information

  • Ethnicity: African
  • Gender: Female
  • Nationality: South African

Timeline

Quantity Surveyor - WSP
07.2023 - Current
Contract Manager - Taroworx
03.2023 - Current
Quantity Surveyor - TA Ndlovu Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers
08.2022 - Current
Manager Contract Management - Eskom Holding Soc Pty Ltd
10.2019 - 11.2021
Manager Director - Mozweli and Atu Consulting Pty Ltd
02.2019 - 09.2019
Manager Director - Atu Consulting Pty Ltd
02.2019 - 05.2019
Procurement Officer - Group Five Power International (Pty) Ltd and WorleyParsons RSA Pty (Ltd)
04.2015 - 07.2015
Contract Administrator - De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited – Venetia Mine and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
03.2015 - 10.2016
Contract Manager - Eskom Holding Soc Pty Ltd and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
02.2014 - 03.2018
Procurement Officer/ Contract Administrator - PetroSA and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
02.2013 - 10.2013
Senior Quantity Surveyor - Sasol Synfuels (Pty) Ltd and WorleyParsons RSA (Pty) Ltd
09.2011 - 08.2012
Senior Quantity Surveyor - Hitachi Power Africa Contracted to Eskom Holding Soc (Pty) Ltd and Steinmuller Africa
06.2008 - 08.2011
Senior Quantity Surveyor - Eskom Holding Soc (Pty) Ltd and Steinmuller Africa
06.2008 - 08.2011
Senior Quantity Surveyor - Eskom Holding Soc (Pty) Ltd and Pangaea WorleyParsons
01.2006 - 01.2008
Junior Quantity Surveyor - Mahlati Liebetrau Quantity Surveyors
01.2004 - 01.2006
Junior Quantity Surveyor - Baloyi Quantity Surveyors
01.2002 - 01.2004
University of Pretoria - Bsc Quantity Surveying (Hons),
- , JBcc series suite of contracts, Applied Fundamentals of Project Management Programme, Fidic Yellow Book for Contractors, Fidic Contract Documents
University of Pretoria - Bsc Quantity Surveying,
Khomotso Kgaugelo MasogaQuantity Surveyor Aspiring Claims Manager