lex van der merwe

cost manager - inland rail - parkes to narrowmine and narrowmine to north star

About

Skills Summary and Key Strengths: * Formal qualification – Registered Quantity Surveyor * Registered Dispute Resolution Adjudicator - BCIPA * Excellent financial/commercial analytical and detailed reporting skills. * Strong teamwork and communication skills. * 10 years experience in traditional quantity surveying on a wide variety of building projects. * 2 years cost engineering experience in the civil engineering industry on the South East Busway and Pacific Motorway Upgrade projects. * 14 years cost engineering and cost control experience in the delivery of capital projects in the oil and gas industry, initially for Caltex & BP (included working on individual projects, portfolio management and plant shutdowns) and the last 5 years on CSG projects, 1 yr with QGC (Contracts & Procurement) and currently with Origin APLNG (Cost Control) * Computer literacy – Excel, Word, MS Access, MS Project, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, SAP, Maximo, Oracle, Prism G2, P3 (basic training only)

Country

australia

City

brisbane

Industry

oil & energy

Skill

project control, procurement, cost management, quantity surveying, construction, cost engineering, cost planning, cost reporting, commercial management, contract management, sap, cost control, project estimation, ms project, value engineering, epc, feasibility studies, microsoft project

Experience

cost manager - inland rail - parkes to narrowmine and narrowmine to north star

snc-lavalin atkins

2019-6 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

senior consultant

logikal projects

2017-4 - 2018-6 · 1 yr 3 mos

lead cost controller

ausenco

2018-7 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

lead cost controller

origin energy

2010-1 - 2015-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

senior quantity surveyor

currie & brown

1999-8 - 2006-1 · 6 yrs 6 mos

* Oil & Gas Sector Cost Engineer * Caltex Refinery * Refinery Performance Improvement Program Jun 2001 * Jan 2006 Infrastructure Sector Cost Engineer * Thiess Contractors * Pacific Motorway Upgrade Project Jan 2000 * May 2001 Cost Engineer * Thiess Contractors * South East Busway Project Aug * Dec 1999

development cost manager

durban city council

1990-1 - 1999-5 · 9 yrs 5 mos

* Responsible for providing full range of QS services on a wide variety of traditional building construction projects for the Durban Metropolitan Council * Cost Manager 1996 - 1999 * Senior QS 1994 -1996 * Junior QS 1990 -1993

associate

currie & brown

2006-2 - 2010-6 · 4 yrs 5 mos

* Oil & Gas Sector Senior Cost Controller * BP Refinery * Capital projects Aug 2008 * Jun 2010 Senior Cost Controller * Caltex Refinery * Diesel Hydrotreater Unit (DHTU2) Project Feb 2006 * Jul -2008

manager - integrated project services

aquenta consulting pty ltd

2010-7 - 2016-8 · 6 yrs 2 mos

* Oil & Gas Sector Senior Quantity Surveyor * Claims Management, Monadelphous Mar 2016 * Jun 2016 Lead Cost Controller * APLNG Project * Process Automation & Telecommunications Jul 2011 * Nov 2015 Contracts Engineer * QCLNG project Jul 2010 * Jun 2011