Senior/Associate Cost Consultant

Currie & Brown Group Limited; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown Group Limited is seeking an associate cost consultant for their Glasgow office. The ideal candidate will support project leaders in delivering high-value projects while enhancing service delivery. Core duties involve providing accurate cost advice, managing projects, and maintaining communication with clients.

Successful candidates should have a BSc in quantity surveying, MRICS membership, and experience in private commercial sectors. They will work on significant projects, including major developments across Scotland.

Qualifications

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent.
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).
• Experience in the private commercial sector preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting.
• Deliver projects and professional assignments.
• Maintain effective communication for project completion.

Skills

CostX or other Cost Planning software

Sustainability and Data Skills

Private commercial sector experience

Education

BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent

Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)

Job description

Currie & Brown is currently looking for an associate cost consultant to join our Glasgow office. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing, and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider working across a range of projects such as large commercial new builds for blue chip clients, private residential, towers and national government frameworks etc.

Currie & Brown’s quantity surveying team is one of the largest in Scotland and is currently working on a wide variety of notable projects which the successful candidate could get involved in.

• A multi-phased redevelopment of Aberdeen’s city centre and beachfront
• Multimillion-pound commercial and residential development in Edinburgh’s city centre
• Major £40 million expansion of Leith’s harbour
• £26 million incubator research facility for a university and local authority client
• New high-quality £30 million teaching facility for a Russell Group university

Your core duties will involve:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Private commercial sector experience – ideally experience gained from some of the following: offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out and refurb
• Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software
• Sustainability and Data Skills i.e. carbon assessment and Power BI
• Pre and post-contract experience