Senior Cost Consultant

CURRIE & BROWN UK LIMITED; Paisley; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Currie & Brown invites an associate cost consultant to join our Glasgow office. You will support project leaders with high-quality delivery, assist with cost management, and help share knowledge across projects across notable schemes in Scotland.

Ideal candidates hold a BSc in Quantity Surveying with MRICS and demonstrable private commercial sector experience, including offices, residential, and major projects, using CostX and Power BI for carbon assessment and data insights.

Qualifications

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent.
• MRICS membership is preferred.
• Private commercial sector experience in offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out or refurb.
• Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software.
• Sustainability and data skills, e.g., carbon assessment and Power BI.
• Contract administration skills.
• Pre and post-contract experience.

Responsibilities

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments.
• Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities as a proactive team player.
• Maintaining effective communication for successful project completion; liaising with managers for financial control.
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision.
• Delivering all outputs accurately and on time.
• Providing support to the team leader in cost management of projects.
• Representing the company professionally; meeting and negotiating with clients.

Skills

Proactive team player

Cost management

Client liaison

Education

BSc in Quantity Surveying

MRICS

Tools

CostX

Power BI

Job description

About The Role

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
• £450 million exemplar major net zero acute hospital
• 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
• £55 million exemplar net zero carbon commercial development at Haymarket

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
• Contract administration skills
• Pre and post-contract experience

About Us

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don't offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.

Why choose Currie & Brown?

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.

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