Senior Quantity Surveyor

Currie & Brown; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international consultancy, Currie & Brown, seeks a cost consultant/senior cost consultant in Plymouth. The role involves providing high-quality cost advice, leading project teams, and managing client relationships. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, the company offers a structured career path and opportunities for international mobility.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Career progression opportunities

Support for international mobility

Qualifications

• Required BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent, MRICS preferred.
• Experience in pre and post-contract management.
• Strong organizational and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Deliver projects and commissions with effective communication.
• Assume a leading role in setting objectives as a team player.

Skills

Proficient CostX

Technical writing

Communication

Commercial acumen

Client-facing skills

Education

BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent

Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)

Tools

Cost Planning software

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Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a cost consultant / senior cost consultant to join our team in Plymouth. 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 sectors such as power, energy, utilities or infrastructure.

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
• ideally Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Experience with NEC contracts
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

Why choose Currie & Brown?

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.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting

• Industries

  Construction

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