Associate Quantity Surveyor - Cost & Forecasting

Currie & Brown Group Limited; Princeton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown Group Limited in Princeton, NJ seeks an Associate Quantity Surveyor to support project leaders by delivering high standards of service, analyzing costs, and sharing knowledge across projects. You will interface with estimating, procurement, scheduling, finance, and document control to reinforce our client outcomes.

The role requires a degree in construction management or quantity surveying and eight years' experience, with strong cost forecasting, budgeting and risk management

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a directly related field.
• Eight (8) years of experience as a Quantity Surveyor or a related position.
• Alternate Acceptable Education: Highschool diploma/GED.
• Experience estimating costs for materials, labor, and equipment using Unit Cost, historical data, indices, supplier quotes and analysis.
• Experience using software tools to generate detailed cost estimates and reports including percentage of total cost and creating detailed cost breakdown structures (CBS).
• Experience managing project budgets and ensuring financial efficiency through various metrics, including CPI, SPI, ROI, Break-Even Analysis, Cash Flow Analysis.

Responsibilities

• Undertake construction cashflow analysis and project cost reporting and analysis, including interface with estimating, procurement, scheduling, document control and finance/accounting departments when appropriate.
• Assist with implementing cost control, schedule and progress control reporting.
• Monitor cost performance to discover and understand variances from the budget.
• Produce and compile accurate/unbiased cost forecasts at a detailed and summary level.
• Identify and ensure early warning of adverse cost trends so that corrective actions can be taken.
• Forecast the final cost of the project based on the analysis of the actual incurred cost against the agreed budget.
• Participate in business development of new projects for cost consulting.
• Support client account management, monthly invoicing and purchase order management.
• Assist with project cost estimates from conceptual through various stages of project development using experience, historical data and parametric ratios.
• Establish new and maintain existing cost and estimating tools, methods and databases used to produce project estimates.
• Participate in industry benchmarking of project metrics.
• Understand various procurement strategies, participating in the Bidding & Negotiation project stage; reviewing GC trade bid packages for completeness and schedule impacts; participate in GMP negotiations.

Skills

Cost forecasting

Budget management

Cash flow analysis

Cost reporting

Procurement coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or Quantity Surveying

Highschool diploma/GED

Tools

Unit Cost data tools

CBS cost breakdown software

Job description

Currie & Brown Group Limited in Princeton, NJ seeks an Associate Quantity Surveyor to support project leaders by delivering high standards of service, analyzing costs, and sharing knowledge across projects. You will interface with estimating, procurement, scheduling, finance, and document control to reinforce our client outcomes.

The role requires a degree in construction management or quantity surveying and eight years' experience, with strong cost forecasting, budgeting and risk management