Currie & Brown is currently looking for a cost consultant and a senior cost consultant. 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.
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
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
Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
What Youll Get in Return: Comprehensive benefits package, including private medical insurance and enhanced pension
25 days holiday (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus option to buy additional leave
Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
£400 annual healthy living subsidy
Interest-free season ticket loan
Paid professional subscriptions
Clear progression routes and global career mobility
Supportive, inclusive working culture focused on your development
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