Our continuing success at winning new clients, expanding services to existing clients and an ambitious growth agenda creates career opportunities for people with the drive to help shape our future and be involved in stimulating and rewarding projects. Our MEP team wins and delivers an exceptionally high volume of work for clients. The roles in scope span the full spectrum of cost consultancy and contract administration services. Our people gain direct client-facing experience not typically available to MEP cost management professionals in traditional roles.
Your core duties will involve:
Leading the preparation of cost plans and estimates and supporting presentation documents from inception and feasibility stages onwards
Presenting the above, explaining and agreeing approaches to issues around project risks and uncertainties
Leading procurement activities and contract formation
Managing the entire post-contract delivery process
Undertaking general project strategy shaping and client handling
Preparing cost plans and estimates
Undertaking procurement of projects from start to finish including preparation of tender documentation
Managing work packages post-contract including change control and valuation, progress valuations, cost reports and final accounts
Providing crisp and focused cost advice and reporting
Conducting tender analysis for the purpose of contractor appointments and data capture for benchmarking and future cost plans
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 and liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
Representing and acting as an ambassador for the company in a professional and confidence-inspiring manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationshipsWhat skills and attributes are we looking for from you:
BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) would be ideal
Technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy
Pre and post-contract experience including cost planning and procurement
Good technical writing, strong client-facing and communication skills
Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, self-starting, well-disciplined and commercially astute
A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible.
Ability to take on a leadership role as part of personal development planning
NEC experience beneficialWhy 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