Senior Cost Consultant
16 hours ago
Stirling
About The Role Currie & Brown is currently looking for an associate cost consultant to join our Edinburgh 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. These include: • A multi-phased redevelopment of Aberdeen's city centre and beachfront, • A £450 million exemplar major net zero acute hospital, • A multimillion-pound commercial and residential development in Edinburgh's city centre, • A major £40 million expansion of Leith's harbour, • A £26 million incubator research facility for a university and local authority client, • A new high-quality £30 million teaching facility for a Russell Group university, • 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, • 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 JBRP1_UKTJ