Associate Cost Consultant

Currie & Brown is currently looking for an associate cost consultant to join our Glasgow 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.

• A multi-phased redevelopment of Aberdeen’s city centre and beachfront
• £450 million exemplar major net zero acute hospital
• Multimillion-pound commercial and residential development in Edinburgh’s city centre
• Major £40 million expansion of Leith’s harbour
• £26 million incubator research facility for a university and local authority client
• New high-quality £30 million teaching facility for a Russell Group university
• £55 million exemplar net zero carbon commercial development at Haymarket

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