Currie & Brown is one of the leading International physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.
Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.
The role
Currie & Brown is looking for a director of Quantity Surveying to lead our team in Jersey. The successful candidate will be part of a team of quantity surveyors covering all aspects of professional and project-related building surveying across the private and public sector.
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 to promote the company and services to potential new and existing clients, capturing, and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as preferred service provider.
As an associate director / director, your responsibilities will include:
- Providing accurate cost advice and reporting
- 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 successful project completion; 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
- Managing a quantity surveying team and mentoring junior members of the team
- Contributing to achieving the targets of the five-year plan and taking responsibility for P&L of cost management services
- Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
- Networking with clients and attending relevant events to promote Currie & Brown in Jersey
- Participating in business development, winning work and fee generation of the cost management service
- Taking a lead role in interfacing with clients and other consultants at all project stages
What skills and attributes are we looking for from you?
- Technical qualification in a construction-related discipline
- Member of a relevant professional organisation
- Technical delivery experience gained within a construction consultancy
- Knowledge of local and national commercial marketplace
- Experience of project delivery in public and private sectors
- Ability to run and deliver significant projects
- Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
- Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive and willing to work in a mutually supportive environment
- A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible
Why 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.
We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful work force.
We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.