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 – what is it we would like you to do?
Currie & Brown is looking for a lifecycle cost specialist (Senior Consultant/Associate/Associate Director) to support the delivery of our lifecycle and whole-life cost service within our advisory services team.
This is an opportunity to join a small, growing team working in construction, infrastructure and business change projects and programmes.
We work with leading clients in a wide variety of sectors including health, commercial, infrastructure, education and defence. Each of our projects is different but our goal is the same – to help our clients achieve successful outcomes. We work hard to understand the needs of our clients and to develop bespoke solutions and specialist advice – from helping them to set priorities and direction to supporting improved decisions in sustainability, lifecycle costing and risk throughout the project lifecycle.
The role is primarily focused on lifecycle costing but will interface closely with our other advisory services. The successful candidate will support project leaders within advisory in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, getting involved in a diverse mix of projects, developing develop services and solutions and building client relationships.
Your core duties will involve:
- Providing specialist lifecycle cost advice and optimisation of whole-life costs and performance for a range of projects and assets, including whole-life/ lifecycle cost models and options appraisals tailored to projects and clients
- Providing whole-life cost outputs and data to support economic and business cases
- Providing LCC advise and models for PPP/PFI projects
- Providing bespoke advice to clients including research and data gathering, quantitative analysis (including lifecycle, energy and risk models), data analysis and evaluation, facilitation of workshops
- Taking ownership of work delivery and producing high-quality technical outputs to clients including models, presentations, reports and datasets
- Identifying and contributing to business development opportunities where appropriate as well as input on proposal and bid development
- Provide mentorship to junior members of the team and support with their professional development
- Support the development and growth of the life cycle team, supporting with recruitment and training initiatives
- Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:
- Minimum 2:1 at degree level, in any discipline
- Proficient in MS Office suite (particularly Excel), with general strong IT skills
- Consultancy/commercial experience with specialist expertise in whole-life and lifecycle costing in construction and/or infrastructure.
- Experience across a breadth of sectors in construction, including Currie & Brown’s core sectors: Healthcare, Higher Education, Infrastructure and Technology
- Experience in handling numbers, including large volumes of data in the preparation of models, reports and economic appraisals
- Experience in supporting and/or managing projects and associated profitability
- Demonstrable ability to take ownership of tasks and work with overlapping/tight deadlines, delivering outputs in an accurate and timely manner
- Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external), and commercially astute with strong presentation skills
- Ability to review information quickly and efficiently, taking initiative and making decisions using an appropriate mix of analysis and judgement
- Comfortable working in teams, developing more junior members of staff, sharing knowledge and skills and networking within the business as well as externally.
- Energetic and dynamic, capable of delivering to plan but also able to react flexibly to changing circumstances
- Ability to introduce innovative approaches that can be used to improve performance, reduce costs, increase quality, improve business processes and provide clear rationale and supporting data to justify solutions