Senior / Associate Cost Consultant

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
• A £55 million exemplar net zero carbon commercial development at Haymarket

 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 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) would be ideal
• Technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy
• Pre and post-contract experience including cost planning and procurement

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 every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.  

We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.

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.