The role – what is it we would like you to do?
Currie & Brown is seeking an Associate Director, M&E Cost Management to join our Dublin office. This leadership role will drive the successful delivery of complex public and private sector projects, build trusted client relationships, provide commercial leadership, and support the continued growth of our M&E cost management offering. The successful candidate will champion best practice, mentor team members, and contribute to the firm's reputation for excellence and innovation.
Your core responsibilities will include:
- Leading the delivery of M&E cost management services across a portfolio of projects and clients.
- Providing strategic cost advice, commercial leadership, and accurate reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
- Managing key client relationships and acting as a trusted advisor on commercial matters.
- Leading project teams, setting priorities, and mentoring junior colleagues to support their development.
- Ensuring effective financial control, risk management, and project governance.
- Overseeing the preparation of Bills of Quantities, cost plans, budgeting, tender analysis, bid levelling, and post-contract services.
- Supporting business development activities, identifying opportunities, and contributing to winning new work.
- Representing Currie & Brown professionally and strengthening relationships with clients, consultants, and stakeholders.
What skills and attributes are we looking for?
- BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent qualification.
- Chartered member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) or equivalent professional body.
- Strong experience delivering M&E cost management services within the Irish public sector.
- Detailed knowledge of public procurement processes and PW-CF1 and PW-CF5 contracts.
- Proven experience in cost control, contract administration, and claims management.
- Strong leadership, client engagement, and stakeholder management skills.
- Commercially astute, proactive, and capable of managing multiple priorities.
- A collaborative approach with experience developing and mentoring team members.
- CostX experience preferred.
- Full driving licence.
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 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 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.
With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.
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