Cost Engineer

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 Cost Engineer for our client location in Phoenix, AZ. The successful candidate will support project leaders by providing construction expertise of our core services, including estimation, procurement, cost planning and more. These functions should be performed while generating a high standard of service, 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.

We offer a fun and challenging environment where your skillset will grow. Qualified candidates should also possess a strong desire to lead, mentor and develop a successful team.

Your core duties will involve:

• Supporting the development and maintenance of budgets and tracking project costs throughout the life of projects
• Supporting change management, estimating impacts of changes and contingency drawdown
• Reviewing monthly cost reporting and budget reconciliation
• Developing risk register and tracking impacts
• Handling cashflow forecasting and monitoring
• Reviewing contractor/consultant invoices
• Developing WBS and cost breakdowns
• Supporting client account management
• Communicating details effectively to internal and external stakeholders including presentations
• Establishing new and maintaining existing project controls tools

   What skills and attributes are we looking for from you

• Bachelor’s degree in construction engineering, quantity surveying, or other relevant degree
• Minimum of five years’ experience in a cost engineer or project controls role on large complex construction projects
• Background in oil and gas, energy projects, industrial process, or pharmaceutical projects is required
• Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)
• Proficient using Primavera P6 software
• Good time management, communication and interpersonal skills
• Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritize for the long term and honor 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 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.

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.