Cumming Group UK & Europe
Assistant Quantity Surveyor
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Cumming Group
Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across a diverse range of sectors.
We are seeking an Assistant Cost Manager who has experience in working within Residential, Hotel, and Real estate projects. Our project pipeline in this area continues to grow and we are looking for ambitious and enquiring minds to join us and be part of our exciting journey of growth and delivery excellence.
As well as those who have direct evidence of skills and involvement on these types of projects as a Cost Manager, we would be interested in talking to those from a Real Estate and Consultancy backgrounds and are seeking a new challenge.
Essential Duties & Responsibility
- Provide support for day-to-day delivery responsibility for small to medium projects, support larger projects/programmes of work and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision
- Support knowledge capture, sharing, and innovation. Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level
- Prepare budget estimates, cost plans, and client reports
- Support risk and value management
- Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports, and attendance at project meetings
- Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation
- Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality
- Support the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard
- Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance
- Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable
- Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process
- Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader
- Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements
- Support evaluation of tenders, contractor selection, and contract documentation
- Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement
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Knowledge & Skills Required
- Deliver results in a client-facing role including
- Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team
- Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery
- Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges
- Commitment to outperforming client expectations
- Support stakeholder management
- Demonstrate a high degree of integrity
- Dealing with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment
- Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines
- Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate, and manage teams including the supply chain
- Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organize workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director
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Preferred Education and Experience
- Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying, or other RICS accredited degree
- Working towards MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience
- Developed understanding of leadership techniques and ideally some formal leadership training
- 3+ years’ experience
- Experience in the Real Estate sector is desirable
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters
- Experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC
- Basic pre and post-contract technical cost management skills
- Good core technical skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Good IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point
- Developing interpersonal skills with both client and Staff
Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion, and belief.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.
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