Currie & Brown
Senior Cost Consultant
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Senior Quantity Surveyor - Edinburgh
Currie & Brown is looking for a senior quantity surveyor for 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 leading commercial sector cost consultant in the region.
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
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Responsibilities will include:
- Preparing cost plans and estimates and contributing to the development of more complex pieces of work under supervision
- Contributing to the preparation of tender documentation
- Undertaking measurement of drawings
- Assisting in the tendering and procurement of contractors for projects
- Monitoring project costs in line with approved budget
- Assisting with the financial reporting, cost management including recommendations and variation assessments for projects in post-contract phase
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Requirements:
- BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
- Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
- Private commercial sector experience – ideally experience gained from some of the following: offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out and refurb
- Good time management and prioritisation skills, delivering quality work within deadlines
- Flexible, ability to adapt to different work practices and demonstrate an appreciation of the wider implications of our clients’ projects
Benefits:
- Competitive package of employee benefits including pension, private healthcare, flexible working, 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional days, £400 a year towards gym/healthy living membership and much more.
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