MEP Quantity Surveyor

Overview

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Currie & Brown is looking for a quantity surveyor for our Scotland office to work on a wide variety of mechanical & electrical or data centre projects. The successful candidate will support project leaders in delivering a high standard of day-to-day service, achieving successful outcomes for clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Currie & Brown is committed to career development and expects the successful candidate to progress rapidly to senior level and beyond, managing all aspects of their own commissions.

• Applying value management techniques at the outset of a project
• Supporting and managing estimating and cost planning activities, including taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plans and overall development budgets
• Managing and quality checking Bill of Quantities and associated tender documentation production
• Supporting and managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages (including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation) are performed effectively
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
• Producing accurate monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Undertaking value engineering and lifecycle costing
• Negotiating and concluding final accounts
• Taking a lead role in interfacing with the clients’ construction teams and other consultants at all project stages
• Supervising and mentoring junior and trainee members of the team

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) would be ideal
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• Ability to run projects with minimal supervision and attend project meetings independently
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible, with the ability to work on own initiative

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 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 many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

• Not Applicable

• Full-time

• Management, Other, and Consulting

• Construction