About The Role 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 currently looking for an associate cost consultant to join 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 preferred service provider working across a range of projects such as large commercial new builds for blue chip clients, private residential, towers and national government frameworks etc. Currie & Browns 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 Aberdeens city centre and beachfront A £450 million exemplar major net zero acute hospital A multimillion-pound commercial and residential development in Edinburghs city centre A major £40 million expansion of Leiths 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 Your core duties will involve: Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships What skills and attributes are we looking for from you 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 Expert level Excel user Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software Sustainability and Data Skills i.e. carbon assessment and Power BI Contract administration skills. Pre and post-contract experience Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute A team player with a can-do attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible About The Company 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 peoples 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 dont 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 are an international industry leader Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the worlds most prestigious projects and for some of the worlds top clients. 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 weactively 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 worlds 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. ADZN1_UKTJ