MEP Quantity Surveyor - #1675101

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

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

Your core duties will involve:

• Conducting cost appraisal studies
• Applying value management techniques at the outset of a project
• Supporting and managing estimating and cost planning activities, to include 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

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) 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 ability to work on own initiative

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 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.