Senior Cost Consultant
Currie & Brown
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 teamsand other consultants at all project stages
- Supervising and mentoring junior and trainee members of the team
- Assisting in the marketing and development of Currie & Brown in the Irish market
- BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
- Chartered Membership of the Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland
- Pre and post-contract experience in the Republic of Ireland, preferably in the healthcare or residential sector
- Experience in working with GCCC and RIAI forms of contract
- 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