Quantity Surveyor

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 looking for Quantity Surveyors for our client locations in Boise, ID. The successful candidate will support project leaders by providing construction expertise of our core services, including estimation, procurement, cost planning and more.

These functions should be performed while generating a high standard of service, 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.

We offer a fun and challenging environment where your skillset will grow. Qualified candidates should also possess a strong desire to lead, mentor and develop a successful team.

Your core duties will involve :

• Supporting new projects for quantity surveying, cost management and project management
• Providing reasoned advice on complex matters, understanding when to escalate matters to superiors
• Supporting RFP responses, forecasting resources needed for proposals, preparing proposals and leading negotiations
• Supporting client account management, monthly invoicing, purchase order management and reviewing contractual terms
• Supporting and preparing project cost estimates from conceptual through various stages of design using experience, historical data and parametric ratios
• Participating in industry benchmarking of project metrics
• Supporting and providing cost forecasting and cost control, managing contingencies and reporting to stakeholders
• Supporting change order and claims review, including review and recommendation of entitlements in accordance with the contractual terms and conditions
• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• 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, construction management or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), or equivalent preferred
• A minimum of eight years’ technical experience delivering large complex projects
• Extensive knowledge of MEP systems
• Pre- and post-contract experience
• Working knowledge of industry-standard software, such as planning and scheduling and cost management applications
• Good technical writing, client-facing, and communication skills
• Well-organized, 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 You

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritize for the long term and honor 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.

We don’t 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 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 we actively 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 world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Sidara.

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.