Assistant Quantity Surveyor

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Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.

We are seeking an Assistant Cost Manager who has experience in working within Residential, Hotel, and Real estate projects. Our project pipeline in this area continues to grow and we are looking for ambitious and enquiring minds to join us and be part of our exciting journey of growth and delivery excellence.

As well as those who have direct evidence of skills and involvement on these types of projects as a Cost Manager, we would be interested in talking to those from a Real Estate and Consultancy backgrounds and are seeking a new challenge

Essential Duties & Responsibility

Provide support for day-to-day delivery responsibility for small to medium projects, support larger projects/programmes of work and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision
Support knowledge capture, sharing and innovation. Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level
Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports
Support risk and value management
Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings
Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation
Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality
Support the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard
Undertake service delivery is in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance
Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable
Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process
Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader
Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements
Support evaluation of tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation
Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships
Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement

Knowledge & Skills Required

Deliver results in a client facing role including
Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escal**ate** client issues to senior members of the team
Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery
Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges
Commitment to outperforming client expectations
Support stakeholder management
Demonstrate a high degree of integrity
Dealing with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment
Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines
Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director

Preferred Education and Experience

Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree
Working towards MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience
Developed understanding of leadership techniques and ideally some formal leadership training.
3+ years’ experience.
Experience in the Real Estate sector is desirable
Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters
Experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC
Basic pre and post contract technical cost management skills
Good core technical skills
Strong oral and written communication skills
Good IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point
Developing interpersonal skills with both client and Staff

Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief