Cost Consultant

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?

This role offers direct client exposure, hands on learning, and the opportunity to work across estimating, benchmarking, OFCI procurement and post contract tasks. Ideal for ambitious QSs seeking rapid career progression.

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
• Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software
• Sustainability and Data Skills i.e. carbon assessment and Power BI
• 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 Our Dublin Office

We manage the entire lifecycle of data centre projects - RIBA Stages 0-5 - including front end estimating, benchmarking, cost modelling, OFCI procurement, and full post contract cost control.

All team members, regardless of level, receive strong client exposure, regularly presenting cost plans and reports directly to senior stakeholders within the developer's organisation.

Our pipeline stretches well beyond five years, driven by long standing hyperscale programmes and multiple new private developer clients. This results in exceptional stability, continuous career progression, and the opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding team.

The Dublin office is young, diverse, and collaborative, with strong social culture, hybrid working, and direct access to senior leadership.

With both CSA and MEP teams under one roof - supported by multiple offices across EMEA - we offer a truly integrated technical environment, giving staff the chance to specialise, broaden their expertise, and work on some of the most complex, high tech assets in Europe.