Senior Quantity Surveyor/Senior Cost Consultant
Client Side role
Location Cork
Salary – Competitive plus benefits
Our client is a leading consultancy based in Cork working on Pharmaceutical Projects with leading blue chip clients. They are now recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor or Cost Consultant to join their professional team.
Role description:
- To deliver cost and commercial management and contract administration services across Data Centre and Energy Centre developments and other asset classes as required.
- Responsible for delivering the scope of work in line with established controls, and demonstrate significant technical knowledge and experience in this field
- Working as part of and leading a team alongside Associate Director and above team members in the Cost & Commercial Management Team to manage and deliver projects
- Liaising with external contractors and consultants
- Reporting to clients and stakeholders
Role accountabilities:
- Work within established financial systems and budgets to produce reports and forecasts and track budgets, overseeing costing and variances in order to manage and control cost variables
- Deliver a variety of cost projects and assignments or significant components of larger assignments, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
- Provide advice to colleagues on risk management, compliance and associated behaviours, to ensure adherence to client risk and compliance processes
- Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted
- Analyse and review a range of data and documents to collate key themes and trends, using this analysis in conjunction with own knowledge to provide advice and make recommendations to support cost and commercial management decision-making
- Use own knowledge and experience combined with research of industry best practice to analyse existing processes and policies
- Share knowledge and provide insightful recommendations to assist service improvement and innovation
- Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration with the cost management function, and applying technical knowledge to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet cost expectations
- Provide specialist technical advice to senior management on issues relating to cost/commercial management, providing solutions and actively sharing knowledge in order to support successful delivery
- Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities
- Demonstrable understanding of clients key objectives within the appropriate sector
Qualifications & Experience:
- Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team on technically complex Data Centre projects/programme of works typically ranging between €5m to €350m
- Data Centre Cost and Commercial Management experience, with strong MEPH QS knowledge preferable
- Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships
- Experience in managing business relationships at middle-management level
- Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion
- Desirable experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Relevant professional qualification or chartered status
- Safe Pass card holder
If you are interested in this Senior Quantity Surveyor/ Senior Cost Consultant role, Please click apply or contact Michael on 086 210 7555 for further information on this position.
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