Senior/Associate Cost Consultant

Consulting & Corporate Strategy
Glasgow
May 15, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Role Overview

Currie & Brown is looking for an associate cost consultant to join our Glasgow office. The role will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, 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.

The quantity surveying team is one of the largest in Scotland and is working on a wide variety of notable projects. The successful candidate could be involved in:

  • A multi phased redevelopment of Aberdeen’s city centre and beachfront
  • Multimillion pound commercial and residential development in Edinburgh’s city centre
  • Major £40 million expansion of Leith’s harbour
  • £26 million incubator research facility for a university and local authority client
  • New high quality £30 million teaching facility for a Russell Group university

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications and Skills

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 offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out and refurbishment
  • Proficient in CostX or other cost planning software
  • Sustainability and data skills, e.g. carbon assessment and Power BI
  • Pre and post contract experience

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