MEP (Mechanical & Electrical) Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor

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 a senior quantity surveyor for our established and growing Dublin team to work on a wide variety of Data Centre sector projects. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of day-to-day 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. Currie & Brown is committed to career development and expects the successful candidate to rapidly progress to senior level and beyond, managing all aspects of their own commissions.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK, supporting the Dublin team, with travel to Dublin when required.

Your core duties will involve:

• Preparing capital cost estimates
• Assisting in tendering procedures and contract arrangements
• Prepare pricing documents for tender packages.
• Providing advice on tendering procedures
• Draft instructions to tenderers
• Development of tender evaluation criteria
• Drafting of PQQ questionnaires
• Handling queries during tender period
• Commercial evaluation of all tender submissions
• Negotiation with tenderers
• Perform all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification stage, produce bid list, bid analysis, produce bid report, and compile contractual documents.
• Valuing progress on site for interim certificates
• Valuing proposed instructions
• Validating contractors' final account
• Produce monthly post contract cost reports and present to client.
• Provide input into value engineering; negotiate and approve final accounts.
• Provide leadership to junior members of cost management team, when necessary, ensure the delivery on all of accountabilities.
• Identify improvements for cost management procedures, templates, and products, and refer ideas to appropriate line manager.

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you

• Strong experience dealing with M&E systems across high tech, pharma or DC projects or experience with healthcare / public works contracts
• Experience managing estimating and cost planning activities, including ownership and presentation of the final cost plan for projects throughout the design phase and delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
• Ability to conduct reviews of GMP contracts with general contractors.
• Experience with negotiations with mechanical & electrical subcontractors on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.
• Ability to lead commercial meetings.
• Experience in 2D and BIM take off for mechanical and electrical systems critical to Data Centre construction.
• Experience in reviewing and compiling as-built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes.
• Ability to act as part of a team of MEP cost managers, with a team focus on development and growth.
• Firm grasp on quality assurance & quality control.
• Second European Language considered an added benefit.

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour 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 career 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 everyday 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 the Dar Group.

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