Quantity Surveyor

About Cumming Group

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 a diverse range of sectors.

Since opening our doors in 1996, Cumming Group has grown to 50+ offices globally and is now home to more than 2,500+ team members. Our project and cost-management services are specifically tailored to each client's needs and add meaningful value at every step of a project's development.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• 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
• Undertake contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings
• Prepare 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 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
• File 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

Client-facing delivery:

• Confidently respond to client requests and understand when to escalate 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

Stakeholder and team management:

• Support stakeholder management
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity
• Deal 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
• Start 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
• 4+ years' experience
• Developed understanding of leadership techniques and ideally some formal leadership training
• 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, PowerPoint
• Developing interpersonal skills with both client and staff

Equal Opportunities

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.

Cumming Group recruits, hires, trains and promotes Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to age, sex, race (including colour, nationality, ethnicity or national origin), religion or belief, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave or any other protected characteristic under UK and European law. All such decisions are based on individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.

Note for Recruitment Agencies

We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match.