Cost Manager

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 Cost Managers/Sr. Cost Managers for our client locations in the Bay area. The successful candidate will support project leaders by providing construction expertise of our core services, including estimation, procurement, cost planning and more. These functions should be performed while generating a high standard of service, 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.

We offer a fun and challenging environment where your skillset will grow. Qualified candidates should also possess a strong desire to lead, mentor and develop a successful team.

Your core duties will involve:

Developing and maintaining MEP scope budgets and tracking project costs throughout the life of projects

Undertaking change management, estimating impacts of changes and contingency drawdown

Developing WBS and cost breakdowns

Developing risk register and tracking impacts

Conducting MEP cost estimating through various design stages using experience, historical data and parametric ratios

Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively

Ensuring correct production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client

Value engineering and lifecycle costing

Undertaking payment recommendations and reviewing contractor/consultant invoices

Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages

Where appropriate, leading a cost management team and ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related technical field

A minimum of five (5) years’ cost management experience

Experience working on large complex tech manufacturing or industrial projects preferred.

Quantity surveying background preferable

Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of products (MS Word, Excel, Project)

Ability to self-manage, requiring minimal supervision

Good time management, communication, and interpersonal skills

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritize for the long term and honor 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 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 every day 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 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.