Graduate Cost Consultancy

Graduate Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultancy assisting with and undertaking a wide range of instructions across the team on a range of commercial property.

Our Cost Consultancy Graduate Programme will give you exposure, experience, training and support so that, whatever skills and perspectives you bring, your potential will be amplified. The role involves direct client liaison and management, with an emphasis on developing relationships and a network within the sector that will last a career.

Our programme is designed to provide you with everything you need to confidently launch a career in Cost Consultancy, working with our experienced team of Chartered Surveyors of all disciplines on live projects, experiencing day to day challenges of the role and being given as much responsibility as your own skills will permit. This gives you an unparalleled breadth of opportunities and allows you to explore a range of experience in the commercial sectors and gaining exposure to Commercial Offices from both a Landlord, Developer and Occupier perspective.

You will join the firm in September 2024, with the aim of completing the graduate scheme and qualifying as a surveyor in November 2026 (RICS Autumn Sitting). This opportunity is open to undergraduates in their final year of a RICS accredited Quantity Surveying degree and postgraduate students who have or who are completing a RICS accredited conversion course or masters.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Business Generation & Fee Income

• Assist in increasing the range, quantity and quality of instructions via business generation to ensure development of the department as a whole.
• Supporting colleagues to seek and develop new business opportunities.
• Monitor all correspondence and enquiries on behalf of others as and when required when they are absent from the office referring to such matters as requiring urgent attention to someone of the authority and experience to deal with them.
• Attend events and actively promote the department and firm amongst clients and professional organisations.
• Understand the need to work commercially to ensure profitability of instructions.
• Maintain and grow existing and new client relationships.
• Begin to develop personal profile within the market.

Professional Instructions

• Cost Consultancy which will include exposure to :-
  • Commercial management
  • Communication and negotiation
  • Conflict avoidance, management and dispute resolution
  • Construction technology
  • Contract administration
  • Contract practice
  • Design economics and cost planning
  • Due diligence
  • Insurance
  • Procurement and tendering
  • Programming and planning
  • Project finance
  • Project feasibility
  • Quantification and costing
  • Risk management
  • Sustainability

Professional Standards

• To communicate fully with all stakeholders concerned to ensure that business is managed in an efficient and professional manner.
• Absorb all aspects of information technology systems particular to the office/department and have an understanding of their broader applications and availability in the division.
• Ability to clearly define the client’s requirements.
• Adhere to all deadlines set for the completion of work.
• Ability to manage own diary and time requirements.
• Maintain confidentiality in respect of all work undertaken by the Department and to be aware of what is likely to be sensitive information.
• Liaise with client in a professional and proactive way.
• Ensure consistently high level of professional conduct.
• Comply with Best Practice Procedures at all times.

Team

• Contribute actively to the team spirit of the department.
• Act in a collaborative manner at all times.
• Interact positively with all team members and work with them in a professional and courteous manner at all times, ensuring we maintain a culture of tolerance and respect.
• Support the wider team with professional advice as and when required.
• Liaise with members of other departments and get to know the individuals and their markets both for the purpose of obtaining information and also to look for opportunities for cross selling of business.

Systems & IT competence

• Excel
• AutoCAD or other measurement software
• Microsoft Word
• Excel

Eligibility Criteria

• RICS accredited Quantity Surveying degree
• Do you have min C/ 4 and above in GCSE Maths & English language?    
• 1 A levels / or equivalent e.g Scottish Highers, baccalaureate
• 2.1 degree or higher (actual or predicted)
• The successful candidate must, by the commencement of employment, have an unrestricted right to work in the UK