MEP (M&E) Cost Consultant

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.
The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.
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 seeking talented professionals to join our London-based M&E team
As a result of continuing success with new clients, existing clients and the business’ ambitious growth agenda, we are recruiting people with the desire to help shape the future and be involved in stimulating and rewarding projects.
Our MEP roles include the full spectrum of cost consultancy and contract administration services. Our people have the opportunity to gain client-facing experience not typically available to MEP cost management professionals.
Your core duties will involve:
Leading the preparation of cost plans and estimates and supporting presentation documents from inception and feasibility stages onwards
Presenting the above, explaining and agreeing approaches to issues around project risks and uncertainties
Leading procurement activities and contract formation
Acting in the role of contract administrator
Handling general project strategy shaping and client interactions
Undertaking the procurement of projects from start to finish including the preparation of tender documentation
Managing work packages post-contract including change control and valuation, progress valuations, cost reports and final accounts
Providing concise and focused cost advice and reporting to our clients
Conducting tender analysis for the purpose of contractor appointments and data capture for benchmarking and future cost plans
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 and liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
Representing and acting as an ambassador for the company in a professional and confidence-inspiring manner; meeting, negotiating, and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
Our roles come with outstanding personal development opportunities, working with the team’s experienced consultants to further candidates’ career ambitions. With the current environmental and carbon initiatives we are fully focused on providing the best and most value adding advice to our colleagues and clients through project delivery and research appointments.
Some examples of our new and existing appointments include:
Cost management and contract administration services for a premium brand retailer on its engineering infrastructure programme. We have helped deliver tens of millions of pounds of work over more than a decade
Cost management of data centre projects within the UK and Europe for technical real estate developers and other recognisable global technology companies
Cost management of several sophisticated landmark acute hospital schemes. Our healthcare team is one of the leading cost and strategic advisory consultants in the UK and have a growing portfolio of appointments all requiring best in class MEP cost management
What skills and attributes are we looking from you?
Technical delivery experience from within the construction industry, ideally consultancy
Pre and post-contract experience including cost planning and procurement
Good technical writing, strong client-facing and communication skills
Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, self-starting, well-disciplined and commercially astute
A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible.
Ability to take on a leadership role as part of personal development planning
NEC experience beneficial
Currie & Brown is one of the world’s leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the management and utilisation of their physical assets, and is differentiated by innovation, expertise, and experience.
With principal offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai, we operate throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East.
Currie & Brown is an equal opportunity employer. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Currie & Brown UK is also proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, which represents a promise by the company that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly.