Senior Quantity Surveyor in Edinburgh

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 diverse range of sectors.

Essential Duties networking and developing client relationships.

Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.

Administer change control processes for the services we provide.

Provide advice on procurement and contracts.

Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.

Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.

Assist in providing leadership to the staff, where required.

Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.

Assist in mentoring and coaching team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the Practice and development of their career.

Knowledge as well as understanding 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.

Support stakeholder management.

Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.

Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.

Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.

Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.

Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.

Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.

Preferred Education and

Experience: Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.

MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.

Some formal leadership development training. 5+ years’ experience.

Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.

Good experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC.

Good pre and post contract technical cost management skills.

Good core technical skills.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

Strong IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

Developing interpersonal skills with both clients and staff.

Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.

Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.

An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.

Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.

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