Post Graduate Building Surveyor in London

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.

We are seeking an Assistant Cost Manager who has experience in working within Residential, Hotel, and Real estate projects. Our project pipeline in this area continues to grow and we are looking for ambitious and enquiring minds to join us and be part of our exciting journey of growth and delivery excellence.

• 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 the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.
• Support risk and value management.
• Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings.
• 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.
• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
• Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.
• Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements.
• Support evaluation of tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.
• Networking and developing client relationships.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
• Dealing with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment.

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

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 IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point.

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.