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 & Responsibilities:
- Assume day-to-day delivery responsibility for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.
- Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
- Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.
- Provide risk and value management.
- Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings.
- Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation.
- Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
- Manage 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 is in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.
- Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable.
- 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 bid and tender preparation and business development.
- Develop our business; 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 & Skills Required:
- Deliver results in a client facing role including:
- Confidently respond to a client request; 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 & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.
