About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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 knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
- Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.
- Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.
- Support 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.
- 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 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 evaluation of tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.
- Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships.
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 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.
- Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
- Dealing with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment.
- Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.
- Show good 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.
Skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Good IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Developing interpersonal skills with both client and staff.
Experience Level
- 4+ years’ experience
Education Level
- Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
- Working towards MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.
- Developed understanding of leadership techniques and ideally some formal leadership training.
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
