Project Cost Consultant - Property Scotland

Arcadis; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consultancy firm is seeking a Project Cost Consultant to join their Property team, managing significant property schemes across Scotland. Candidates should ideally be RICS qualified or nearing qualification. This role involves feasibility studies, cost planning, procurement advice, and leading projects, offering flexible working in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience on major building projects £1m–10m+ in value.
• Ability to influence and lead stakeholders and third parties.
• Experience in taking a project from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Assist with feasibility studies.
• Estimate and cost plan, including producing and presenting final cost plan.
• Tender and procure construction works.
• Deal with post-contract cost variances.

Skills

Self-management

Prioritisation skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

RICS accreditation or in final assessment

Job description

Project Cost Consultant - Property Scotland

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 36,000 people in more than 70 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are seeking to appoint an ambitious Project Cost Consultant to join our Property team in the Glasgow or Edinburgh office, delivering significant property schemes throughout Scotland and the North of England. Ideally you will be recently RICS qualified or on your route to do so.

Our team is involved in delivering some of the region's largest and most exciting building projects in the residential, commercial office, and sports and leisure sectors, ranging from £20m to £1bn+ in value. We have a fantastic pipeline, which we are recruiting for, and these projects will allow you to grow as an individual and provide the opportunity to work on the best projects and industry‑leading clients in the region.

Working with an established and highly successful team, your role will be to provide competent and professional quantity surveying support on a number of our large schemes, with the opportunity of leading your own schemes. You will work closely with Senior Partners and Directors and gain great exposure to future development opportunities.

This role is for flexible working, with an encouraged working pattern of between the office and home to allow collaboration with the team.

Role accountabilities

• Assist with feasibility studies
• Estimate and cost plan, including producing and presenting final cost plan
• Tender and procure construction works, providing procurement advice to clients
• Deal effectively with post‑contract cost variances and change control processes
• Make personal responsibility for cost checks and valuations on larger projects, ensuring timely and accurate cost checking and valuation
• Produce monthly post‑contract cost reports and present them to the client
• Input into value engineering
• Negotiate and agree final accounts
• Interface with the client and other consultants at all project stages
• Have strong knowledge of the JCT contracts

Qualifications & experience

• RICS accredited surveyor or approaching final assessment
• Commercial experience on major building projects £1m–10m+ in value
• Demonstrate self‑management and prioritisation skills to work in a fast‑paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including influencing and leading stakeholders and third parties
• Capable of working with the project lead to take a project from inception to completion

Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximise the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

Senior level: Mid‑Senior level.

Employment type: Full‑time.

Job function: Other.

Industry: Professional Services.