Senior Construction Cost Consultant / Quantity Surveyor – Los Angeles, CA

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Compensation: $150,000 – $200,000 + competitive benefits including a 401(k) / retirement plan

The Opportunity

HeatherDaniel International (HDi), a construction recruitment specialist, is representing a chartered quantity surveying and project management consultancy that provides full cost, procurement and project management services. The practice aims to be flexible while remaining focused on its clients’ needs, working closely with the project team to achieve value for money in time, cost, quality, flexibility and risk.

Due to continued success, the firm wants to increase its capacity with a Senior Construction Cost Consultant / Quantity Surveyor / Cost Estimator based in Los Angeles. You must have a strong consultancy-sector background. You will work on large projects for one of the most recognised firms in the USA — a progressive practice that invests in experienced people and modern technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Cost advice: Evaluate costs and advise on alternative proposals.
• Contracts: Provide advice on contract arrangements and the conditions under which the building will be constructed.
• Design-team advice: Advise architects and engineers on the cost implications of different construction methods, alternative materials, and the size and quality of the project, so that each element is reconciled with the cost-plan allowance and the overall project stays within budget.
• Tender documents: Prepare tendering documents, including bills of quantities.
• Post-contract: Manage project costs during construction and negotiate final accounts.
• Quality: Follow practice procedures concerning quality assurance.

Requirements

• Track record: Experience working on major projects, with a demonstrable high standard of technical delivery.
• Background: A strong consultancy-sector background.
• Leadership: Experience managing both internal and external project teams.
• Communication: Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to build strong working relationships at all levels.
• Thinking: A strategic thinker, able to convey ideas verbally and in report form to clients, external stakeholders and the design team, and to adapt strategies as priorities change.
• Chartership: A chartership background is beneficial.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $150,000 – $200,000, negotiable for the right candidate depending on experience and qualifications.
• Benefits: A competitive benefits package including a 401(k) / retirement plan.

Next Step

Interviews are being arranged now.

Why candidates choose HDi

We start with you, not with a requisition to fill. The people we place today are often the clients who hire us tomorrow. That only works if we treat the first conversation with care.

We know what a Quantity Surveyor is. We work in verticals — cost, project advisory, claims and dispute, built-environment leadership, and data center and mission-critical programmes — not as a generalist shop that learns your job from a Wikipedia page.

We are honest about salary and fit, even when the answer is no. We do not mailshot your curriculum vitae. We do not share it without your consent. That promise is written in full on our Candidate Charter.

We stay with you from the first call through interview, offer, resignation and start.

A major statewide consultancy in the United States, headquartered in New York, has hired us on a retainer.

We are working with a major international consultancy and have placed nearly forty people with them this year.

Our Candidate Charter: You are a person, not a placement. We are honest on salary and fit. Your curriculum vitae is never shared without your consent. We reply, even when there is no update. We stay with you through the whole move.

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