Associate Director - Cost Control

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We provide Commercial, Procurement and Cost Management Services to a wide range of clients out of over 110 offices worldwide, operating in various sectors including Defence, Rail, Utilities, Transport, Education, Local Authorities and Health.

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career.

Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director (Cost Control) to join our busy and expanding, Defence team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high‑profile Infrastructure Projects/Programmes. This will be to work on growing our cost capability in the Southwest. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award‑winning Cost Control community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider cost control team and leading experienced cost professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead and develop teams of Cost Control professionals on complex client projects or programmes.
• Drive continuous improvement in cost control (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.
• Develop and maintain relationships with interfacing disciplines including, but not limited to, Finance, Commercial and Project Managers to ensure alignment of project information.
• Drive the implementation, embed and roll‑out of any identified changes to cost control processes.
• Appropriately select, implement, administer, and maintain cost control systems to meet client requirements.
• Mentor the wider Turner & Townsend Cost Controller team, providing support and guidance where required.
• Provide subject matter advice and manage the development of reporting tracking tools, where required, and generate Cost reports on a regular basis, including evaluation of earned value.
• Define how to build and assure project forecast to account for all residual works in the Estimate to Complete (ETC) and the development of the Estimate at Completion (EAC) incorporating required supply chain information.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise for Turner & Townsend and the client in all aspects of Cost Control.
• Present / provide performance recovery recommendations to relevant stakeholders and senior management to support effective decision making.
• Support the development of Turner & Townsend Cost Control training material.
• Lead on the preparation and presentation of Communities of Practice/Interest and Knowledge Shares.
• Support the National Cost Control Lead in delivering Cost Control nationally.
• Support Turner & Townsend’s recruitment activities to grow and develop the project controls capability.

• Extensive experience in a Lead Cost Control role with management responsibility.
• Extensive experience of working…