Cost Controller

Company Description Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description 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 650 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provide 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 exciting opportunities for Project Controls Engineer in Cost to join our expanding Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on high-profile Infrastructure major projects and programmes. Due to continued growth across the UK water, wastewater and infrastructure sectors, we are seeking experienced professionals to contribute to cost management whilst supporting the wider cost control team.

Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our wider Controls and Performance community.

As a Project Controls Engineer, you will support the Cost Lead in reviewing, developing and implementing processes, procedures and systems for estimating, budgeting, forecasting and controlling project costs. You will help project teams manage expenditure within approved budgets and provide accurate, timely cost information to support informed decisions. Working collaboratively with Project Managers, the wider project controls team, clients and delivery partners, you will coordinate cost data, monitor performance and support monthly reporting and governance.

You will contribute to reliable forecasts of out-turn costs and cash flow, identify potential cost overruns and support appropriate corrective action. You will also help teams apply consistent cost and estimating controls across projects and programmes.

Project Controls Engineers at Turner & Townsend:
Project Controls Engineers focussing on Cost at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes:

Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment

Experience coordinating and assuring cost data from project teams and delivery partners, reconciling reporting inputs and maintaining accurate, consistent cost…