Associate Director - Cost Engineering - Energy & Natural Resources

Company 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 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience and expertise 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.

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Job Description We have an exciting opportunity for a Cost Engineering Director to join our growing Energy & Natural Resources team. This is a leadership role focused on the delivery of high-quality cost engineering and cost management services across some of the UK's most complex and high-profile capital programmes and portfolios.

Key Responsibilities Working with our clients and delivery partners, you will lead the development and implementation of best-practice cost engineering solutions across projects, programmes and portfolios. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality cost engineering, estimating, forecasting and cost management services across major capital programmes.

Developing and implementing cost management strategies, procedures and governance frameworks that support successful project delivery and investment assurance.

Establishing, maintaining and assuring Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), control budgets, cost baselines and performance measurement frameworks.

Leading the preparation, review and assurance of estimates throughout the project lifecycle, including benchmark assessments, challenge sessions and independent reviews.

Driving robust cost forecasting, trend management, change control and earned value management processes to provide accurate and reliable performance reporting.

Providing strategic cost and commercial insight to clients, identifying risks, opportunities and emerging trends to support effective decision-making.

Ensuring alignment and integration between cost, schedule, risk, scope and commercial management functions.

Leading the development and implementation of cost assurance, governance and reporting processes to support executive and investment decision-making.

Advising clients on industry best practice, digital cost management solutions and innovative approaches to cost engineering and project controls.

Collaborating with project, commercial and supply chain teams to establish cost management requirements across delivery contracts and supplier organisations.

Supporting business case development, investment appraisals and portfolio-level cost performance analysis.

Driving continuous improvement in cost engineering methodologies, tools, systems and data analytics capabilities.

Providing leadership, coaching and mentoring to cost engineering professionals, supporting capability development across the wider team.

Assuring the quality, accuracy and integrity of all cost engineering deliverables and client outputs.

Undertaking line management responsibilities, including performance management, career development and succession planning.

Supporting business development activities, client relationship management and the growth of Turner & Townsend's Cost Engineering capability within the Energy & Natural Resources sector.

Qualifications Skills and Behaviours Demonstrated ability to engage with executive stakeholders, senior leadership teams and client organisations, providing strategic cost advice and influencing key investment and delivery decisions.

Proven leadership capability in developing, managing and inspiring high-performing cost engineering teams across complex projects, programmes and portfolios.

Ability to define, implement and continuously improve cost engineering frameworks, governance arrangements, processes and reporting structures.

Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate complex cost and performance data into meaningful…