Cost Engineer - Project Controls - Energy Projects

Overview

Turner & Townsend is committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients and building trust between stakeholders. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future across real‑estate, infrastructure, and natural resources.

We are recruiting Cost Engineers for our Energy & Natural Resources division to support a growing Transmission and Distribution client. The role is for senior cost engineering experience within a dynamic, supportive team.

As a Cost Engineer, you will manage cost control for projects of varying size and complexity, ensuring accurate cost tracking, reporting, and decision support for key stakeholders.

• Tailor Cost Control approaches to meet the client’s needs and align with best practice.
• Implement, administer, and maintain cost control systems and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts.
• Work with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well‑structured Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
• Develop project Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), aligning the time phasing of budgets against the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to accurately track and control actual costs.
• Map and integrate cost estimates to the WBS, setting the project budget against the correct Work Packages, Planning Packages and Control Accounts.
• Adhere to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management, control and reporting of cost data.
• Lead the production of accruals to ensure Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP) is accurately reflected in a timely manner in the cost data.
• Support the change process by providing cost information for change notes and underpinning forecasts.
• Update project forecasts to ensure comprehensive and aligned Estimate To Complete (ETC).
• Work with the project team to set out and implement cost capture requirements, ensuring appropriate work orders, requisition structure, and Purchase Order alignment.
• Align Purchase Orders with CBS to provide clear Cost Performance Indices at the appropriate level within the project.
• Validate and interrogate supply chain data to assist in accurate cost forecasting and trending, working with the supply chain to understand variances.
• Interact with Management and Leadership to deliver updates on Cost Control within a complex project/programme environment.
• Guide and influence cost control processes on complex projects/programmes and associated reports.
• Demonstrate leadership while developing the technical ability of the delivery and cost control team.

• Professional Project Controls experience specialising in Cost Engineering/Control across the project lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), progress reporting, forecasting and performance reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management and ability to mobilise and inspire a team.
• Ability to make risk‑based decisions where parameters are unclear.
• Experience leading Cost Control Assurance activities in a project performance cadence.
• Familiarity with cost performance reporting and cost forecasting techniques.
• Understanding of how scheduling, risk management, reporting and change control interact with Cost Control.
• BPSS level security clearance or ability to obtain it.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., Association for Project Management, Project Management Institute).
• Desire to work within the nuclear sector (desirable, not required).

Turner & Townsend offers a flexible, supportive working environment that respects work‑life balance. We promote health, productivity and diversity, and encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.

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