Associate Director - Cost Engineering - Energy & Natural Resources Full-Time

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…