Senior Cost Manager – Water/Utilities

Overview

In this role you will lead cost management for UK Infrastructure projects, partnering with clients and Turner & Townsend teams to monitor, forecast and control project costs. You will manage contracts, enable efficient change processes and support value engineering to keep projects within budget. You’ll collaborate across client and contractor teams to deliver KPIs and programme outcomes, shaping commercial strategy and final accounts. This is an opportunity to influence major infrastructure work within a supportive, growth‑driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish professional relationships with clients and project teams
• Administer contracts per project objectives and policies
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion
• Monitor cost variance and contract cash flow, ensuring timely applications
• Collaborate to manage deliverables, KPIs, programme performance, cost control and value engineering
• Manage contract changes to stay within governance and adopt best practice
• Improve forecast and budget accuracy
• Provide commercial knowledge to stakeholders
• Negotiate final accounts
• Commission management as needed

Key requirements

• Excellent communication
• Contract Management (NEC3 preferred)
• Change management
• Cost Management
• Change control
• Valuation
• Procurement
• Estimating
• Pricing
• Governance processing
• Collaborative approaches
• Best for project attitudes
• Sharing best practice
• Line management
• Commission management

• collaborative approach
• strong stakeholder management
• proactive problem solving
• Contract Management (NEC3)
• Cost Management
• Change control

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