Cost Engineer – Project Controls – Energy Projects

Overview

In this role you drive cost control across a programme of works for a nuclear-focused client within Turner & Townsend’s Energy & Natural Resources division. You lead cost management for multiple projects or a single complex programme, delivering reliable data to inform management decisions and ensure on-time, on-cost delivery. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align budgets, forecasts, and change processes, contributing to a sustainable and high-performance project delivery culture.

Pay / Benefits

• great place to work
• flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer
• inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Tailor cost control approaches to client needs and align with best practice
• Administer cost control systems to track budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts
• Collaborate with Integrated Project Team to establish PMB and support change control
• Develop CBS and align budgets with WBS to track actual costs
• Map cost estimates to WBS and set budgets for WPs and control accounts
• Adhere to NEC or FIDIC processes for cost data management and reporting
• Lead accruals to reflect ACWP accurately and timely
• Support change process with cost information for forecasts
• Update forecasts for ETC and ensure cost capture requirements (WO, PO, etc.)
• Align POs with CBS to clarify Cost Performance Indices at project level
• Validate supply chain data for forecasting and trend analysis
• Interact with management to deliver updates on Cost Control in a complex project/programme
• Demonstrate leadership in developing cost control capability within the team

Key requirements

• Professional Project Controls experience in Cost Engineering/Control across project lifecycles
• Strong communication and leadership capabilities; ability to influence, coach and develop teams
• BPSS clearance eligibility
• Member of a professional body (e.g., APM, PMI)
• Familiar with cost performance reporting and forecasting techniques
• Experience leading Cost Control Assurance activities
• Understanding of Scheduling, Risk Management, Reporting, Change Control as they relate to Cost Control
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Risk-based decision making with ambiguous parameters
• Strong stakeholder management and conflict navigation
• Desire to work in the nuclear sector

• leadership
• communication
• influence and motivation
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS)
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

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