Cost Engineer

TURNER & TOWNSEND; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Engineering Professional to establish cost and schedule baselines, monitor performance, and manage changes. You will lead governance, coordinate with cost managers, and guide the contractor while ensuring value for money and timely updates.

Responsibilities include reporting, risk assessment, procurement coordination, and master scheduling with vendors and clients to achieve project objectives and budgets.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls coordination across the full lifecycle.
• Ability to determine corrective actions based on data facts.
• Proficiency with MS Office and Primavera P6.
• Strong time management and ability to meet deadlines.
• Reliable, autonomous and capable of teamwork.
• Motivated to deliver high value to clients.

Responsibilities

• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against baseline and drive remedial actions.
• Lead evaluation of time, cost and quality targets with governance controls.
• Cooperate with remote cost managers to achieve a market-tested baseline.
• Guide the contractor to progress according to schedule and cash flow.
• Act as client contact for delivery issues and prepare formal reports.
• Control costs with conceptual estimating and funding stage gates.
• Create cost reports and executive dashboards.
• Lead change management processes and workflows with clients.
• Coordinate planning sessions to compile master project schedules and baselines.
• Collate vendor lead times and communicate priority for materials and equipment.
• Work with client to define vendor schedule requirements and manage risks.
• Incorporate project changes and notify the team for approvals.
• Hold vendors accountable for timely schedule updates and quality.

Skills

Project controls

Analytics

Autonomy

Team collaboration

Time management

Self-motivation

Tools

MS Office

Primavera P6

Job description

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we are passionate about making a difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

For over 75 years we have been helping our clients deliver on their objectives. Our success at realising outcomes for clients has resulted in significant growth and we are now facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. To reach this goal, we need great people who are passionate about both delivering great outcomes to our clients and contributing to our future vision. This is made entirely possible through our entrepreneurial culture, allowing employees of all levels to directly influence the business and to own their career.

Job Description

As an experienced Cost Engineering Professional you will establish the required processes, templates and tools, and agree the baseline for cost and schedule, whilst monitoring performance against it and incorporating the impacts of risk, opportunities and change in a controlled manner. In order to do this you will:

• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions in order to drive best value for the client.
• Lead the evaluation of the project‘s time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable the successful delivery of the project.
• Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market tested cost baseline and ensuring the client is receiving value for money.
• Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they are progressing in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters.
• Act as the key point of contact to the client overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad hoc reports focussing on time, cost and quality targets.
• Control costs with your knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals, procurement principals.
• Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in a executive level dashboard.
• Understand change management principals, lead agreed change management process and work flow, providing a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving change.
• Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
• Understand procurement principals, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule communicate the prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
• Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements.
• Actively participate in project team risk evaluations, incorporating the defined risks into monte carlo to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on status of project changes, incorporating and communicating these to the project team to allow for approvals in the change management process.
• Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule ensuring that the schedules adhere to the defined process and quality expectations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle including program, risk and reporting with, specialist life sciencesor data centre sector experience.
• Demonstrated experience in the ability to determine corrective actions or recommendations based on facts and figures and critically evaluating information and data from various sources.
• Advanced skills in MS Office and Primavera P6
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to providing excellent service.
• Reliable with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Strong time management skills, quick thinking and ability to meet project deadlines as necessary.
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and have the ability to work independently.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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