Cost Engineer

TURNER & TOWNSEND; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to delivering exceptional outcomes for clients. As a Cost Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in managing project costs, ensuring accurate reporting, and supporting major projects across various sectors. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your contributions will directly impact project success. The company values its employees and promotes a healthy work-life balance, making it an ideal place for professionals looking to thrive in their careers while making a difference in the industry.

Qualifications

• Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with experience in project controls.
• CIMA qualified candidates are welcome.

Responsibilities

• Develop project cost control data structures to track and control costs.
• Report project information including Earned Value Management metrics.

Skills

Cost Engineering

Project Control

Earned Value Management

Budget Management

Cost Management Systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Relevant Discipline

CIMA Qualification

Tools

Prism

Ecosys

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Company Description

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

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

Cost Engineers support major projects and organisations in the delivery of accurate and timely project information relating to performance against the project baselines. The cost engineer would drive the cost performance reporting for the project including all Earned Value Management metrics associated with key project commitments and expenditures.

Duties

• Development of project cost control data structures to accurately track and control actual costs
• Establishing and setting the project control budget aligned with agreed baselines
• The tracking of actual costs both for internal and external expenditure against the cost controls structures
• The tracking and control of project accruals and commitments against set budget constraints
• The build of project forecast to include for estimated work to complete (ETC) and the development of the estimate at complete (EAC)
• The accurate and timely reporting of all project information including Earned Value Management
• The tracking of project contingency and exposure associated with risk events and remaining risks on the project
• The tracking of project change control to ensure alignment with agreed baselines and control data structures
• The tracking of key project trends which can inform future change controls

Qualifications

Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with proven working experience in the delivery of project controls services for major projects or programmes. Additionally, we would welcome applicants who are CIMA qualified.

Experience

Delivered cost engineering across a range of major projects, preferably across multiple sectors. Worked across the full project lifecycle including for pre-investment decision, design development, execution, and commissioning phases.

Has experience in working to cost engineering procedures and processes, and the ability to define project cost procedures and standards to which the project and/or programme will adhere to.

Highly conversant with cost management systems such as Prism and Ecosys, including for the interface with corporate finance systems such as SAP and Oracle. The cost engineer would have an appreciation of business rules, and how project funding and performance aligns with business financial account requirements within the project or programme environment.

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.

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