Cost Engineer

TURNER & TOWNSEND; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company in Manchester is seeking a knowledgeable Cost Engineer to support major projects. This role involves ensuring accurate project cost controls, tracking expenditures, and reporting performance metrics. Ideal candidates should be qualified graduates with experience in project controls, and familiarity with cost management systems. A CIMA qualification is a plus. Join us to contribute to impactful projects and enjoy a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for career development

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven working experience in project controls services for major projects.
• Ability to define project cost procedures and standards.
• Experience in delivering cost engineering across various sectors.

Responsibilities

• Develop project cost control data structures.
• Track actual costs and set budget constraints.
• Accurate reporting of project information and Earned Value Management.

Skills

Project controls services

Cost engineering procedures

Cost management systems

CIMA qualification

Education

Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline

Tools

Prism

Ecosys

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Overview

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Role

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 drives the cost performance reporting for the project including all Earned Value Management metrics associated with key project commitments and expenditures.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Tracking of actual costs both for internal and external expenditure against the cost controls structures
• Tracking and control of project accruals and commitments against set budget constraints
• Build of project forecast to include estimated work to complete (ETC) and development of the estimate at complete (EAC)
• Accurate and timely reporting of all project information including Earned Value Management
• Tracking of project contingency and exposure associated with risk events and remaining risks on the project
• Tracking of project change control to ensure alignment with agreed baselines and control data structures
• Tracking of key project trends to 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. Work across the full project lifecycle including pre-investment decision, design development, execution, and commissioning phases. 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. 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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