Cost/Senior Cost Controller (hybrid working)

Turner & Townsend; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking a qualified Cost Engineer in Nottingham. The role involves driving cost performance reporting for major projects and ensuring timely project information. Candidates should have 5-10 years of experience in project controls for significant projects. Responsibilities include developing cost control structures, establishing budgets, and ensuring alignment with project baselines. This company values diversity and encourages applications from all sectors, providing an inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Five to ten years experience in delivery of project controls services for major projects or programmes.

Responsibilities

• Develop project cost control data structures to track actual costs.
• Establish and set the project control budget with agreed baselines.
• Track actual costs for internal and external expenditure.
• Control project accruals and commitments against budget constraints.
• Build project forecasts including estimated work to complete.
• Report all project information including Earned Value Management.
• Track project contingency and exposure related to risks.
• Ensure alignment of change controls with agreed baselines.
• Inform future change controls using key project trends.

Education

Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline

Job description

Company Description

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. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. 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

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.

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
• 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 five to ten years experience in the delivery of project controls services for major projects or programmes.

Additional Information

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

#LI-CH1

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

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.