Director of Cost Engineering & Project Controls

Vochure; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Project Controls Cost Director to lead cost engineering and project controls across major programmes, including nuclear and infrastructure sectors. The role focuses on establishing best-practice cost management, governance, forecasting, and performance reporting to support informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

Based in the UK, this senior leadership position requires strong governance, stakeholder management, and capability

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading Cost Engineering functions across complex capital projects.
• Experience delivering cost governance, forecasting and EVM across regulated environments.
• Ability to develop business cases and support investment decisions at executive levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for Cost Engineering and Project Controls across major programmes.
• Establish cost management frameworks and governance across delivery teams.
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, EAC/ETC, and cost reporting to senior leadership.
• Lead cost risk identification, quantitative analysis and mitigation planning.

Skills

Cost engineering

Project controls

Earned value management

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

EcoSys

PRISM

Cobra

Primavera P6

SAP

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Project Controls Cost Director to lead cost engineering and project controls across major programmes, including nuclear and infrastructure sectors. The role focuses on establishing best-practice cost management, governance, forecasting, and performance reporting to support informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

Based in the UK, this senior leadership position requires strong governance, stakeholder management, and capability