Associate Director - Cost Engineering - Energy & Natural Resources

Turner & Townsend
United Kingdom
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Energy & Utilities OperationsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Coaching","Mentoring","Strategic thinking"]

Lead cost engineering and cost management across complex Energy & Natural Resources capital programmes, partnering with clients and delivery teams to drive best-practice solutions. You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams, build and assure cost baselines and performance measurement frameworks, and oversee estimating, forecasting, change control, and earned value reporting. Provide strategic cost and commercial insight for investment decisions, and coach teams to continuously improve governance, tools, and digital cost engineering capabilities.

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Turner & Townsend
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Associate Director - Cost Engineering - Energy & Natural Resources

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Job Summary

Lead cost engineering and cost management across complex Energy & Natural Resources capital programmes, partnering with clients and delivery teams to drive best-practice solutions. You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams, build and assure cost baselines and performance measurement frameworks, and oversee estimating, forecasting, change control, and earned value reporting. Provide strategic cost and commercial insight for investment decisions, and coach teams to continuously improve governance, tools, and digital cost engineering capabilities.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Energy & Utilities Operations
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the development and implementation of best-practice cost engineering solutions across projects, programmes and portfolios.
  • •Manage cost engineering teams delivering estimating, forecasting and cost management services for major capital programmes.
  • •Establish, maintain and assure cost breakdown structures, control budgets, cost baselines and performance measurement frameworks.
  • •Drive cost forecasting, trend management, change control and earned value management for reliable performance reporting.
  • •Undertake line management responsibilities including performance management, career development and succession planning.
Travel: Low travel

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience in cost engineering, cost management, cost estimating and project controls for large-scale capital programmes and projects.
  • •Proven track record leading cost management teams and delivering cost engineering services across major infrastructure, energy, natural resources or industrial developments.
  • •Strong integration knowledge across cost, schedule, risk, scope and commercial management to support successful delivery.
  • •Experience establishing and assuring cost baselines, estimating processes, forecasting methodologies and performance measurement systems.
  • •Strong knowledge of industry-standard cost engineering tools and methodologies, including Ecosys, Primavera P6 and Power BI.
Experience:Oil and energyCapital programmesEnergyNatural resourcesInfrastructureProject controls
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationCoachingMentoringStrategic thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:EcosysPrimavera P6Power BI

Company Brief

Turner & Townsend
Global professional services firm providing program, project and cost management, advisory and consulting services across property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to public and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Founded: 1946
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