Cost Engineer - Project Controls - Energy Projects

Turner & Townsend
Liverpool
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Energy & Utilities OperationsSkills: ["Highly organised","Detail-oriented","Communication","Stakeholder management","Time management"]

Support cost management and project controls for energy projects, focusing on invoice processing, cost administration, and financial reporting. You’ll help maintain cost control systems, reconcile supplier invoices, manage purchase/work orders, and produce accruals and month-end reporting. Working with project controls, planning, commercial, finance, and procurement teams, you’ll ensure accurate cost breakdowns aligned to WBS and provide cost data for change control and forecasting.

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Turner & Townsend
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Cost Engineer - Project Controls - Energy Projects

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Job Summary

Support cost management and project controls for energy projects, focusing on invoice processing, cost administration, and financial reporting. You’ll help maintain cost control systems, reconcile supplier invoices, manage purchase/work orders, and produce accruals and month-end reporting. Working with project controls, planning, commercial, finance, and procurement teams, you’ll ensure accurate cost breakdowns aligned to WBS and provide cost data for change control and forecasting.
Location: Liverpool
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Energy & Utilities Operations

Key Responsibilities

  • •Implement and maintain cost control systems and processes to track budgets, commitments, actual costs, and forecasts.
  • •Process, validate, and reconcile supplier invoices to ensure accuracy and contractual compliance.
  • •Support Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) aligned to Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and set up purchase/work orders and requisitions.
  • •Monitor invoice status, resolve discrepancies with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and support timely payment processing.
  • •Support accruals, month-end reporting, cost reports, and expenditure analysis for project teams and management.

Key Requirements

  • •Interest in developing a career in cost engineering, project controls, or project finance, with experience or exposure to invoice processing or cost administration.
  • •Strong numerical and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail, including comfort working with financial data in a project environment.
  • •Experience or knowledge of invoice processing, accounts payable, cost administration, or financial controls.
  • •Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
  • •Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines, with strong written/verbal communication and stakeholder management.
Experience:EnergyInfrastructureConstructionProject-based environmentsEngineeringNuclear sector
Skills:Highly organisedDetail-orientedCommunicationStakeholder managementTime management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft Office

Eligibility

Security Clearance:BPSS

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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