Associate Director - Bristol, United Kingdom - Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend

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Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference.

That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide. As part of our 2025 Vision we are putting Sustainability and Net Zero at the heart of our business.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client's integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes.

We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals.

The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career.

Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director (Cost Control) to join our busy and expanding, Defence team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Infrastructure Projects/Programmes.

This will be to work on growing our cost capability in the Southwest.

Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Cost Control community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Key Deliverables:

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider cost control team and leading experienced cost professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Leading teams of Cost Control professionals on complex projects or programmes.
Driving continuous improvement in cost control (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.
Driving the implementation, embedding and rollout of any identified changes to cost control processes.
Appropriately selecting, implementing, administering, and maintaining cost control systems and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts.
Lead the team and provide guidance on production of accruals to ensure that the Actual Cost of Work Performed is accurately reflected in a timely manner in the cost data.
Defining how to build and assure project forecast to account for all residual works in the Estimate to Complete (ETC) and the development of the Estimate at Completion (EAC) incorporating required supply chain information.
Managing and leading the production of cost reports to a defined reporting cycle.
Present / provide performance recovery recommendations to relevant stakeholders and senior management to support effective decision making.
Supporting T&T's recruitment activities to grow and develop the project controls capability.

Qualifications

Experience in Cost Control on complex projects/programmes is essential.
Practical experience of different cost performance reporting and cost forecasting techniques is essential.
Practical experience of Earned Value Management (EVM), progress reporting, forecasting and performance reporting and analysis is essential.
Experience of interfacing risk with other Project Controls disciplines (Scheduling, Risk Management, Change Control) is essential.
Experience in leading teams is essential.
Familiarity with various Cost Control tools.
An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Cost Engineering is essential.
The ability to work in both delivery and transformation projects is desirable.
Familiarity with NEC contracts.

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 worklife balance._

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

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