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.

Turner & Townsend are leaders in professional services to the Industrial, Sciences and Technology sector (IST) including clients who specialise in Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Data Centres, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors globally.  

As an experienced Cost Engineer you will 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.

Duties

• 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

Experience

You will be a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with three to five years experience in the delivery of project controls services for major projects or programmes.

Have delivered cost engineering across a range of major projects, preferably across multiple sectors including IST related projects. Worked across the full project lifecycle including for pre-investment decision, design development, execution, and commissioning phases.

Has experience in working to cost engineering procedures and process and the ability to define project cost procedures and standards to which the project and/or programme will adhere to.

Be highly conversant with cost management systems.  The cost engineer would have an appreciation of business rules and how project funding and performance aligns with business financial account requirements within the project or programme environment.

Ideal candidates will be already located in the Netherlands and have Dutch language skills.

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 work-life balance. 

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/

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