Location
London, with hybrid working arrangements including home, Turner & Townsend offices, and client sites across the region (typically 2-3 days per week onsite).

Hours
Full Time, flexible hybrid working model supporting work-life balance and wellbeing.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Project Cost Controller Manager to join our growing Defence South East team. You will play a pivotal role in delivering cost control and performance management services across a portfolio of high-profile UK Defence projects and programmes. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of UK Defence, collaborating with experienced professionals and contributing to innovative cost control solutions. You will support clients in delivering major programmes that enhance national capability and transform the defence landscape. Working within an award-winning Cost Control and Project Controls community, you will implement and maintain cost control systems, develop integrated Performance Measurement Baselines, prepare accruals, and generate cost reports including Earned Value Analysis. You will also provide cost input for Change Requests, update project forecasts, and deliver timely cost information to support project leadership decision-making. This role requires collaboration across project delivery teams and the wider cost control function, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and change control processes. The position is based locally with a hybrid working approach and requires travel to client sites as needed. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career in the Defence sector with a purpose-driven organisation that values expertise, collaboration, and long-term relationships.

Experience
- Proven experience in cost control and project controls within complex, large-scale infrastructure or Defence sector programmes.
- Strong understanding of cost management principles including budgeting, forecasting, accruals, earned value management (EVM), and cost performance analysis.
- Proven ability to build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with clients, contributing to long-term partnerships.
- Experience coordinating contractors, consultants, and advisors across multiple concurrent projects.
- Practical experience using Microsoft Excel and other MS Office applications for cost tracking, analysis, and reporting.
- Proficiency in Cost Management tools such as ECOSYS, PRISM, COBRA or similar platforms.
- Awareness of integration between cost control and other project controls disciplines including scheduling, risk management, reporting, and change control.

About you
- Strong collaborator able to work independently or within a team.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to influence and lead multidisciplinary project teams.
- Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced, complex environment.
- Flexible and adaptable to hybrid working and travel requirements.
- Professional, trustworthy, and able to maintain confidentiality in sensitive defence projects.

Qualifications
- Must hold, or be eligible to obtain, UK Ministry of Defence Security Clearance (SC or higher); UK passport required.
- Degree qualified in a relevant technical, engineering, or management discipline, or possess equivalent professional qualifications and demonstrable experience in Cost Control.
- Membership of a recognised professional body such as the Association for Project Management (APM) or Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
- A UK driving license or ability to travel to client sites across the region as required is essential.
- Desirable: Experience working with UK Government departments and agencies on complex infrastructure or capital investment programmes.
- Desirable: Broader project management expertise including change management, stakeholder engagement, and governance across the project lifecycle.