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

Hours
Full Time - standard working hours with flexibility to support hybrid working and occasional travel.

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 key role in delivering cost control and performance management services across a portfolio of high-profile UK Defence projects and programmes. Working at the forefront of UK Defence, you will collaborate with experienced professionals within an award-winning Cost Control and Project Controls community, contributing to innovative solutions and benefiting from extensive knowledge-sharing and development opportunities. This role offers the chance to support major programmes that enhance national capability and transform the defence landscape. You will work from your local office in a hybrid model, collaborating closely with colleagues and client teams across the UK. Your expertise will help shape the future of UK Defence while growing your career within a purpose-driven organisation that values trust, flexibility, and long-term relationships.

Key Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with project delivery teams or independently with support from experienced cost professionals.
- Implement, administer, and maintain cost control systems and procedures to monitor project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts.
- Support development and maintenance of an integrated Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) aligned with change control processes.
- Assist in creating Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) and align time-phased budgets with the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for accurate cost tracking.
- Prepare accruals to ensure timely and accurate reflection of Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP).
- Develop and maintain cost tracking tools and generate regular cost reports, including Earned Value Analysis (EVA).
- Provide cost input for Change Requests, participate in change control boards, and integrate approved changes.
- Update project forecasts to maintain accurate Estimate to Complete (ETC).
- Deliver timely cost information to support project status reporting, performance management, and decision-making.

Additional Information
Due to the sensitive nature of the work, candidates must hold or be eligible to obtain UK Ministry of Defence Security Clearance (SC). Turner & Townsend embraces a hybrid working approach, balancing remote and in-person collaboration to support wellbeing and sustainability. You will be part of a supportive, people-focused culture that values diversity, inclusion, lifelong learning, and meaningful work.

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.
- 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 with excellent communication skills.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes in a dynamic environment.
- Willingness to travel to client sites as required.
- Positive attitude aligned with Turner & Townsend’s values of trust, flexibility, and empowerment.

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 is essential.
- Desirable: Experience working with UK Government departments and agencies on complex infrastructure or capital investment programmes.
- Desirable: Proven ability to lead and manage multidisciplinary project teams and broader project management expertise including change management, stakeholder engagement, and governance.