Senior Cost Control Manager - Civil Infrastructure

About the position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior level Cost Control Manager with a strong background in civil infrastructure, specifically with required experience in rail projects, to work with our team onsite in Baltimore, Maryland. This role involves managing budgets, tracking costs, supporting forecasting, and ensuring accurate reporting. Strong data analysis skills, experience with earned value, and the ability to work across teams are essential.

Responsibilities

• Implement, administer and maintain cost control system and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures and forecasts for projects of medium complexity and value
• Assist in the preparation and review of cost estimates
• Provide cost information to support decision and alternative selection
• Evaluate and analyze fee proposals / bids and provide recommendation for decision making
• Provide forecasts and cash flow analysis
• Maintain and manage the cost report and provide regular updates on financial position
• Assist in the development, validation and maintenance of the project schedule
• Assist in developing reporting tracking tools and generates cost reports on regular basis including evaluation of earned value
• Build intricate spreadsheets to enable fast and accurate data manipulation of large datasets
• Extract data from several sources, transforming it to fit operational needs
• Reconcile data to support complete accuracy and creates a clean audit trail
• Perform day to day commercial management activities including, but not limited to, attending and/or chairing progress meetings, monitoring schedules, expediting, drafting of change documents as required, facilitate change processes, negotiations, facilitating and negotiation of claims and disputes as required, forecasting, accrual reporting, validation of payment requests, tracking of contract submittals and other deliverables, monitor document controls and contract interpretation
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable

Requirements

• 7+ years of recent cost control and commercial management experience on rail infrastructure construction projects (rail experience is required)
• A recognized university degree in Construction Management or a related field
• Membership in relevant professional organization (e.g., RICS, AACEI) is advantageous
• Certification or designation from a professional body is an asset (e.g., MRICS, CCP)

Benefits

• Salary range for this full-time role is $130K-$165K per year
• Promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance
• Equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment