Cost & Change Lead - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources to deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives. By transforming challenges into opportunities and complexity into success, we deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions. As a majority-owned subsidiary of CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, we leverage our partnership to provide clients with premier programme, project, and cost management services globally.

Join us and be part of a team that is committed to excellence and innovation. Visit our website: https://www.turnerandtownsend.com.

Turner & Townsend is seeking a detail-oriented Cost & Change Lead to support major infrastructure program's in South-East Queensland. This role will be responsible for managing program budgets, cost control, and change governance across multiple workstreams.

• Budget Management – Facilitate confirmation of program and project budgets, ensuring alignment with financial objectives
• Cost Control & Reporting – Gather, verify, and report on all program costs (direct and indirect), including monthly budget vs. expenditure tracking
• Trend & Variance Analysis – Identify cost trends, analyse variances, and forecast total program costs
• Earned Value & Systems Alignment – Establish Earned Value Management and maintain alignment with systems such as SAP and Unifier
• Change Control Leadership – Lead the program change control function, including Go/No-Go decisions and internal change forums
• Integrated Reporting – Maintain the change register, support PowerBI reporting, and provide monthly summaries of cost and change impacts

• Extensive Experience – Minimum 10 years’ experience in project controls, ideally within the rail or infrastructure sector
• Cost & Change Expertise – Strong knowledge of cost systems, change control processes, and financial forecasting
• Analytical Skills – Ability to interpret cost trends, manage contingencies, and provide actionable insights
• Systems Proficiency – Experience with SAP, Unifier, and PowerBI for integrated cost and change reporting
• Stakeholder Engagement – Skilled in facilitating decision-making forums and advising on change procedures and approvals
• Collaborative Approach – Ability to integrate with governance, cost, and risk functions to ensure program-wide alignment

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

#LI-TT1

#LI-Hybrid 

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.