Your Impact

As Cost Manager reporting to theSenior Cost Manager APAC, you will work closely with the rest of the Development team, making an impact in a number of ways:

• Manage all aspects of construction estimates and build costs that are business-critical for our hyper-scale data centre projects
• Develop and document costs/estimating to phase & project objectives and results

What You'll Do

• Deliver construction estimates to approved cost, time, and quality measures and own the development of these measures for the program

• Clearly communicate any construction cost constraints to the project team

• Collaborate with Engineering Technology & Procurement OSE to create and drive detailed cost plans

• Accountable for maintaining construction budgets within their program, speak to and provide an explanation of the overall cost structure.

• Identify, incorporate, and mitigate risks and issues on assigned estimating projects

• Identify recurring issues and trends using metrics data, and work with key partners to find permanent solutions

• Develop standard cost/estimate as needed for repeatable builds within their region or sphere of control and for new customers, vendors, and technologies

• Overall ownership of an ongoing cost input including definition, and performance metrics

• Evaluate the impacts of construction change on other construction constraints. Evaluate multiple options for absorbing the change in order to mitigate the negative impact on the project.

• Maintain cost and estimate reporting and documentation in accordance with standard practices
• Assist with benchmarking and analytics on current and historic projects

What You'll Bring

• Have successfully cost-estimated and planned processes and procedures for complex large-scale construction and data centre projects

• Solid understanding of a broad range of construction methodologies, and an intermediate understanding of electrical and mechanical systems

• Ability to identify and document changes to construction scope and cost

• Can perform detailed analysis at a regional level in order to accurately present construction cost metrics to senior leadership

• Ability to support business cases with concise, data-driven expository documents

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Able to operate with significant autonomy and discretion

• Strong communicator and ability to interact with all professional levels within an organisation

• Professional attitude with persuasive skills in making things happen

• Exceptionally flexible, forward-thinking, and motivated by change