Cost Manager New Australia

Airtrunk; Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AirTrunk is hiring a Cost Manager APAC to drive cost estimation and budgeting for hyperscale data centre projects across the region. You will own cost plans, collaborate with engineering, procurement, and leadership, and ensure cost discipline throughout project lifecycles.

Key responsibilities include delivering estimates to strict measures, communicating constraints to the team, and maintaining robust budgeting and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience cost-estimating for large-scale data centre projects.
• Ability to document changes to construction scope and cost.
• Strong data-driven storytelling for leadership decisions.
• Autonomous and discreet when managing budgets.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cost estimates to approved cost, time, and quality measures.
• Communicate construction cost constraints to the project team.
• Collaborate to create and drive detailed cost plans with OSE.
• Maintain construction budgets within the program and explain cost structure.
• Identify risks on estimating projects and mitigate issues.
• Develop standard cost estimates for repeatable builds.
• Own ongoing cost input, performance metrics, and reporting.
• Evaluate impacts of construction change across constraints.

Skills

Cost estimation

Construction costs

Data analysis

Regional metrics

Communication

Autonomy

Job description

Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?

AirTrunk is a technology company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering hyperscale data centres that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.

Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…

Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.

Your Impact

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

• Manageall 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 & projectobjectivesand results

What You'll Do

• Deliver construction estimates to approved cost, time, and quality measuresandown 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 formaintainingconstruction 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
• Identifyrecurring 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 changein order tomitigate the negative impact on the project.
• Maintain cost and estimate reporting and documentationin accordance withstandard practices
• Assistwith 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 constructionanddata centre projects
• Solid understanding of a broad range of construction methodologies, and an intermediate understanding of electrical and mechanical systems
• Ability toidentifyand document changes to construction scope and cost
• Can perform detailed analysis at a regional levelin order toaccurately 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 tooperatewith 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

The AirTrunk Culture

Working at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.

The pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.

Every AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.

The electrifying buzz at AirTrunk wouldn’t be possible without a diverse team bringing different perspectives, experience and skills together.

As part of our commitment to diversity, inclusiveness, and continuous improvement, we invite you to answer the following questions. Your responses will be used (in aggregate only) to help us identify areas of improvement in our process. Your responses are anonymous, will not be associated with your details or your specific application and will not in any way be used in the hiring decision.