Technical Program Manager, Data Center Construction Cost Estimator

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a data-centre cost management professional to own cost estimates, benchmarking, and preconstruction commercial activities for new data centre builds in APAC/EMEA regions. You will serve as the point of contact between project teams and the APAC Estimating group, ensuring budget support and alignment with Global Estimating.

This role requires extensive experience in design, procurement, and cost control for large-scale infrastructure projects, with a focus on delivering accurate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in construction cost management and program management.
• Experience designing infrastructure for data centers and drawing sets.
• Pre-construction quantity surveying and cost estimating.
• Experience in design processes, procurement, and work package planning.

Responsibilities

• Own cost estimates, cost plans, benchmarking, and communications between project teams and estimating.
• Maintain and update data center construction cost estimates and provide analytics.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and provide insights to executives.

Skills

Cost management

Project coordination

Procurement

Cost benchmarking

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Estimating software

Job description

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in construction cost management activities and program management.
• Experience creating infrastructure designs (e.g., telecom, electrical, mechanical), drawing sets for builds, and remodels of data center networking spaces.
• Experience in pre-construction quantity surveying and cost estimating.
• Experience in design processes, procurement, and work package planning.

Preferred qualifications:

• RICS/SCSI/AIQS (or equivalent) chartered or affiliated.
• Experience in managing vendor relationships, with a demonstrated understanding of standard practices in the design and construction industry.
• Experience in the commercial side of hyper-scale data center builds working for a General Contractor (GC)/Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) contractor, Consultant or end-user/client/developer side.

About the job

In this role, you will own cost estimates, cost benchmarking, and the preconstruction commercial activities of new data centre builds. You will act as the point of contact between project team key stakeholders and the APAC Estimating teams as well as ensuring adequate support and budget for extended workforce project consultant estimators. You will work closely with Engineering, Construction, Procurement, and partner teams, ensuring all cost data developed and managed meets the requirements specific to each project’s needs. You will report directly to the EMEA/APAC Region Estimating Manager and work with the Strategic Estimating team to ensure alignment within Global Estimating.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Own cost estimates/cost plans, cost benchmarking, communications and manage meetings and deliverables as the point of contact between the project teams and the estimating team as well as ensuring adequate support and budget for project consultant (extended workforce) estimators.
• Be responsible for the development, maintenance, and updates to all Data Center construction cost estimates for ongoing and new data center projects as well as providing data analytics regarding those estimates for the region.
• Build trusted relationships with program stakeholders, including managing expectations of executive cross-functional leads and ensuring they have the insights they need to make effective decisions.

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