Remote Senior Data Center Cost Estimator

Accenture PLC; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Construct is seeking a Senior Cost Manager/Estimator to lead cost management for data center projects in the United States. You will develop a standardized reporting framework, validate scope, and align costs with WBS while delivering ROM estimates and benchmarking against market data.

Responsibilities include coordinating with commodity teams, liaising with Client stakeholders, and producing high-level estimates to support annual planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years of cost management or estimating experience.
• Data Center experience required.
• 4+ years of experience as a Cost Manager/Estimator with large-scale infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop a standardized cost reporting framework for Colocation Developers’ base building costs, preparing ROM/evaluation reports.
• Review and validate project scope against demarcation matrices, noting deviations, cost impacts, and exclusions.
• Develop reports aligned with Clients’ WBS and summarize Site & Shell / Increment 0 / Increment 1-N construction phasing.
• Analyze developer costs against market benchmarks and parametric benchmarks, including Value Engineering options.
• Review developer security costs against Client benchmarks and capture assumptions.
• Track design changes between estimate revisions, reporting cost and schedule impacts.
• Coordinate with in-house commodity teams to leverage market intelligence.
• Liaise with Client stakeholders and partner teams to align estimating and program costs.
• Prepare high-level ROM estimates to support planning and capex.
• Develop cost modeling tools to generate high-level estimates and improve benchmark capture.
• There is some in-person time for collaboration with clients, peers, leaders and communities.

Skills

Cost management

Estimating

Data Center experience

Cost modeling

Market benchmarking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

CostX

Bluebeam

Excel

Accubid

Google Sheets

Job description

Accenture Construct is seeking a Senior Cost Manager/Estimator to lead cost management for data center projects in the United States. You will develop a standardized reporting framework, validate scope, and align costs with WBS while delivering ROM estimates and benchmarking against market data.

Responsibilities include coordinating with commodity teams, liaising with Client stakeholders, and producing high-level estimates to support annual planning.