Senior Mechanical Estimator — Remote Infrastructure Projects

Accenture PLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Construct is seeking a seasoned Cost Manager/Estimator to help deliver data center and infrastructure projects across the United States. You will develop standardized cost reporting, validate scope, and align reports with Clients’ WBS while tracking design changes and cost impacts.

Remote work is supported for the majority of hours, with occasional in-person collaboration to engage with clients and teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 6 years of cost management or estimating experience.
• Data Center and Commercial experience.
• Experience as a Cost Manager/Estimator with large-scale infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• You’ll develop a standardized cost reporting framework for reviewing and validating Colocation Developers’ base building construction costs, preparing estimate evaluation reports based on ROM, Schematic, or Construction pricing.
• You’ll review and validate project scope against predefined demarcation matrices, highlighting deviations, cost impacts, and assumptions or exclusions from developers, AEs, GCs, and Clients.
• You’ll develop reports aligned with Clients’ Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) categories and provide summaries of Site & Shell / Increment 0 / Increment 1-N construction phasing.
• You’ll analyze developer data center construction costs against market intelligence and parametric benchmarks, factoring in Value Engineering cost options for Client consideration.
• You’ll review developer security costs against Client benchmarks and capture all supporting assumptions and exclusions.
• You’ll track design changes between estimate revisions, reporting on cost and schedule impacts.
• You’ll coordinate with in-house commodity teams to leverage current market intelligence for accurate cost evaluations.
• You’ll liaise with Client stakeholders and partner teams, including Energy Location Services (ELS), Central Estimating, and others to align on estimating and program costs.
• You’ll prepare and provide high-level ROM estimates to support program planning, annual capex planning, and pipeline projects.
• You’ll develop cost modeling tools to generate high-level estimates, improve benchmark capture, and perform additional duties as assigned..
• You’ll collaborate with CSA and Mechanical estimators to provide one combined estimate for the client.

Skills

Cost reporting

ROM estimates

Cost evaluation

WBS alignment

Stakeholder liaison

Cost modeling

Vendor coordination

Data center experience

Estimation software

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

CostX

Bluebeam

Excel

Accubid software

Job description

Accenture Construct is seeking a seasoned Cost Manager/Estimator to help deliver data center and infrastructure projects across the United States. You will develop standardized cost reporting, validate scope, and align reports with Clients’ WBS while tracking design changes and cost impacts.

Remote work is supported for the majority of hours, with occasional in-person collaboration to engage with clients and teams.