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:
- 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
Skills Required
- Proven experience cost-estimating and planning for complex large-scale construction and data centre projects
- Solid understanding of a broad range of construction methodologies
- Intermediate understanding of electrical and mechanical systems
- Ability to identify and document changes to construction scope and cost
- Ability to perform detailed regional-level analysis and present construction cost metrics to senior leadership
- Ability to support business cases with concise, data-driven documents
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to operate with significant autonomy and discretion
- Strong communication skills and ability to interact with all professional levels
- Professional, persuasive attitude and adaptability to change
What We Do
AirTrunk is an Asia-Pacific & Japan (APJ) data centre 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 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. We opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, then set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APJ region. Joining AirTrunk is your chance to Grow@Hyperscale. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and scale your impact. Certified as a Great Place to Work in Australia, Singapore and Japan and ranked #10 in Australia’s Best Workplaces™ for 2023, come and join the A-Team. To learn more, go to https://airtrunk.com/about-airtrunk
