Posted 07 August, 2026
Cost Manager
AirTrunk
Australia
Full Time
Reference: 102_698239_7809312003
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