Infrastructure & Capital Projects - Senior Cost Manager, COM

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• (Internal Title: Senior Cost Lead)
  • Responsible for change order governance, contractor negotiations, and contingency management, ensuring cost integrity across General Contractor scopes and major trade packages for a GW data center campus.
  • Lead change order review and validation, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with Meta standards.
  • Manage monthly Owner Change Orders in alignment with approved budgets and forecasts.
  • Support GC negotiations, collaboration terms, and contractual cost discussions.
  • Evaluate impacts to contingency utilization, risk exposure, and cost trends.
  • Partner with construction and commercial teams to mitigate cost risks.
  • Provide leadership insight into cost drivers and financial exposure.
  • Lead a team of approximately six (6) cost managers responsible for projects within the data center campus.
  • Critical for controlling cost growth and contingency drawdown on Mega Campus projects with complex GC and trade environments.
  • Develop a plan for integrated project controls including scope, cost, schedule, and progress of assigned projects based on industry’s best practices and by incorporating client’s requirements when required
  • Facilitate the change management process and continuously forecast project schedule and cost impacts
  • Establish the resources and organization (skills, manpower, list of tools and procedures applicable, and communications) needed to achieve the control strategy to ensure the consistent implementation of the project control system for all projects
  • Formulate the overall Project Breakdown Structure to meet all control requirements and ensure that cost control and scheduling systems are compatible
  • Determine training materials needed to train project teams on the principles of schedule, cost, risk, and earned value management, and plan and procedures
  • Draft a detailed monthly report by gathering progress details through the collection and verification of information. Coordinate a management review and issue the report by the agreed deadline each month including cost, schedule, earned value, change control, contract administration, third-party recoveries, contingency utilization, and progress photos
  • Complete any tasks assigned by the supervisor in an efficient and timely manner
• WORKING CONDITIONS
  • Remote, with some occasional travel to the U.S.
  • With all our roles, there is some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders and communities. As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.