Emea Estimator

1 day ago

Reading, United Kingdom Microsoft Full time

**EMEA Construction Cost Estimator**

**Business Group Description**

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft’s “Cloud First” mission. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for passionate, high energy program managers to help achieve that mission.

Within CO+I, the Cost Team is responsible for supporting delivery of datacenter capacity for Microsoft’s cloud business. We have a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-million, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects with specific safety, quality, schedule, and cost goals.

The EMEA Estimator is responsible for the development and maintenance of estimates and cost targets for all datacenter builds in region and support globally. This role will be concentrated on Data Center projects and forward-looking technology cost Estimating as the overall role. The Estimator will manage all cost estimates, cost data, communications, schedule meetings and be a point of contact between internal and external parties for specific programs, projects or regions being supported. The Estimator will work closely with engineering, construction, procurement, security, networking, and operations teams throughout each project and ensure cost information developed and managed meets the requirements of those specific project needs. The Estimator will report directly to the EMEA Regional Estimating Manager and will have daily interactions with the other Regional groups and the Strategic Estimating group.

**Responsibilities**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Manage and develop Estimates and cost analytics for the region
- Develop market data and tracking for Regional trends
- Support the development and updating of existing and new technology Plans of Records
- Provide regular report-outs and reviews with partner teams, internal teams and senior leadership regarding the scope, schedule and budgets for the projects or programs assigned
- Develop all front-end Estimates for new and emerging technologies for the region
- Partner will all groups at Microsoft that touch or interact with our Datacenter build projects, ensuring alignment along all sectors in the development and review of estimate provided for datacenters or special program

**Knowledge, experience and skills**:

- Must possess a clear understanding of the full Construction Life Cycle
- Capability to perform all forms and types of estimates from parametric to bottoms up and high level what-if scenarios.
- Possess and demonstrate a full range of understanding and appreciation for the Estimating process and how that process ties to the overall organizational goals
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills beyond estimating practices
- Understand and be able to review and discuss plan drawings, and One-Line diagrams (schematics)
- Understand the impact of time and location on construction costs and accurately incorporate those costs into any estimate provided
- Develop, maintain, and report out on project/program scope, schedule, and budget with cost as the main driver in those conversations
- Ability to present using and have a full knowledge of the MS Office Suite, MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
- Creative thinking, written, and verbal communications skills
- Cross-group collaborator and influencer across teams and organizations with proven success in participating in cross-functional teams to deliver on key projects
- Able to work within a dynamic team of full-time employees and consultants
- High personal standard to deliver a thoughtful, polished, and quality deliverable
- Self-starter with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines simultaneously

**Qualifications**:

- Extensive experience in Construction Cost Estimating as a Lead Estimator or Senior Estimator
- Shall have knowledge of and perform to the following industry standards and practices: ASPE, CSI, AACEI, RICS
- Can clearly set and lead meetings to review and discuss estimates or estimating activities
- High level of understanding of the global economic conditions and how those conditions would affect the work being completed and the associated costs of said issues
- Possess multi-discipline experience and understand and be able to estimate all facets of a datacenter construction project (CSA, Mechanical, Electrical, Telecom)
- Past work history in Pharmaceutical, High-Tech or Industrial projects; datacenter industry a plus

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