This principal individual contributor role combines hands-on estimating expertise with technical leadership across multidisciplinary estimating workstreams. You will coordinate employee and contractor estimators covering civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and associated infrastructure scopes, setting clear deliverable requirements and maintaining a disciplined review process.
You will translate evolving designs, construction requirements, market conditions, and project risks into credible estimates that support capital planning, procurement, and delivery decisions. You will also develop and improve estimating methods, templates, benchmarks, and cost databases, connecting estimates with procurement outcomes and actual project costs.
Estimating leadership will represent the majority of the role’s planned workload. Alongside this focus, you will independently deliver defined project or package cost-management assignments and provide coverage for cost leads when required. These assignments will have clear scope, priorities, and decision rights agreed with the responsible cost-management leader.
The role exercises independent professional judgment on complex cost matters, provides technical direction and mentoring, and influences stakeholders across functions. Financial approvals, contractual commitments, and personnel decisions remain with the appropriate authorized owners.
Key Responsibilities
Estimating Leadership and Delivery - Primary Accountability
- Lead and coordinate estimating activities across assigned projects, disciplines, and geographic markets, establishing scopes, resource requirements, priorities, deliverables, and review schedules.
- Develop, review, and reconcile feasibility, conceptual, schematic, design-development, and detailed construction estimates appropriate to design maturity.
- Coordinate employee and contractor estimating contributions, resolve scope interfaces, and address gaps, duplication, quality concerns, and delivery constraints.
- Establish a clear basis of estimate documenting scope, quantities, assumptions, exclusions, pricing sources, productivity, allowances, escalation, contingency, and key risks.
- Challenge internal estimates and external proposals for technical accuracy, completeness, consistency, constructability, and alignment with project requirements.
- Lead estimate reviews and reconciliations with Design, Engineering, Preconstruction, Construction, Procurement, Finance, and external partners.
- Evaluate design alternatives, value engineering proposals, procurement options, and infrastructure innovations, considering cost, schedule, performance, and lifecycle implications.
- Present clear recommendations explaining estimate movements, uncertainty, cost drivers, risks, and opportunities; support the handover of estimates into approved project budgets.
Estimating Methods, Standards, and Cost Intelligence
- Develop, document, and improve estimating procedures, templates, measurement rules, review checkpoints, and standard deliverables for approval and implementation within OCI’s governance framework.
- Apply consistent estimate classifications, work and cost breakdown structures, cost coding, and reconciliation practices.
- Maintain traceable cost databases covering quantities, unit rates, assemblies, systems, and project-level costs.
- Develop and maintain benchmarks that account for differences in geography, capacity, design, scope, delivery method, market conditions, and pricing date.
- Incorporate bid results, contract awards, approved changes, and final costs into estimating intelligence; investigate estimate-to-actual variances and refine assumptions.
- Track labor, material, productivity, escalation, and supply-chain trends, translating relevant developments into estimating advice and risk assessments.
Project Cost Management and Cost-Lead Coverage - Secondary Accountability
For assigned projects, contracts, or work packages:
- Develop and maintain budgets, cost plans, commitments, actuals, accruals, cash-flow projections, estimates to complete, and estimates at completion.
- Prepare periodic cost reports and variance analyses, explaining forecast movements, emerging exposures, and recommended corrective actions.
- Evaluate change proposals and potential claims for quantities, rates, scope alignment, supporting evidence, and cost implications; support commercial assessments and negotiations with Procurement, Contracts, Legal, and delivery teams.
- Maintain change, risk, allowance, and contingency records; assess exposure and recommend adjustments or drawdowns through established approval processes.
- Review payment applications against contract terms, progress valuations, and supporting cost evidence, and provide recommendations to authorized approvers.
- Support procurement through cost models, bid comparisons, pricing assessments, and commercial recommendations.
- Reconcile estimates, approved budgets, commitments, forecasts, and actual costs with Finance and project stakeholders.
- Support final-account reconciliation, financial closeout, and lessons learned, returning validated cost information to estimating databases.
- Escalate decisions, coverage requirements, or competing priorities that exceed the agreed assignment, available capacity, or delegated authority.
Technical Leadership and Governance
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to estimators, cost engineers, and analysts, promoting consistent methods and knowledge sharing.
- Define contractor estimating deliverables and coordinate capacity within approved statements of work, escalating contractual or personnel matters to the responsible owners.
- Implement approved cost structures, reporting routines, document controls, and review requirements; recommend improvements based on delivery experience.
- Maintain auditable records and protect confidential project, supplier, and commercial information in accordance with applicable Oracle policies and contractual requirements.
- Use approved analytical and automation tools, validating outputs and maintaining traceability to source information and required human review.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant practical experience.
- Eight or more years of progressive experience in construction estimating, cost planning, quantity surveying, or capital-project cost management, including substantial responsibility for estimating.
- Experience with data centers, mission-critical facilities, or comparably complex industrial and infrastructure projects.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary estimating workstreams and coordinate employee or contractor contributions without relying on formal reporting authority.
- Experience producing estimates from early feasibility through detailed design and reconciling estimates with contractor pricing and market evidence.
- Demonstrated hands-on capability in budgeting, forecasting, cost reporting, change evaluation, and commercial analysis.
- Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, quantities, construction methodologies, schedules, and commercial documents across major construction disciplines.
- Experience developing estimating procedures, quality reviews, benchmarks, and cost databases.
- Advanced spreadsheet skills and proficiency with estimating, quantity takeoff, and cost-management tools.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex cost matters and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting hyperscale data center campuses or capital programs across multiple markets.
- Experience with owner-side cost management, construction consultancy, or contractor preconstruction.
- Familiarity with competitive tendering, negotiated procurement, design-build, construction management, and major construction contract pricing arrangements.
- Experience integrating cost and schedule information, assessing productivity, and evaluating schedule-related cost exposure.
- Familiarity with Oracle Unifier, Primavera P6, EcoSys, Oracle ERP, business intelligence platforms, or comparable systems.
- Experience improving cost-data quality, reporting automation, or approved AI-assisted workflows.
- Relevant professional credentials, such as AACE Certified Estimating Professional, Certified Cost Professional, MRICS, or PMP.
Success in This Role Success means delivering timely, credible estimates through well-coordinated estimating workstreams; maintaining consistently applied methods and trusted cost intelligence; and providing reliable cost management for assigned projects. The role improves cost predictability, makes risks and assumptions visible, and supports informed decisions while maintaining estimating as its principal focus
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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