Controls Manager (Cost) - Data Center Construction

Role Description

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Construction Cost Controls Manager to support major data center and mission critical capital programs. This position will be primarily REMOTE with minimal travel.

This role will provide hands-on construction cost controls support across:

• Leased data center facilities
• Tenant fit-outs
• Retrofitting
• Technology modernization
• Connectivity work
• Ground-up data center construction
• Associated infrastructure

The Construction Cost Controls Manager will support:

• Budget management
• Cost forecasting
• Invoice review
• Change order analysis
• Risk documentation
• Financial reporting
• Accruals
• Compliance documentation
• Data quality
• Purchase order support
• Financial closeout activities

The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, commercially aware, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-volume data center delivery environment with multiple platforms, deadlines, contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Finance, Business, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in construction cost controls, project controls, cost management, commercial management, or related capital project delivery roles.
• Experience supporting large-scale construction, data center, mission critical, industrial, technology, infrastructure, or complex capital programs.
• Strong knowledge of construction cost control, forecasting, change management, invoice review, accruals, purchase orders, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Experience reviewing contractor change orders, invoices, cost reports, forecasts, cash flows, and supporting documentation.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, systems, workflows, and reporting deadlines.
• Strong Excel, analytical, and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.

Requirements

• Operate as a hands-on construction cost controls professional in a high-volume data center project environment.
• Support project controls leadership with reliable execution, quality control, and reporting.
• Maintain strong discipline around deadlines, data accuracy, documentation, and workflow follow-through.
• Translate cost and commercial information into clear, decision-ready insights.
• Proactively identify cost, invoice, change, accrual, and reporting issues before they become project impacts.
• Support consistent service delivery across leased data center, retrofit, modernization, connectivity, and new build construction requirements.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• EAP
• 401K
• STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Reward & recognition program
• Optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement
• Nine paid holidays
• 15 days PTO that accrue per year
• Salary range: $130,000 - $165,000