Construction Cost Analyst
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Job overview
The Construction Cost Analyst manages financial performance, capital expenditures, estimates, and forecasts for multi-million-dollar data center construction and hyperscale infrastructure projects. The role covers cost planning, forecasting, procurement and change management, and compliance. The posting seeks 5 to 7+ years of experience in construction cost management, project controls, or financial planning, ideally with exposure to data center, industrial, or mission-critical developments.
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Primary Roles and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
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Cost Planning & Estimating: Build detailed cost models, work breakdown structures (WBS), and budgets for multi-phase or hyperscale data center construction.
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Forecasting & Variance Analysis: Produce Estimate at Completion (EAC) reports, cash flow projections, and monthly budget-vs-actual variance dashboards.
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Procurement & Change Management: Evaluate contractor pay applications, review change orders, support commercial negotiations, and run value-engineering for MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) infrastructure.
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Compliance & Governance: Ensure Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, audit readiness, and data integration across enterprise tools (such as SQL, Power BI, or internal controls platforms)
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Manages the financial performance, capital expenditures (CapEx), estimates, and forecasts for multi-million-dollar data center construction and hyperscale infrastructure projects
Typical Qualifications
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Education: Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Finance, or Engineering.
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Experience: 5 to 7+ years of experience in construction cost management, project controls, or financial planning—ideally with direct exposure to data center, industrial, or mission-critical developments.
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Technical Skills: Proficiency in cost-control software, earned value management (EVM), financial modeling, and data analytics (SQL/Excel). Certifications like RICS are frequently preferred.
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Construction or Data Center Finance Experience preferred
How this job compares
Set against the 2,677 open Project Controls jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Louisiana median$90–159K/yr29 salary ranges
- US median$29–38/hr71 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 53 open Project Controls jobs in Louisiana and 2,677 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Louisiana
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Controls postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,405 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 798 of the 2,677 open Project Controls jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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