Facilities Cost Engineer (OPEX)

Overview

Facilities Cost Engineer responsible for OPEX budgeting, QVS performance tracking, SAP transactions and procure-to-pay tracking for Construction & Facilities at Micron Technology.

What you'll do

• Lead preparation of the annual OPEX budget for Construction & Facilities, covering utilities, O&M contracts, AMCs, repairs and maintenance, consumables, services, manpower contracts and other operating cost elements.
• Prepare quarterly budget refreshes and rolling forecasts, incorporating operational changes, ramp-up plans, contract renewals, escalations and inflation assumptions.
• Build cost models and bottom-up estimates with cost owners, and maintain clear basis-of-estimate documentation and assumptions.
• Align budgets to cost centers, GL accounts and WBS elements per Micron Finance structure, and support budget reviews and approvals with the Program Lead and Finance.
• Identify cost-saving and cost-avoidance opportunities and incorporate them into budget plans.
• Track and report OPEX performance against QVS targets monthly and quarterly, including actuals, commitments, accruals and forecast-to-complete.
• Perform variance analysis (budget vs. actual vs. forecast), identify root causes and drive corrective actions with cost owners.
• Prepare dashboards and management reports for the Program Lead and site leadership, highlighting risks, opportunities and spend trends.
• Support month-end and quarter-end close and respond to Finance and corporate queries on OPEX performance.
• Create, modify and track Purchase Requisitions in SAP with correct account assignment (cost center, GL, WBS), following approval workflow through to PO conversion.
• Coordinate Goods/Service Receipts (GRN/SES) with requestors and perform GRN adjustments, reversals and corrections as required.
• Estimate and post monthly accruals for services rendered but not invoiced, and reverse and true-up accruals per corporate accounting policies and close calendars.
• Monitor open POs, aged commitments and unutilized balances, driving PO closure and de-obligation of residual values.
• Ensure SAP transactions are accurate, timely, auditable and compliant with internal controls (SOX / delegation of authority).
• Own end-to-end tracking of the Procure-to-Pay cycle (PR → PO → GRN/SES → Invoice → Payment) for all Construction & Facilities OPEX spend.
• Validate vendor invoices against PO terms, contract rates, GRN/SES quantities and service evidence (3-way match), and resolve price/quantity mismatches and blocked invoices.
• Verify statutory invoice requirements, including GST compliance, TDS applicability and e-invoicing details, with Accounts Payable and Tax teams.
• Maintain a P2P tracker with status, ageing and bottlenecks, and follow up with Procurement, AP and vendors to ensure on-time payment.
• Reconcile vendor statements and support vendor ledger clean-up and resolution of disputes.
• Ensure adherence to Micron procurement, finance and audit policies, and support internal and external audits with complete documentation.
• Standardize OPEX processes, templates and reporting, and drive automation of trackers and dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Excel/VBA, SAP reports).
• Partner with Procurement on contract scope, rate validation, escalation clauses and renewals to ensure commercial accuracy.
• Use approved AI tools (e.g., Microsoft 365 Copilot, enterprise GenAI assistants) to speed up budget preparation, variance commentary, contract summaries and management reports, checking all outputs for accuracy.
• Use AI and advanced analytics for OPEX forecasting and spend trend analysis, such as predicting utility, maintenance and contract costs from historical consumption and operating data.
• Apply AI and automation to P2P processes, including invoice data extraction, automated 3-way match exception flagging, duplicate or anomalous invoice detection, and accrual estimation support.
• Identify repetitive OPEX and SAP tasks suitable for automation (AI agents, RPA, Power Automate, Power BI) and work with Finance, IT and digital teams to build and scale these solutions.
• Keep financial data clean, structured and well governed for reliable use by AI and analytics tools.
• Follow Micron's Responsible AI, data privacy, information security and confidentiality policies, and never put confidential vendor, pricing or financial data into unapproved tools.
• Share AI use cases and good practices with the Construction & Facilities team and support colleagues in adopting AI-enabled ways of working.

Details

• Location: Gujarat, India.