Facilities Cost Engineer (OPEX)

Overview

Manage the operating expenditure (OPEX) budget, performance tracking, SAP transactions and procure-to-pay process for Construction & Facilities.

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 basis-of-estimate documentation.
• 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, following approval workflow through to PO conversion.
• Coordinate Goods/Service Receipts (GRN/SES) with requestors and perform GRN adjustments, reversals and corrections.
• Estimate and post monthly accruals for services rendered but not invoiced, reversing and truing up in line with corporate accounting policies.
• Monitor open POs, aged commitments and unutilized balances, driving PO closure and de-obligation of residual values.
• Own end-to-end tracking of the PR to PO to GRN/SES to Invoice to Payment cycle 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 requirements on invoices, 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 dispute resolution.
• 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.
• Use approved AI tools to speed up budget preparation, draft variance commentary, summarize contracts and prepare management reports, checking all outputs for accuracy.
• Apply AI and advanced analytics to OPEX forecasting and spend trend analysis, and to P2P processes such as invoice data extraction, 3-way match exception flagging and duplicate or anomalous invoice detection.
• Identify repetitive OPEX and SAP tasks that can be automated (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, following Micron's Responsible AI, data privacy, information security and confidentiality policies.
• Share AI use cases and good practices with the Construction & Facilities team.

Details

• Location: Sanand, India (site 303C, Facilities/Construction).