Sr. Construction Manager, Data Center Construction
Key job responsibilities
- Own project scope, quality, schedule, and budget for construction of new builds or general capital projects
- Own construction project management and oversight of construction related activities
- Work alongside partner teams such as Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning to build Data Centers that directly support our Customers
- Be a leader in your specific discipline (construction management, building services, architectural, electrical or mechanical engineering)
- Represent Amazon's owner's representative on construction sites daily, interacting with construction trades
- Be Amazon's construction representative on multiple data centers building and capital improvement construction project sites from construction start through hand-off to operations
- Direct interface with construction general contractors during the construction bidding, award, execution, punch-list, and closeout phases
- Create construction project scope and request for proposals
- Conduct negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids and proposals with detail and accuracy
- Manage and drive cost, schedule, and quality while managing construction contractors and vendors
- Perform construction project management activities, including management of documents, submittals, RFIs, change orders, invoices, quality, scope, and schedule
- Drive construction teams to troubleshoot and perform root-cause failure analysis on equipment failures
- Support commissioning and integrated system testing and oversight
- Support operations of installed facilities, including review of procedures, best practices, and maintenance initiatives
- Support capital request creation
- Analyze and report construction progress and financials
- Record and report key construction metrics to team members and management
- Contribute to construction initiatives aimed at improving construction efficiency and increasing data center resiliency
- Provide constructability reviews for electrical and mechanical designs for new or optimization of existing data centers
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in construction of data center delivery (design, commissioning and construction), mission critical facilities, or equivalent industrial/manufacturing facility builds
- Experience constructing electrical engineering systems including large scale power distribution/generation gear and mechanical engineering systems including cooling systems
- Experience in construction management or construction program management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) plants
- Experience in project control (cost or schedule, or both) and formulating construction programmes, especially for infrastructure and mission critical projects both on-site and in preconstruction environments
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or 5+ years of construction or project management experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering multi-media environmental due diligence, permitting, and compliance projects with specific expertise in CWA 404 and NPDES permitting, groundwater protection, wastewater discharge, and natural and cultural resource evaluations
- Experience in Project Controls Standards subject matter, including Estimating, Cost Management, Cost Forecasting, Schedule Management, Progress Measurement, Change Management, Risk Management, WBS/CBS/SBS, Cash-Flow (VOWD), and Benchmarking
- Experience in environmental compliance and permitting, waste management, contractual, regulatory, and liability assessments, environmental permit evaluations and applications, EIAs and water discharge requirements
- Experience developing and implementing environmental compliance programs including regulated waste, water, and air regulations in accordance with applicable laws
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain. You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Diverse experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Pay
- Base salary range: $125,400.00 - $187,300.00 USD annually (USA, MS, Canton)
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Final compensation determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave