Sr Pre-Construction Manager, AMER DCCD Pre-Construction

About the role

As a Sr Pre-Construction Manager, you will support the development and implementation of a Pre-Construction program execution across multiple campuses nationwide. This role serves as the primary liaison between Real Estate, Design Engineering, Due Diligence, and other critical partner teams from initial planning through design development, providing schedule forecasting, construction budgeting, and constructability guidance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Amazon’s construction representative on multiple data center building and capital improvement construction project sites from Due Diligence Phase through hand-off to Construction Management.
• Direct interface with construction general contractors during bidding and award processes.
• Create construction project Scope of Work (SOW) and Request for Proposals (RFP).
• Conduct negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids and proposals with detail and accuracy.
• Manage and drive cost, schedule, and quality while overseeing construction contractors and vendors.
• Perform pre-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 capital request creation and 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 efficiency and increasing data center resiliency.
• Provide constructability reviews for civil, structural, electrical, and mechanical designs for new or optimization of existing data centers.
• Lead within the group and among internal and external data center support teams.

Requirements

• Experience in construction management or construction program management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) plants.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• Experience in construction of data center delivery (design, commissioning, and construction), mission-critical facilities, or equivalent industrial/manufacturing facility builds.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience constructing electrical engineering systems, including large-scale power distribution/generation gear, and mechanical engineering systems, including cooling systems.
• Experience in project control (cost or schedule, or both) and formulating construction programs, especially for infrastructure and mission-critical projects both on-site and in preconstruction environments.

About the team

This role reports into the AMER Precon team within the AMER DCCD organization. We are a nationwide team of diverse building and construction experts who excel at constructing the innovative infrastructure that keeps the cloud running and growing. We collaborate with a wide range of internal partner teams from the outset of new site pursuits through to construction, thinking creatively and acting boldly to continuously improve our deliveries.

Pay

USA, IL, Chicago - $139,300.00 - $208,000.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - $139,300.00 - $208,000.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.