Sr. Value Engineering Manager, Value Engineering

About the role

This role involves owning cost engineering and value engineering on large-scale construction projects and shaping the future of AI-powered cost intelligence. It requires influencing multi-million-dollar supplier negotiations, presenting to senior leadership, and supporting the development of tools that transform construction cost management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver independent, bottom-up construction cost estimates for North America Design & Construction stakeholders across retrofit, expansion, and new-build projects spanning multiple building types and fulfillment network segments.
• Develop cost estimates from early-stage concepts through RFP-ready construction documents, selecting appropriate methodologies and analytical depth based on project maturity and available information.
• Own estimating strategies for repeatable multi-site programs by developing scalable templates while producing detailed bottom-up estimates for complex, site-specific projects requiring advanced analytical judgment.
• Generate conceptual ROM estimates to support early project planning, business case development, investment decisions, and funding approvals.
• Lead should-cost modeling, benchmarking, and Value Engineering analyses to identify cost optimization opportunities while preserving design intent, quality, constructability, schedule, and operational requirements.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to improve estimating efficiency through automated data gathering, benchmarking, and cost analysis while applying engineering judgment to validate outputs and resolve complex or ambiguous scopes.
• Drive development of scalable AI-enabled estimating solutions by curating project and market cost data, validating model performance, and identifying opportunities to automate routine estimating activities.
• Partner with preconstruction managers, design engineers, sourcing teams, category managers, and business stakeholders to validate assumptions, communicate cost risks, evaluate alternatives, and influence cost-informed decisions throughout project development.
• Establish estimating best practices through peer reviews, continuous improvement initiatives, and maintenance of current labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and market pricing databases to ensure consistent, accurate, and defensible cost models.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience as an Architect, Engineer, Construction Manager, Development Manager, Owner's project management representative, or in other Commercial Development and Construction related disciplines.
• Experience developing bottom-up cost models, should-cost models, cost benchmarks, cost driver analysis, and analytical frameworks to support complex construction or capital investment decisions.

Qualifications

• Deep construction industry expertise combined with a forward-looking mindset.
• Comfortable working with AI and automation as a default part of workflow.
• Experience contributing to AI tool development in an estimating or procurement context.
• Proficiency with CostX or equivalent takeoff and cost modeling software.
• Familiarity with Amazon's internal estimating systems and tools.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with project management tools and methodologies.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, and 401(k) matching. Learn more at Amazon Jobs Benefits.