Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Data Centers are industry leading examples of innovation in the areas of security, safety, space utilization, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. We are the global team responsible for the construction of the Amazon owned sites. Our Construction Managers are on the forefront of creating and delivering the most innovative products to our customers; and are known for changing the face of cloud computing.
As a Pre-Construction Manager you will support the development and implementation of a regional Pre-Construction program across a multitude of campuses. This role will serve as the primary liaison between Real Estate, Design Engineering and other critical partner teams during initial planning, conceptual design, schematics progress, and design development; providing cost, schedule, and constructability guidance. Our goal is to find the candidate that has highly developed critical facility pre-construction knowledge coupled with extensive practical construction experience to drive standards in this essential part of our delivery process. If you have experience driving global pre-construction standards, bid documents including the plans, specifications and general requirements to describe all the elements of a construction project and working within a broad design and construction infrastructure environment, then you could be the right candidate.
Key job responsibilities
•Working knowledge of critical data center / mission critical equipment.
• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, maintain high quality standards.
• Drive practical constructability standards in design documentation.
• Perform constructability reviews of electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centers or optimization of existing data centers.
• Act as the point of escalation for complex constructability issues.
• Provide input into global standards and data center template designs.
• Perform civil, structural, electrical and build phasing evaluations for potential sites.
• Conduct negotiations with landlords, developers, general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
• Determine and communicate site requirements that could impact schedule, cost, delivery of the work and integration of site with surrounding properties.
• Create construction GC scope and request for proposals.
• Manage GC as they deliver preconstruction services during the design phase.
• Review bid summaries, schedules and milestones, labor pricing, and perform subcontractor evaluations.
• Financial analysis of construction cost at multiple milestones.
• Establish detailed information to supports bi-annual construction budget updates.
• Determine and communicate contract requirements for creation of Work Orders.
• Collect, organize and hand off critical budget, schedule, design and site related information to Construction Manager.
• Collect, organize, apply and hand off lessons learned to design, preconstruction and construction teams to achieve continuous improvement across the entire program.
A day in the life
**Why AWS**
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. 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 — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
You’ll join a diverse team of infrastructure professionals. 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of construction management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) plants experience
- Experience carrying new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
- Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems
- Experience with power management and power monitoring systems
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work, For contractors, For subcontractor,