Construction Manager, Amazon

Amazon • Santa Monica, CA

23h • Onsite

About The Position

As the GES Construction Manager, you are a customer obsessed leader in the
Amazon construction process. In this role, you will be integral in implementing
the facility network infrastructure, including sortation centers, delivery
stations, and auxiliary buildings supporting those facilities. The construction
projects may include new builds, retrofits, and expansions. You will be required
to perform detailed deep dive reviews of job budgets and schedules identifying
and resolving any discrepancies, including contractor bid packages. You will
partner with internal customers and external stakeholders to earn their trust
and engage as a team to deliver results. You will be charged to ensure
information is being communicated to internal and external stakeholders in an
effective and timely manner. Some key competencies of this position include;
insisting on the highest standards, ensuring that contracted resources deliver
work meeting duration and quality targets, coaching all project teams
(developers, design engineers, contractors), thinking big (seeking better ways
to serve your customers), influencing internal stakeholders while holding them
accountable for their actions, ensuring all job internal and external team
members are on point and maintaining schedules and budgets, inventing and
simplifying innovative solutions that allow for improved processes and results,
and overseeing more than one project in various locations simultaneously. This
opportunity combines construction engineering, planning, project management,
facilities management, and contract management.

This role requires up to 60% regional travel and availability to work from a
corporate office when not traveling. Candidates should either live near or be
willing to relocate within a reasonable commuting distance of the office.
Relocation assistance may be provided.

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 with AutoCAD and/or Building Information Modeling (BIM), as well as scheduling software (Primavera, MS Project, or similar)
• Experience conducting financial business case analysis and translating information into useful formats to draw conclusions

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating within at least two disciplines within the construction industry, such as Contracting, Owners Representation, Architecture, Design and Engineering, Commercial Development, analysis and control of construction costs or similar
• Project Management accreditation (PMP®, CMAA, or similar)

Responsibilities

• Supervising the implementation and management of Amazon’s safety programs and standards with the entire internal and external project team.
• Manage a project, problem resolution or effort
• Ensure that the skills and competencies of contract labor are appropriate to need and fit to undertake the work.
• Operate independently in the assigned region, interacting with leadership and stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Comprehensive budget and schedule tracking and forecasting are fundamental responsibilities. Striving for frugality and accomplishing more with less while identifying and solving factors that may impede a successful project hand-over to Amazon stakeholders.
• Interfacing and coordinating with the authorities that have jurisdiction (AHJ) on the project to ensure regulatory compliance and smooth job execution.
• Advise on the impact of change on time, cost and permitting.
• Maintaining internal and external stakeholders up to date on all pertinent information through comprehensive and timely communication.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level