Pre-Construction Manager, AMER Southeast ML Data Center Pre-Construction

Amazon•Columbus, OH

About The Position

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 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. Amazon’s Data Centers are industry leading examples of innovation in the areas of security, safety, space utilization, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. We are 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 design standards across regional construction programs. 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 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Civil, Structural, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or 6+ years of relevant experience.
5+ years of experience in data center delivery (design, commissioning and construction), mission critical facilities or equivalent.
5+ years of experience of end to end project delivery.

Nice To Haves

Ability to develop new concepts through exploration, design, testing and into deployment/mass production. Experience directly related to the design or construction of data centers/critical infrastructure or large scale mechanical and electrical plants.
Experience of working with large data center providers in multiple regions.
Large infrastructure project experience, vendor management experience, and sustainable design experience.

Responsibilities

Detailed knowledge of critical data center equipment (Generators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Switchgear, Transformers, Power Feeders, Chillers, Plumbing, Fire Detection/Suppression, Air Handling Units, Computer Room Air Handling/Conditioning Units, UPS, CRAH, CRAC).
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 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.
Travel required: 25%-50%. Domestic and International.
US Citizenship required.