Manager of Construction, MLZ Data Center Construction
Amazon
- Indiana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or an equivalent engineering science plus 10 years of relevant construction experience, OR 14 years of relevant construction experience in lieu of a degree.
- 5+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, leading, and coaching teams of construction professionals.
- 5+ years of experience hiring, promoting, disciplining, and developing teams of construction professionals.
- 6+ years of experience in construction management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) plants.
- 6+ years of general contractor and vendor management experience (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, and RFI and submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution.
- 5+ years of experience managing construction of complex electrical and mechanical engineering systems, including large scale power distribution or generation, and cooling systems.
You will:
- Own project scope, quality, schedule, and budget for construction of new builds or general capital projects.
- Own construction project management and oversight of construction related activities.
- Work alongside partner teams such as Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning to build Data Centers that directly support our Customers.
- Be a leader in your specific discipline (construction management, building services, architectural, electrical or mechanical engineering).
- Represent Amazon's owner's representative on construction sites daily, as, interacting with construction trades.
- Be Amazon's construction representative on multiple data centers building and capital improvement construction project sites from construction start through hand-off to operations.
- Direct interface with construction general contractors during the construction bidding, award, execution, punch-list, and closeout phases.
- 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 managing construction contractors and vendors.
- Perform 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 commissioning and integrated system testing and oversight.
- Support operations of installed facilities, including review of procedures, best practices, and maintenance initiatives.
- Support capital request creation.
- 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 construction efficiency and increasing data center resiliency.
- Provide constructability reviews for civil, structural, electrical and mechanical designs for new or optimization of existing data centers.
- Be a leader within the group, and within internal and external data center support teams.
Portage, Indiana will NOT be the permanent reporting location. This is a temporary location until the final location in the Indiana region is finalized.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Portage, IN, USAPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MS in Construction Management or Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Structural)
- 8+ Yrs. Directly managing, mentoring, leading, and coaching teams of construction professionals
- 10+ Yrs. Exp. Project Management and Vendor Management
- 5+ Yrs. Exp. In Data Center system-level architecture and electrical engineering principals
- 5+ Yrs. Exp. In Data Center system-level architecture and mechanical engineering principals
- Experience designing data centers or critical MEP infrastructure
- Certified as a Professional Engineer (PE), LEED, or Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
- Prior AWS/Amazon experience
- 5+ Yr. Military Service