Amazon

Head of Pre-Construction, AMER Data Center Delivery, Data Center Planning and Delivery

Amazon$182K — $272K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of management experience in data center operations or equivalent facilities experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or Construction Management
  • Experience in data center design, construction, or commissioning
  • Strong analytical and financial acumen
  • Proven skills in managing large-scale construction projects

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of builders in project execution
  • Develop project budgets and oversee campus planning
  • Drive continuous improvements in constructability and project schedules
  • Collaborate with procurement to manage supply chains
  • Create metrics to ensure budget, scope and schedule accuracy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including dental and vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and employee assistance programs
  • Flexible spending accounts and adoption reimbursement programs
Full Job Description
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 data center delivery - and we're looking for talented leader who wants to help.

You'll join a diverse team of Construction managers, Design engineers, Procurement managers, Cost Engineers, Technical Project Managers, Finance Managers, 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 positioning AWS DC delivery for fastest delivery possible for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

AWS is seeking a motivated and data-driven Lead of Pre-construction organization to support the Americas data center build out. The candidate should have strong construction project planning from due diligence to design to contracting and to project close out experience. They must possess strong analytical and financial acumen , communication capabilities, manager experience, and a hands-on passion to dive-deep into processes used in our data center operations network. Additionally, candidate must have proven skills in managing large-scale construction projects.

As a leader of Pre-Construction, you will lead a team of highly talented builders responsible for developing project budgets, leading campus planning in partnership with Real Estate, Design and Project Management, drive constuctability improvements project over project, deliver project schedules that align with capacity delivery needs, and partner with procurement to contract supply partners and supply capacity to enable our long term growth. You will develop mechanisms and metrics to ensure budget accuracy, scope accuracy, cost avoidance, value engineering, and schedule and constructability optimization.

The ideal candidate thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, communicates appropriately and influences customers and suppliers at all levels. You will be collaborative, but also work with significant autonomy. To be successful in this role you will be highly analytical; think strategically and globally; exhibit curiosity and learning drive; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines, succeed in a fast-paced environment; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon's Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

A successful candidate will demonstrate:
• Proven experience managing teams. Proven experience driving large-scale process improvements resulting in measurable value
• High attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically
• Demonstrated ability to influence teams to adopt change utilizing smart technologies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where ambiguity exists and continuous innovation is desired
• Committed to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge
• Demonstrated analytical, financial and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary; general manager / owner mentality
• Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding the product, our business, and the competitive landscape
• Ability to see ahead comprehensively and devise a strong plan of action, and ensure execution happens on time, every time
• Ability to get things done and produce conclusive, measurable results within time commitments
• Strong influencing skills

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of relevant management experience in datacenter operations, facility engineering operations, information technology critical environment facilities, advanced high volume manufacturing, datacenter build-outs and scaling, or similar experience

- Bachelor's degree or above in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management or an equivalent engineering science

- Experience in construction of data center delivery (design, commissioning and construction), mission critical facilities, or equivalent industrial/manufacturing facility builds

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Education in construction management or civil/mechanical/electrical engineering. And. large scale data center campus build out experience.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Herndon - 182,300.00 - 272,500.00 USD annually

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