Senior Pre-Construction Manager, AMER Central Construction

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
• 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 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.
• Support Construction Manager 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.


We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New Albany, OH, USA

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Civil, Structural, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or 8+ years of relevant experience.
- 8+ years of experience constructing electrical engineering systems including large scale power distribution/generation gear and constructing mechanical engineering systems including cooling systems.
- 8+ years of general contractor and vendor management experience (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, RFI/submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters of Science Degree in Engineering or Construction related discipline.
• Certifications such as Professional Engineer (PE), LEED, and/or Certified Construction Manager (CCM).
• Experience directly related to the design or construction of data centers/critical infrastructure or large scale mechanical and electrical plants.
• Sustainable design experience.
• Experience of end to end project delivery.
• Ability to develop new concepts through exploration, design, testing and into deployment/mass production.
• Proven track record in creating and releasing high quality, consistent documentation for processes, standards and procedures.
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, IBC, NFPA, NEC, and OSHA.
• Experience in controls and commissioning of large scale projects.
• Experience with power manag