DESCRIPTION

As the Global Engineering Services (GES) Preconstruction Manager, you are responsible for project managing building industrial development including new builds, retrofits, expansion, and program initiatives from site selection through contract execution. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure scope, budget, and schedule definition are established including timely receipt of building and site permits. You are responsible as the project manager to lead planning, design and pre-construction projects, including new built-to-suit industrial buildings, tenant improvements, extensions of existing facilities and renovation projects.

Key competencies of this position include ensuring that contracted resources deliver work product in support of project durations, permitting, key performance indicators (KPI), quality documentation/artifacts, managing project teams (developers, design engineers, professional consultants), influencing internal teams (Design Engineering, Amazon Robotics), contract management governance, conceptual estimating and budget oversight and overseeing multiple large industrial projects in various locations simultaneously. Translating technical documents and information into an end-to-end story providing a detailed risk analysis for our leaders and customers is essential. This opportunity combines construction engineering, planning, project management, real estate development, validating design, site visits, understanding local building and fire code issues, utilities, sustainability, multi-disciplinary design management, and contract management. The preconstruction manager is responsible for the planning and design of scope, budget, schedule prior to handing off to the construction manager to construct focusing on taking ownership to resolve upstream issues and support the construction team throughout the process.

Key job responsibilities
• Independently manages difficult, cross-functional industrial builds from site selection through design completion and permitting . You will be working independently in assigned regional area, interacting with leadership and stakeholders to resolve issues.
• You will work with internal/external teams including real estate, design engineering, entitlements, construction, finance, launch/startup, architects, engineers, permitting agencies, developers and landlords to secure resources, scope infrastructure builds, set priorities, milestones and drive delivery to meet deadlines
• A senior preconstruction manager drives results through communicating, weighing risks, making decisions, leading and influencing. You will competently represent project and technical information to many different audiences.
• You manage vendor procurement, and oversee professional service providers ensuring their skills and competencies meet the needs required of entitling property and projects.
• Cost estimating, schedule tracking, and forecasting, including identifying and solving factors that may impede a successful permitted project.
• Interfacing and coordinating with the authorities having jurisdiction (AHJ) to ensure regulatory compliance and smooth job execution.
• You will find ways to adapt to constant change and innovation finding ways to Think Big, working outside of your comfort zone to solve adaptable solutions for an evolving business.
• Travel up to 20% within assigned regions

A day in the life
Each day you will represent Amazon in ensuring on time and in budget execution last mile delivery construction projects, while strategically improving processes. Daily tasks may comprise of design development with various consultants on projected changes, project status, ensuring consultants are meeting contractual obligations, and utilizing the Amazon information systems to record and update scheduling, budget and other key developments. You will be navigating through uncertainty, proactively unblocking project barriers and influencing the best project decisions. You will lead multiple projects of varying sizes and functions. You will be tactical and strategic working independently, interacting with leadership to resolve issues.

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

About the team
At Amazon, we are all owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the design review, permitting to construction bidding and consultant during construction execution prior to final hand-off to our internal stakeholder. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team of designers, engineers and managers working daily to develop innovative sustainable facilities and efficient innovative buildings for our customers. We focus on Delivering Results, our speed for Bias for Action and Insisting on the Highest Standards for our customers.