Senior Construction Manager - Data Centers EMEA Construction

As a Data Centre Senior Construction Manager you will be a part of creative efficient team tasked with tackling fascinating and challenging problems building and supporting the operations of Amazon owned data centres. Amazon Construction Managers are part of a fastpaced team delivering data centres for our Customers.

Our data centres are industry leading examples of energy efficient cost effective designs. The Data Centre Senior Construction Manager is ultimately responsible for the oversight and review of all disciplines including civil structural architectural electrical mechanical controls and commissioning. The Construction Manager will administer all construction contracts ensuring full compliance including all commercial elements.

At Amazon we leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the substation to the server and back to the cooling systems. We are diverse upbeat creative team of engineers and managers working on a daily basis to develop innovative data centres for our Customers.

Key job responsibilities
The Data Centre Senior Construction Manager will be responsible for:
Construction project management and oversight of construction related activities as they relate to new builds or general capital projects. This will include the ownership of the project scope timeline and budget.
Direct interface with construction general contractors during the bidding award and project closeout/punch list phases.
Work with general contractors and vendors to deliver efficient and high quality project turnovers.
Lead negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
Creation of construction project scope and request for proposals.
Capital requests/financial analysis of construction work including change orders purchase orders and invoicing.
Construction project management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centres.
Reviews of electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centres or the optimisation of existing data centres.
Construction submittal review.
Construction project quality control including the creation of a commissioning plan and support of the commissioning process.
Recording and reporting key construction metrics to team members and management.
Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and rootcause failure analysis associated with equipment or electrical failures.
Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data centre.
Role will be based on data centre sites in construction.
Occasional international travel may be required in this role.
Opportunities for International travel may be available in the future.

A day in the life
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were 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 were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Commutable to the Hertfordshire/Thames Valley region.
Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Construction Management or an equivalent engineering science.
5 years of recent experience in construction management of large complex projects involving largescale mechanical electrical and plumbing (MEP) plants. (Previously holding positions of Operation Director Project Director Construction Director Services Director Snr Project Manager Snr Services Manager across schemes in excess of 100 million).
Understand mechanical and electrical engineering principles including breaker coordination studies switchgear sequence of operations local electrical codes.
General contractor and vendor management experience (request for proposals bidding change orders) associated with construction and project .

Experience directly related to the design or construction of data centres/critical infrastructure or large scale mechanical and electrical plants.
Experience with large scale technical operations missioncritical mechanical/electrical infrastructure or largescale compute farms.
Define data centre systemlevel architecture specify/document performance and equipment requirements create/communicate conceptual designs and create/maintain project documentation.
Experience in controls and commissioning of large scale projects.
Experience with power management and power monitoring systems.

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