Senior Construction Manager, EMEA DC Construction

The Sr. Construction Manager is a People Manager position in the EMEA Construction Manager team dedicated to leading mentoring and coaching our team of skilled Construction Managers building data centers. You will lead a diverse and creative team solving fascinating problems constructing Amazon Data Centers. You will manage a fast-moving intelligent team of professionals and the regional construction program delivering data center capacity to support Amazons growth in the UK.

Our Data Center Construction team owns and drives the construction life cycle from constructibility proposal development bid analysis award to managing the onsite construction work. This position is based in London and will involve travel (up to 20% of the time) to other locations in mainland Europe.

The manager will be expected to dive deep and know construction management; inspire and think big about the construction management program; and support grow and nurture the team delivering efficient and sophisticated electrical and mechanical systems to our Customers.

Key job responsibilities
The Sr. Construction Manager will be responsible for:

Hire and develop new Construction Managers. Coach mentor and lead a large Construction Management team.
Strategic and tactical management of construction capacity delivery within their region.
Communicate and provide guidance to Finance during the development and execution of capital budgets.
Coordinate with various teams supporting the data center development and launch.
Develop and manage metrics quantifying performance within their region.
Coordinate with Business Development on land and facility acquisition.
Manage the safety cost and quality of the data center deliverable.


Additionally should possess the following abilities:

Ability to lead motivate and train subordinates.
Ability and willingness to think creatively and build innovative solutions to reduce cost and duration with no impact on quality and reliability.
Ability to perform complex business case analysis to justify the project scope and present the justification to management in a high-level review.

A day in the life
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global 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.

- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Construction Management or an equivalent engineering science OR 4 years of related construction management experience in lieu of a degree.
- 5 years of experience directly managing mentoring leading and coaching construction management and/or commissioning professionals.
- 5 years hiring promoting disciplining and developing teams of professional construction/engineering staffs.
- 4 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.
- 4 years of experience directly constructing electrical engineering systems including large scale power distribution/generation gear and constructing mechanical engineering systems including cooling systems.

- 10 years experience in construction of mission critical facilities
- Experience directly related to the design or construction of data centers.
- Understand electrical engineering best practices including breaker coordination studies switch gear sequence of operation and NEC code.
- Understand mechanical engineering principles for cooling systems.
- Experience with large scale technical operations or large-scale compute farms.
- Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety BOCA NFPA NEC and OSHA.
- Ability to define data center system-level architecture specify/document performance and equipment requirements create/communicate conceptual designs and create/maintain project documentation.
- Ability and willingness to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs and duration with no impact on quality and reliability.
- Perform business case analysis to justify project scope and financial position for management review
- Knowledge and experience with large scale power systems.
- Possess clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to use data to justify conclusions

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