Pre-Construction Manager, EMEA, Design & Construction (D&C), Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF)

The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team provides real estate transaction expertise business partnering space & occupancy planning design and construction capital investment program management and facility maintenance and operations for Amazons corporate office portfolio across multiple countries. We partner with suppliers to ensure quality innovation and operational excellence with Amazons business and utilize customer driven feedback to continuously improve and exceed employee expectations.
The Design and Construction team under GREF is looking for a Pre-Construction Manager to drive pre-construction services on projects including new builds retrofits expansion and program initiatives from site selection and program development through construction contract execution. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure scope budget and schedule definition are established including overseeing timely receipt of building and site permits. You will act as the project manager to lead pre-construction planning for projects of many types including tenant improvements extensions of existing facilities and renovation projects.

Key competencies of this position include ensuring on-time delivery from contracted resources of work product permitting key performance indicators (KPI) and quality documentation/artifacts managing project teams (developers design engineers professional consultants) influencing internal teams contract management governance conceptual estimating and budget oversight and overseeing multiple 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 and schedule prior to handing off to a construction manager focusing on taking ownership to resolve upstream issues and supporting the construction team throughout the process.

This position requires travel of up to 25% within assigned regions. Outside of the required travel we believe that in-person collaboration is essential to our culture and innovation. While we allow flexibility for personal circumstances we generally expect employees to work from our offices five days a week. This approach has consistently shown that spontaneous interactions rapid problem-solving and the energy of in-person teamwork lead to better results for our particular our data shows that teams working together in person are more effective at making complex decisions onboarding new team members and fostering the kind of creative collaboration that has driven Amazons success. The serendipitous hallway conversations and impromptu whiteboarding sessions that happen naturally in an office environment have proven invaluable to our invention process and maintaining our high bar for excellence.

Key job responsibilities
- Ensure project funding is secured to enable on time and under budget project execution.
- Establish Schedule Dependencies for initial project approval and project delivery.
- Partner with the Transaction team to ensure leases require Landlord delivery aligned with Amazons needs and budget.
- Work with internal stakeholders as well as exterior partners to secure resources create and uphold contractual terms and drive delivery.
- Manage working relationships with stakeholders and vendors and lead constructive dialogue to resolve and prevent project issues.
- Manage vendor procurement and oversee professional service providers ensuring competencies meet needs.
- Perform pricing reviews for scope inclusions/exclusions and negotiate the cost of the work with landlords general contractors and design consultants.
- Supervise the implementation and management of Amazons safety programs and standards with the internal and external project team.
- Coordinate with design teams to develop site plans in compliance with design standards and operational requirements.
- Prepare project status/risk reports and concise summaries to present to leadership and management teams.
- Coordinate with the authorities that have jurisdiction (AHJ) on the project to ensure regulatory compliance and smooth job execution.
- Adapt to constant change and innovation while finding ways to Think Big providing solutions for an evolving business.
- Provide detailed analysis and approvals of technical matters and site-specific deal structures and terms.

- Bachelors degree in Architecture Construction Management Engineering or a related field
- Experience operating within at least two disciplines within the construction industry such as Contracting Owners Representation Architecture Design and Engineering Commercial Development analysis and control of construction costs or similar
- Experience in project management including resource planning managing schedules reporting project status and prioritizing own tasks and those of other team members for multiple projects

- Experience with legal terms and structures for standard commercial contracts
- Knowledge of sourcing/procurement building systems and maintenance vendor management and customer service
- Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Experience with AutoCAD and/or Building Information Modeling (BIM) as well as scheduling software (Primavera MS Project or similar)
- Demonstrated capability in the planning design review and implementation and project management /control of new structures & the enhancement of existing facility buildings.
- Demonstrated success in communicating project requirements to various audiences (e.g. senior management peers public officials vendors etc.)
- Demonstrated success in communicating project requirements to various audiences (e.g. senior management peers fire marshals utility public officials vendors etc.)

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