Construction Manager, Transportation Engineering Services Canada

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company in Toronto is looking for a Construction Manager to lead construction projects, ensuring the highest safety standards while managing multiple simultaneous projects. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, extensive project management experience, and strong negotiation skills. This position requires a combination of onsite management and collaboration with various stakeholders. Benefits include comprehensive health coverage, paid time off, and employee retirement plans.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Maternity and Parental Leave Options

Paid Time Off (PTO)

RRSP

Qualifications

• 5+ years as an Architect, Engineer, or Construction Manager.
• 5+ years project management experience from design to operation.
• Experience negotiating contracts in construction.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Amazon’s safety programs and standards.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Coordinate with contractors and stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management

Tools

AutoCAD

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Primavera

MS Project

Job description

Description

As a Construction Manager, you are a customer‑obsessed leader in the Amazon construction process. In this role, you play an integral part in the implementation of the facility network infrastructure—including sortation centers, delivery stations, and auxiliary buildings that support those facilities. The construction projects include new builds, retrofits, and expansions. You are required to perform detailed deep‑dive reviews of job budgets and schedules to identify and resolve any discrepancies, including information in contractor bid packages. You will partner with internal customers and external stakeholders to earn their trust and engage as a team to deliver results. You must ensure information is communicated to internal and external stakeholders in an effective and timely manner. Some key competencies of this position include insisting on the highest standards, ensuring contracted resources deliver work that meets duration and quality targets, coaching developers, design engineers, and contractors during the project duration, seeking better ways to serve Amazon customers, influencing internal stakeholders while holding them accountable for their actions, ensuring all internal and external team members maintain proposed schedules and budgets, inventing and simplifying innovative solutions that allow for improved processes and results, while working on multiple projects in various locations. This opportunity combines construction, engineering, planning, project management, facilities management, and contract management. The Construction Manager position includes approximately 60% travel in North America.

Key job responsibilities

Supervise the implementation and management of Amazon’s safety programs and standards with the entire internal and external project team.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ensure that the skills and competencies of contract labor are appropriate to need and fit to undertake the work
• Operate independently in the assigned role and region; interacting with leadership and stakeholders to resolve issues
• Comprehensive budget and schedule tracking and cash‑flow forecasting.
• Identify and solve for factors that may impede a successful project hand‑over to Amazon stakeholders while striving for frugality and accomplishing more with less
• Interface and coordinate with the authorities that have jurisdiction (AHJ) on projects to maintain regulatory compliance and seamless job execution
• Advise on the impact of changes in schedule, costs, and permitting.
• Maintain internal and external stakeholders up‑to‑date on pertinent information through comprehensive and timely written and oral communication

A day in the life

Daily tasks may be comprised of:

• Site management: coordination with contractors on projected changes and project status
• Ensure contractors are meeting contractual obligations
• Seek sustainable, environmentally‑friendly solutions throughout the construction process while implementing Amazon’s environmentally friendly building practices
• Utilize Amazon information systems to record and update schedule, budget, and other key developments
• Negotiate contract terms with vendors while driving partners to meet or exceed agreed‑to schedules and budgets
• Participate in weekly Architect, Owner, and Contractor (AOC) meetings and provide input on root causes and corrective actions

Benefits Summary

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. RRSP

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!

About the team

At Amazon, we are all Employee Owners who leverage unique opportunities through design review, construction bidding, construction execution, and final hand‑off to our customers. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative team of engineers and managers working to develop the innovative physical assets our customers expect and striving to be the Earth’s best employer.

Basic Qualifications

• A completed Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or comparable field
• 5+ years as an Architect, Engineer, Construction Manager, or other Construction related disciplines
• 5+ years project management experience from design phase through implementation and operation
• 5+ years negotiating construction, procurement and labor contracts
• 5+ years familiarization with AutoCAD and/or Building Information Modeling (BIM), as well as scheduling software (Primavera, MS Project, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with at least two disciplines within the construction industry, which could consist of General Contracting, Owner’s Representation, Commercial Development, or Engineering & Design, or similar. Demonstrated success in communicating project requirements to various audiences (e.g. senior management, peers, public officials, vendors, etc.). Experience inclusive of facilities manager or similar and demonstrated capability in the planning, design review & implementation, and project management / control of new structures & the enhancement of existing facility buildings.
• Experience in program management of concurrent projects
• Project Management accreditation (PMP® or similar)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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