Building Early Life-cycle Project Mgr., DBX (Design and Building Excellence)

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Greater London is seeking an Early Life-cycle Project Manager to support construction phases and equipment qualification. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of relevant project management experience and a Bachelor's degree. Responsibilities include managing projects, leading teams, and ensuring quality control across multiple locations. The role involves travel up to 40% for vendor qualification and commissioning, with a focus on continuous improvement throughout the construction lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing large projects.
• Experience in project and program management.
• Experience in Greenfield infrastructure building.

Responsibilities

• Travel up to 40% to witness commissioning.
• Manage projects and generate reports.
• Lead scheduling for base building qualification.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Lean Management

Six Sigma

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in engineering or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Building Early Life-cycle Project Mgr., DBX (Design and Building Excellence)

Job ID: 3142516 | Amazon UK Services Ltd.

The Global Central Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) team is seeking for a Early Life-cyle Project Manager (ELM PM) for Base Building!

Amazon’s mission is to be the earth’s most customer-centric company with a unique culture built on pioneering into unknown and new frontiers.

The Base Building ELM Project Manager supports the construction phases, building equipment qualification with major focus on Fire Life Safety, Electrical, HVAC (Heat and Ventilation Air Conditioning) and BMS (Building Management Systems. ELM PM is working with data to find root causes of top installation and commissioning issues and generate improvements on further launches and retrofits across Europe. Join us to provide customers with an incredible package delivery experience by working in reliable and maintainable facilities.

Key job responsibilities

• Travel up to 40% of the time to witness commissioning and vendor qualification
• Manage independently projects and initiatives, generate reports and KPIs management for significant milestones
• Lead scheduling for base building qualification, identification of the milestones at installation and operational to trigger quality inspections and equipment acceptance criteria for base building equipment.
• Lead change management for development of Building templates specification and site specific composites
• Lead continuous improvement for all new buildings including cross functional collaboration other teams with Design and Construction, Procurement, Launch and Execution, Subject Matter Experts, vendors
• Improve 3P vendor' templates for report and calculate cost of poor quality
• Integrate Amazon policies, specification and validate this via checklist and documentation handover requirements
• Capture lessons-learned and develop/execute action plans to improve quality or efficiency of new facility launches and building equipment installation.
• Calculate the anticipated life cycle cost based on quotes from repairs and hours calculation for quality deviations and embed lessons learned at design and commissioning stages.
• Dashboards improvements to evolve new KPIs and checklist management for base building data

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of directly managing and responsible for multiple large projects experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Bachelor's degree, or experience in distribution or manufacturing field with equivalent mechanical or electrical field
• Experience in project and program management and delivering key business outcomes
• Experience within the areas of Greenfield infrastructure building and construction

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering, mechanical, operations, supply chain, business administration, or equivalent STEM field
• Experience in Lean Management, Six Sigma and other operations engineer tools
• Experience using English communication skills, both written and verbal, to foster seamless interaction with stakeholders at all levels
• Experience working in a fast paced, quickly changing or international environment
• Experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes, and make data-driven decisions
• Experience prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at any given time while maintaining commitment to deadlines

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