EMEA Data Centre Construction Lead

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services UK Limited is seeking a Data Centre Senior Construction Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams through new builds and capital projects. You will own project scope, schedule, and budget, and interface with general contractors from bidding to closeout.

Responsibilities include reviewing electrical and mechanical designs, coordinating commissioning, and ensuring safety and cost efficiency across AWS data centres. Experience in data centers and vendor management is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
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Responsibilities

• Construction project management and oversight of construction related activities as they relate to new builds or general capital projects.
• Direct interface with construction general contractors during the bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
• Work with general contractors and vendors to deliver efficient and high quality project turn-overs.
• 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 root-cause failure analysis associated with equipment or electrical failures.
• Role will be based on data centre sites in construction.

Skills

Vendor management

Data center experience

Data center engineering or operations

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)

Job description

Amazon Data Services UK Limited is seeking a Data Centre Senior Construction Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams through new builds and capital projects. You will own project scope, schedule, and budget, and interface with general contractors from bidding to closeout.

Responsibilities include reviewing electrical and mechanical designs, coordinating commissioning, and ensuring safety and cost efficiency across AWS data centres. Experience in data centers and vendor management is required.