Construction Project Manager, EMEA Construction (Substations)

Amazon; Milano; In loco; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading cloud infrastructure company is seeking a Construction Project Manager in Milan to oversee HV infrastructure projects. You will manage timelines, budgets, and contractor evaluations, ensuring high-quality execution of substantial construction projects. Ideal candidates have over 7 years of relevant experience and a degree in engineering. This role promotes a collaborative and inclusive work environment, striving for work-life harmony.

Servizi

Inclusive workplace

Diversity-focused culture

Career mentorship

Competenze

• 7+ years of recent experience in construction management of large, complex projects.
• Experience directly related to design and construction of HV substations or large scale projects.
• Experience with large scale technical operations or traditional infrastructure.

Mansioni

• Oversee construction related activities for substations and transmission line projects.
• Manage project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Lead negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids.

Conoscenze

Construction management

Electrical engineering principles

Vendor management

Risk management

Contract negotiation

Team leadership

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Civil Engineering or Construction Management

Descrizione del lavoro

Overview

Amazon's High Voltage (HV) infrastructure assets are industry leading examples of highly efficient, resilient, and sophisticated electrical systems. We are the global team responsible for building the HV infrastructure that powers Amazon's cloud business.

As a Construction Project Manager you will be part of a highly creative, efficient team tasked with tackling fascinating and challenging problems building and delivering HV infrastructure assets. Your work will help to deliver HV infrastructure projects at scale. If you like to leverage engineering knowledge and judgement in construction projects, we’d like to meet you.

The Construction Project Manager is ultimately responsible for the oversight and review of all disciplines including civil, electrical, mechanical, controls, and architectural. The Construction Project Manager will be a leader within cross-functional teams and drive delivery of your assigned projects through the execution stage.

At Amazon we leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the substation, to the server, and back to the cooling systems. We are diverse, upbeat, creative, team of engineers and managers working on a daily basis to develop innovative data centers for our Customers.

The role will be based in Milan - Italy.

Key job responsibilities

• The role will involve construction project management and oversight of construction related activities as they relate to new substation and transmission line projects in Italy. This will include the ownership of the project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Direct interface with construction general contractors during bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
• Work with general contractors and vendors to deliver efficient and high quality project turn-overs in line with electrical utility requirements.
• Lead negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
• Creation of construction project scope and request for proposals.
• Construction submittal review.
• Construction project quality control including the creation of a commissioning plan and support of the commissioning process.
• Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.
• Concurrently managing multiple projects.
• Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and senior management.
• Capital requests/financial analysis of construction work including change orders, purchase orders, and invoicing.
• Oversee 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.
• Negotiating easements/wayleaves with land owners, utilities, etc.
• Value engineering: reduce costs through creative solutions with no impact on quality and reliability (new designs, technology, or construction methods).
• Travel to sites for leadership walk downs, audits, inspections, start-up testing, and full commissioning.
• Travel to other sites in the EMEA region up to 40% of time.

A day in the life

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re 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 we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll 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 you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

• 7+ years of recent experience in construction management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) plants.
• Demonstrated understanding of electrical engineering principles including breaker coordination studies and switchgear sequence of operation.
• Demonstrated understanding of mechanical engineering principles for cooling systems.
• Demonstrated contractor and vendor management experience (request for proposals, bidding, change orders) associated with construction and project execution.
• Experience directly related to the design and construction of HV substations or large scale mechanical and electrical plants.
• Experience with large scale technical operations, mission-critical mechanical/electrical infrastructure, or large-scale compute farms.
• Experience dealing with location-specific electrical utility providers.
• Experience of risk and change management through procurement, delivery and handover of design and build projects.
• Experience of leading contract and commercial negotiations and administration of design and build projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management or an equivalent engineering science OR 4+ years of related construction management experience in lieu of a degree.

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