Americas Regional Design Lead – Data Center Infrastructure

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 117,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Regional Design Manager to lead data center design across the Americas, driving quality, schedule, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with architects, engineers, and operations to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure that underpins AWS services. The role requires influencing internal and external partners, managing escalations, and traveling to project sites as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Structural, Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in project management or management consulting including handling multiple ongoing projects.
• Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams of discipline leads to deliver globally consistent data center designs across Americas within schedule and cost constraints.
• Able to influence internal stakeholders, internal customers (operations), and external consultants to address program wide design changes
• Manage escalations from the design team and collaborate with procurement, construction and external consultants
• Effectively communicate with AWS Leadership and external project partners, including the creation, tracking & reporting of metrics related to schedule, cost, and quality Throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Think outside of the box to find innovative solutions prior to and during the construction process to reduce contract change orders without negative impacts on quality or reliability.
• Drive speed, quality, and simplification by eliminating rework loops, reducing and automating manual work and hand-offs, identifying and implementing best practices across the business, and minimizing process variability through standardization and automation.
• Create global best practice documentation and facilitate sharing across the globe.
• Ability to motivate others to achieve impeccable quality in an explosive growth and deadline-driven environment.
• Travel for site assessments, internal design meetings, construction review, and interfacing with design consultants. Anticipated travel not to exceed 25%. International travel may be needed.

Skills

Industrial engineering

Project management

Reading drawings

Life cycle design

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Structural, Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Regional Design Manager to lead data center design across the Americas, driving quality, schedule, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with architects, engineers, and operations to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure that underpins AWS services. The role requires influencing internal and external partners, managing escalations, and traveling to project sites as needed.