Data Center Build & Delivery Lead

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Construction Manager to lead construction projects for new and existing data centers.

You will be on site daily, drive cost, schedule and quality, manage vendors and contractors, and partner with Operations, Networking, Controls and Security teams to deliver reliable, energy-efficient facilities. You will interface with general contractors through bidding to hand‑off, perform constructability reviews, track submittals, change orders and

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• The Data Center Construction Manager will be responsible for 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.
• Conduct negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy.
• Create construction project scope and requests for proposals.
• Perform financial analysis of construction.
• Manage construction projects for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centers.
• Conduct constructability reviews of electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centers or optimization of existing data centers.
• Manage construction documents including submittal review, RFIs, change orders, and invoicing.
• Ensure construction project quality control.
• Record and report key construction metrics to team members and management.
• Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and root-cause failure analysis associated with equipment failures.
• Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.

Skills

Construction leadership

Negotiation

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related field

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or related field OR 9 years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

MS Excel

Word

Windows OS

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Construction Manager to lead construction projects for new and existing data centers.

You will be on site daily, drive cost, schedule and quality, manage vendors and contractors, and partner with Operations, Networking, Controls and Security teams to deliver reliable, energy-efficient facilities. You will interface with general contractors through bidding to hand‑off, perform constructability reviews, track submittals, change orders and