Data Center Construction Lead — On‑Site Project Manager

Amazon Inc.; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Construction Manager for Data Center Construction to lead the onsite build of electrical and mechanical systems and manage vendors and contractors involved in new data centers.

You will collaborate with Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient data centers. This role emphasizes leadership, safety, and quality in a fast-paced, customer-focused cloud infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience carrying new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production.
• Experience with MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems.
• Experience with power management and power monitoring systems.

Responsibilities

• 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 request for proposals.
• Financial analysis of construction.
• Construction project management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centers.
• Constructability reviews of electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centers or optimization of existing data centers.
• Construction document management including submittal review, RFI’s, change orders, and invoicing.
• 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

Project management

Data center knowledge

Construction coordination

Negotiation

Education

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

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

Windows OS

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Construction Manager for Data Center Construction to lead the onsite build of electrical and mechanical systems and manage vendors and contractors involved in new data centers.

You will collaborate with Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient data centers. This role emphasizes leadership, safety, and quality in a fast-paced, customer-focused cloud infrastructure environment.