Data Center Construction Manager

Amazon Inc.; New Carlisle (IN); On-site; USD 153,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Indiana is seeking a Manager of Construction to lead data center build projects from start to hand-off. You will own scope, schedule, budget, and coordinate with Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning to deliver high-availability facilities.

You'll guide construction teams, inspect trades on site, and represent the owner’s representative daily while driving cost, quality, and schedule to meet customer demands and safety standards.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of management experience.
• 4+ years of general contractor and vendor management on construction projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Be Amazon’s construction representative on multiple data center building and capital improvement construction project sites from construction start through hand-off to operations.
• Direct interface with construction general contractors during the construction bidding, award, execution, punch-list, and closeout phases.
• Create construction project Scope of Work (SOW) and Request for Proposals (RFP).
• Conduct negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids and proposals with detail and accuracy.
• Manage and drive cost, schedule, and quality while managing construction contractors and vendors.
• Perform construction project management activities, including management of documents, submittals, RFIs, change orders, invoices, quality, scope, and schedule.
• Drive construction teams to troubleshoot and perform root‑cause failure analysis on equipment failures.
• Support commissioning and integrated system testing and oversight.
• Support operations of installed facilities, including review of procedures, best practices, and maintenance initiatives.
• Support capital request creation.
• Analyze and report construction progress and financials.
• Record and report key construction metrics to team members and management.
• Contribute to construction initiatives aimed at improving construction efficiency and increasing data center resiliency.
• Provide constructability reviews for civil, structural, electrical and mechanical designs for new or optimization of existing data centers.
• Be a leader within the group, and within internal and external data center support teams.

Skills

Management experience

Vendor management

Project management

Education

Electrical/Mechanical Engineering degree

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Indiana is seeking a Manager of Construction to lead data center build projects from start to hand-off. You will own scope, schedule, budget, and coordinate with Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning to deliver high-availability facilities.

You'll guide construction teams, inspect trades on site, and represent the owner’s representative daily while driving cost, quality, and schedule to meet customer demands and safety standards.