Senior Construction Manager: Fast-Launch Quick Commerce Builds

Amazon Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 81,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Quick Commerce Construction team is building the infrastructure behind a new way for customers to receive everyday essentials faster. Our mission is to deliver safe, high-quality spaces at speed while balancing cost, quality, and operational needs.

We operate with a builder mentality: challenging traditional construction timelines, simplifying where possible, and developing solutions that can scale. Our culture values ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and practical problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Experience in construction management with ownership of complex projects.
• Experience negotiating construction, procurement, and labor contracts.
• Experience in project management, real estate development, and architecture/design.

Responsibilities

• Own construction execution across a portfolio of Quick Commerce tenant improvement and conversion projects from contractor award through substantial completion, Certificate of Occupancy, turnover, and launch.
• Manage General Contractors, vendors, and consultants, ensuring performance against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety expectations.
• Lead construction RFPs, bid leveling, contractor selection, and GMP development; present budgets, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• Establish and manage project budgets, schedules, scopes, and critical milestones in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serve as Amazon’s primary point of contact during construction, driving alignment across contractors, Design, Pre-Construction, Operations, Launch, landlords, and consultants.
• Monitor progress through site visits, OAC meetings, schedule reviews, and milestone tracking; proactively identify risks and drive mitigation and recovery plans.
• Manage RFIs, submittals, change orders, unforeseen conditions, and schedule impacts while maintaining appropriate cost and schedule controls.
• Coordinate resolution of MEP, life safety, utility, permitting, inspection, and jurisdictional issues impacting project delivery.
• Lead project closeout, commissioning, punch list completion, documentation, and operational turnover.
• Drive continuous improvement and lessons learned to reduce costs, shorten timelines, improve quality, and standardize construction execution across the portfolio.

Skills

5+ years disciplined work

5+ years construction/project mgmt

5+ years negotiating contracts

5+ years PM/real estate/architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in Construction Management/Architecture/Engineering

Job description

Amazon’s Quick Commerce Construction team is building the infrastructure behind a new way for customers to receive everyday essentials faster. Our mission is to deliver safe, high-quality spaces at speed while balancing cost, quality, and operational needs.

We operate with a builder mentality: challenging traditional construction timelines, simplifying where possible, and developing solutions that can scale. Our culture values ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and practical problem-solving.