Senior Industrial Construction Manager (Ground-Up Projects)

Amazon; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Construction Manager for the Worldwide Grocery Real Estate & Store Development team in the United States.

You will drive construction for ground-up and retrofit industrial facilities, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to meet timelines and budgets. The role emphasizes preconstruction thinking, cost control, and collaboration with real estate, design, and operations partners to deliver high‑quality facilities at scale across a national footprint.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management, real estate development, architecture/design experience.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• 10+ years of experience in land development, industrial construction, including greenfield ground-up preconstruction and onsite construction.

Responsibilities

• Ensure project quality expectations are achieved from Design Development to Commissioning.
• Organize and monitor concurrent projects with a high level of quality and communication in accordance with deadlines.
• Proactively identify and solutions to mitigate project impacts
• Influence internal and external business partners.
• Problem-solve creatively and negotiate tradeoffs to meet project goals.
• Participate in design development to ensure constructability and cost requirements are met, improving speed to market and simplifying means and methods.
• Ensure scope clarity and field coordination to improve speed to market and cost controls.
• Develop budgets leveraging historical cost data and market conditions to inform feasibility and capital planning.
• Create and maintain milestone schedules tracking critical path activities from preconstruction through closeout.
• Lead value engineering efforts to optimize costs while maintaining design intent and quality standards.
• Evaluate site utilities to identify constraints, lead times, and coordination requirements early in the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrate understanding of construction phasing and sequencing to inform planning and support efficient turnover strategies.
• Provide contractor accountability, cost performance, and schedule management including permitting, OFI equipment, and inspection protocol.
• Establish relationships and understanding of municipalities’ entitlement/permit processes.
• Travel to job sites up to 50% of the time.

Skills

Project management

Real estate development

Architecture/design experience

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Construction Manager for the Worldwide Grocery Real Estate & Store Development team in the United States.

You will drive construction for ground-up and retrofit industrial facilities, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to meet timelines and budgets. The role emphasizes preconstruction thinking, cost control, and collaboration with real estate, design, and operations partners to deliver high‑quality facilities at scale across a national footprint.