Senior Value & Cost Engineering Leader AI-Enabled

Amazon; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Value Engineering Manager to own cost engineering and value engineering on large-scale construction projects and to shape AI-powered cost intelligence across our global network.

You will lead bottom-up estimating, should-cost benchmarking, and cost optimization while partnering with design, sourcing, and project teams to ensure quality, constructability, and schedule alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience as an Architect, Engineer, Construction Manager, Development Manager, Owner's project management representative or in other Commercial Development and Construction related disciplines.
• Experience developing bottom-up cost models, should-cost models, cost benchmarks, cost driver analysis, and analytical frameworks to support complex construction or capital investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver independent, bottom-up construction cost estimates for North America Design & Construction stakeholders across retrofit, expansion, and new-build projects spanning multiple building types and fulfillment network segments.
• Develop cost estimates from early-stage concepts through RFP-ready construction documents, selecting appropriate methodologies and analytical depth based on project maturity and available information.
• Own estimating strategies for repeatable multi-site programs by developing scalable templates while producing detailed bottom-up estimates for complex, site-specific projects requiring advanced analytical judgment.
• Generate conceptual ROM estimates to support early project planning, business case development, investment decisions, and funding approvals.
• Lead should-cost modeling, benchmarking, and Value Engineering analyses to identify cost optimization opportunities while preserving design intent, quality, constructability, schedule, and operational requirements.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to improve estimating efficiency through automated data gathering, benchmarking, and cost analysis while applying engineering judgment to validate outputs and resolve complex or ambiguous scopes.
• Drive development of scalable AI-enabled estimating solutions by curating project and market cost data, validating model performance, and identifying opportunities to automate routine estimating activities.
• Partner with preconstruction managers, design engineers, sourcing teams, category managers, and business stakeholders to validate assumptions, communicate cost risks, evaluate alternatives, and influence cost-informed decisions throughout project development.
• Establish estimating best practices through peer reviews, continuous improvement initiatives, and maintenance of current labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and market pricing databases to ensure consistent, accurate, and defensible cost models.

Skills

Cost estimation

AI & automation

Data management

Cost benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, or related field

Tools

CostX

Estimating systems

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Senior Value Engineering Manager to own cost engineering and value engineering on large-scale construction projects and to shape AI-powered cost intelligence across our global network.

You will lead bottom-up estimating, should-cost benchmarking, and cost optimization while partnering with design, sourcing, and project teams to ensure quality, constructability, and schedule alignment.