Description
As the Global Engineering Services (GESS) Senior Preconstruction Manager, you are responsible for project/program management for building industrial development including new builds, retrofits, expansion, and program initiatives from site selection through contract execution in a region. Pre-Construction services refers to the planning of a construction project before the actual construction begins. You will partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure scope, budget, and schedule definition are established including timely receipt of building and site permits. You are responsible as the senior project manager to lead planning, design and pre-construction projects, including new built-to-suit industrial buildings, tenant improvements, extensions of existing facilities and renovation projects serving major business customers within your region. You are executing deliverables with limited oversight, providing guidance on complicated technical, construction documentation, jurisdictional or regulatory requirement and permitting issues. Mentoring and guiding best practices in stakeholder management and project delivery. Uses advanced professional concepts to resolves complex issues in creative and effective ways driving results and leads independently in problem solving activities.
The senior preconstruction manager is responsible for the planning and design of scope, budget, schedule prior to handing off to the construction manager to construct focusing on taking ownership to resolve upstream issues and support the construction team throughout the process. They show outstanding judgment when driving project escalations. Delivers solutions and results that meet standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, and operational excellence. Have a have a broad perspective and understand how these components drive successful programs, business portfolios, and not just projects.
Key competencies of this position include ensuring that contracted resources deliver work product in support of project durations, permitting, key performance indicators (KPI), quality documentation/artifacts, managing project teams (developers, design engineers, professional consultants), influencing internal teams (Design Engineering, Amazon Robotics), contract management governance, conceptual estimating and budget oversight and overseeing multiple large industrial projects in various locations simultaneously. Translating technical documents and information into an end-to-end story providing a detailed risk analysis for our leaders and customers is essential. This opportunity combines construction engineering, planning, project management, real estate development, validating design, site visits, understanding local building and fire code issues, utilities, sustainability, multi-disciplinary design management, and contract management.
Key job responsibilities
• Guides preconstruction managers in best practices in stakeholder management and project delivery.
• Independently manages difficult, cross-functional industrial builds from site selection through design completion, permitting and contract execution. You will be working independently in assigned regional area, interacting with leadership and stakeholders to resolve issues.
• You will work with internal/external teams including real estate, design engineering, entitlements, construction, finance, launch/startup, architects, engineers, permitting agencies, developers and landlords to secure resources, scope infrastructure builds, set priorities, milestones and drive delivery to meet deadlines.
• A senior preconstruction manager drives results through communicating, weighing risks, making decisions, leading and influencing. You will competently represent project and technical information to many different audiences. You have good working relationships with stakeholders and vendors, and lead constructive dialogue to resolve and prevent project issues.
• You manage vendor procurement, and oversee professional service providers ensuring their skills and competencies meet the needs required of entitling property and projects. You perform pricing reviews for scope inclusions/exclusions and negotiate the cost of the work with the developer, general contractor and design consultants.
• Cost estimating, schedule tracking, and forecasting are fundamental components, including identifying and solving factors that may impede a successful permitted project hand-over to Amazon stakeholders.
• Travel up to 40% within assigned regions
A day in the life
Each day you will represent GESS in ensuring the on time and in budget execution of Amazon construction projects, while strategically improving processes while mentoring your peers. leveraging project management principles and analytics to identify, avoid or correct issues. You will leverage your experience and tools to understand where gaps exist in project plans and propose solutions. Executing day-to-day leading medium to large complex due diligence, design and construction development for projects with unique development/permit and entitlement challenges. You will work independently leading a region or program interacting with leadership to resolve issues and are 60% tactical and 40% strategic.
About the team
At Amazon, we are all owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the design review, permitting to construction bidding and consultant during construction execution prior to final hand-off to our internal stakeholder. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team of designers, engineers and managers working daily to develop innovative sustainable facilities and efficient innovative buildings for our customers. We focus on Delivering Results, our speed for Bias for Action and Insisting on the Highest Standards for our customers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Atlanta, GA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Houston, TX, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | San Jose, CA, USA | Tempe, AZ, USA
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of project management, real estate development, architecture/design experience
Bachelor's degree
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in project management, real estate development, architecture/designAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $72,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $181,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.