Construction Project Manager, EMEA Construction

About This Role

This role involves managing construction projects for Amazon's data centers across EMEA, focusing on new builds and general capital projects. It suits a construction manager who can oversee all disciplines from civil to commissioning, ensuring compliance with contracts and delivering high-quality, energy-efficient data centers.

Responsibilities

• Manage construction projects and oversee construction-related activities for new builds or general capital projects, including ownership of project scope, timeline, and budget
• Interface directly with construction general contractors during bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases
• Work with general contractors and vendors to deliver efficient and high-quality project turn-overs
• Lead negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals with detail and accuracy
• Create construction project scope and requests for proposals
• Handle capital requests/financial analysis of construction work, including change orders, purchase orders, and invoicing
• Manage construction projects for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of data centers
• Review electrical and mechanical designs associated with the construction of new data centers or the optimization of existing data centers
• Review construction submittals
• Control construction project quality, including creating a commissioning plan and supporting the commissioning process
• Record and report key construction metrics to team members and management
• Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and root-cause failure analysis associated with equipment or electrical failures
• Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Experience carrying new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems
• Experience with power management and power monitoring systems

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of critical data center equipment
• Knowledge of engineering documentation, electrical diagrams and standard operating procedures
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, BOCA, NFPA, NEC, or OSHA
• Experience in project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure
• Experience in Data Center Engineering Operations, with a deep understanding of electrical and mechanical data center infrastructure
• Experience reading and interpreting construction specifications and drawings for all domains