Value Engineering Manager, Value Engineering

About This Role

This high-impact and technically demanding role involves partnering with Amazon's North America Design & Construction stakeholders to deliver construction cost engineering and value engineering services. The manager will optimize design, validate costs, and inform capital investment decisions across Amazon's infrastructure network, working with a diverse portfolio of building types, material handling equipment, automation, and capital projects.

Responsibilities

• Deliver independent, bottom-up cost estimates for construction, equipment, and capital investment projects across Amazon's global portfolio, spanning retrofit, expansion, new-build, automation, and equipment deployment initiatives
• Develop cost estimates from early-stage concepts through supplier selection and implementation, adapting methodologies and analytical depth to available project information and design maturity
• Build and maintain scalable estimating models and templates while developing detailed bottom-up cost models for complex, site-specific initiatives requiring advanced analytical judgment
• Perform should-cost modeling, benchmarking, and Value Engineering analyses to evaluate design alternatives, optimize specifications, identify cost drivers, and ensure Amazon is buying the right solution at the right price
• Leverage AI-powered tools to automate data gathering, cost modeling, benchmarking, and pattern recognition while applying engineering judgment to validate outputs and resolve complex or ambiguous scopes
• Drive the development of scalable AI-enabled cost intelligence solutions by curating project and market data, validating model performance, and identifying opportunities to automate routine analytical activities
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Construction, Procurement, Category Management, and business stakeholders to validate assumptions, communicate cost risks, evaluate alternatives, and influence sourcing and investment decisions
• Peer review cost models, estimates, and Value Engineering recommendations to ensure technical rigor, consistency, and alignment with current market conditions and best practices

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps)
• Experience in program or project management
• Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Experience in defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics
• Experience in supply chain
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Nice to have:

• Experience in driving end-to-end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience leading process improvements