Construction Manager, DCCD

Job :  | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Amazon Web Services Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We keep the cloud running, supporting all AWS data centers, servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment to ensure customers have continual access to innovation. We work on challenging problems impacting the supply chain and look for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and others to deliver the highest standards for safety, security, and capacity at the lowest possible cost.

AWS powers millions of users worldwide, and our support team is one of the fastest growing business units within AWS, focused on innovating and improving customer success, trust, and experiences. Our team supports every AWS service and account, obsessively creating exceptional customer experiences.

• Build a research roadmap and communicate it regularly to ensure relevance.
• Identify best methods or a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods based on research questions, timelines, and resources.
• Build and continuously improve a robust approach to gather customer insights and collaborate with other research teams across Amazon to align on best practices.
• Design, conduct, and analyze a variety of research studies including usability lab studies, remote research, field studies and survey design.
• Recruit and schedule usability participants for research studies.
• Provide direction and vision for evolving the role of research in product development; identify opportunities to increase efficiency and impact.
• Build positive, collaborative relationships across User Experience Design, Product Management, and Development teams.
• Synthesize primary and secondary data to perform quick and thorough analyses leading to focused, insightful, and actionable findings.
• Persuade decision makers at all levels of the organization to take aligned action on research findings and inspire them to internalize opportunities to delight customers.
• Develop insight-based knowledge management frameworks to drive decision‑making and prioritization of investments.

• Responsible for construction project management and oversight of construction‑related activities for new builds or capital projects, owning project scope, quality, schedule, and budget.
• Direct interface with construction general contractors during bidding, award, execution, and project closeout/punch list phases.
• Conduct negotiations with general contractors and evaluate bids/proposals accurately.
• Create construction project scope and request for proposals.
• Perform financial analysis of construction projects.
• Manage construction of initiatives to increase resiliency of data centers.
• Conduct constructability reviews of electrical and mechanical designs for new or optimized data centers.
• Manage construction documents including submittals, RFIs, change orders, and invoicing.
• Ensure construction quality control.
• Record and report key construction metrics.
• Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and root‑cause failure analysis for equipment failures.
• Lead within the group and among internal and external teams supporting the data center.
• Read and interpret construction specifications and drawings for all disciplines.
• Define data center system‑level architecture, specify/document performance and equipment requirements, and maintain project documentation.
• Experience with large‑scale technical operations or compute farms.
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations:
  Life Safety, BOCA, NFPA, NEC, OSHA.
• Experience in controls and commissioning of large‑scale projects.
• Experience with power management and power monitoring systems.
• Certifications:
  
  Professional Engineer (PE), LEED, Certified Construction Manager (CCM).

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems.
• 5+ years of construction management of large, complex…