Regional Program Manager, Construction Program Management; AWS

Regional Program Manager, Construction Program Management

Job :  | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

Amazon’s Data Centers are industry leading examples of innovation in the areas of security, safety, space utilization, efficiency, and cost effectiveness. We are the global team responsible for the construction of the Amazon owned sites. Our Construction Managers are on the forefront of creating and delivering the most innovative products to our customers; and are known for changing the face of cloud computing.

This Regional Construction Program Manager will help implement solutions focused on improving processes, streamlining workflows and creating tools used by the field execution teams to deliver capacity more efficiently. They will work closely with internal and external partner (General Contractors) teams to ensure industry best practices, and innovative ideas, are being considered when new programs are being adopted by the Construction team.

The Regional Construction Program Manager will assist Sr. leadership on determining what key metrics, reports and goals are necessary for new and existing programs to achieve business objectives.

• Lead cross-functional teams and manage programs and processes simultaneously.
• Engage with technical experts and key stakeholders to initiate new programs, including developing new processes and program documentation.
• Identify process and communications gaps, while developing and driving solutions.
• Develop and maintain lessons learned and establish mechanisms to share this with teams.
• Work closely with stakeholders on key program initiatives to develop and implement procedures and systems that continually improve and streamline the program.
• Drive simplification and automation to evolve processes, services, and solutions, to increase agility and efficiencies and lower costs.
• Establish a metrics-driven, programmatic approach to strategic initiatives to develop improvements and efficiencies.
• Gather, define, refine, and drive requirements for program process, standards, and system Implementation requirements needed to monitor & report on construction programs across multiple geographic regions with little or no direction from management.
• Define & evaluate KPIs derived from program milestone, estimate, spend forecast, and cost/resource loaded schedule performance.

This resource can also work from one of the following locations if business need permitting:
Data Center sites located in South Bend / Indiana, Atlanta, Jackson / Mississippi and Herndon / VA.

• 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
• 5+ years of construction or project management experience

• 5+ years of project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure experience
• 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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be…