Pre-Construction Manager, Transportation Engineering Services

As the Transportation Engineering Services (TES) Preconstruction Manager, you are responsible for managing facility network infrastructure development including new builds, retrofits, expansion, and program initiatives from site selection through contract execution. 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 for leading project management, planning, design and pre-construction projects, including new built-to-suit industrial buildings, tenant improvements, extensions of existing facilities and renovation 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. This opportunity combines construction engineering, planning, project management, real estate development, multi-disciplinary design management, and contract management.
Key job responsibilities
Independently manage cross-functional infrastructure builds from site selection through design completion, permitting and contract execution.
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 drive delivery to meet deadlines
You will represent project and technical information to many different audiences. You have good working relationships with stakeholders and vendors, and lead constructive dialogue to resolve project issues.
You oversee professional service providers. You perform pricing reviews for scope inclusions/exclusions and negotiate the cost of the work.
Cost estimating, schedule tracking, and identifying and solving factors that may impede a successful permitted project hand-over to Amazon stakeholders.
You are focused on site selection, scope development, coordinating with design teams to develop site plans, composite floor plans in compliance with design standards and operational requirements.
You prepare and present project status/risk reports, and provide clear and concise summaries for projects under your ownership to leadership and management teams
You understand design and construction contracts, related exhibits, and provide detailed analysis and approvals of technical matters and site-specific deal structures. You review additional reports such as noise and traffic reports and environmental studies.
A day in the life
Daily tasks may comprise of design document development with various consultants, ensuring consultants are meeting contractual obligations, and utilizing the Amazon information systems to record project status. Each day you will navigate through uncertainty, proactively unblocking project barriers. You will participate in weekly meetings providing input on root causes and corrective action as may be require. You will lead multiple medium sized projects over 100,000 sf. and will be tactical and strategic working independently, interacting with leadership to resolve issues. Pre-construction management also includes site validation, design management. For jurisdictional coordination you will understand zoning/planning, fire code and building code.
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 infrastructure 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 | Irvine, CA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Tempe, AZ, USA