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As the GES Construction Manager, you are a customer obsessed leader in the Amazon construction process. In this role, you will be integral in implementing the facility network infrastructure, including sortation centers, delivery stations, and auxiliary buildings supporting those facilities. The construction projects may include new builds, retrofits, and expansions.

You will be required to perform detailed deep dive reviews of job budgets and schedules identifying and resolving any discrepancies, including contractor bid packages. You will partner with internal customers and external stakeholders to earn their trust and engage as a team to deliver results. You will be charged to ensure information is being communicated to internal and external stakeholders in an effective and timely manner.

Some key competencies of this position include; insisting on the highest standards, ensuring that contracted resources deliver work meeting duration and quality targets, coaching all project teams (developers, design engineers, contractors), thinking big (seeking better ways to serve your customers), influencing internal stakeholders while holding them accountable for their actions, ensuring all job internal and external team members are on point and maintaining schedules and budgets, inventing and simplifying innovative solutions that allow for improved processes and results, and overseeing more than one project in various locations simultaneously. This opportunity combines construction engineering, planning, project management, facilities management, and contract management.
This role requires up to 60% regional travel and availability to work from a corporate office when not traveling.

Candidates should either live near or be willing to relocate within a reasonable commuting distance of the office. Relocation assistance may be provided.
Key job responsibilities
Supervising the implementation and management of Amazon's safety programs and standards with the entire internal and external project team.
Manage a project, problem resolution or effort
Ensure that the skills and competencies of contract labor are appropriate to need and fit to undertake the work

Operate independently in the assigned region, interacting with leadership and stakeholders to resolve issues.
Comprehensive budget and schedule tracking and forecasting are fundamental responsibilities. Striving for frugality and accomplishing more with less while identifying and solving factors that may impede a successful project hand-over to Amazon stakeholders.

Interfacing and coordinating with the authorities that have jurisdiction (AHJ) on the project to ensure regulatory compliance and smooth job execution.
Advise on the impact of change on time, cost and permitting.
Maintaining internal and external stakeholders up to date on all pertinent information through comprehensive and timely communication.
A day in the life
Each day you will act as owner to ensure the safe on-time and in-budget execution of Amazon construction projects

Daily tasks may be comprised of site management, coordinating with contractors on projected changes and project status, ensuring contractors are meeting their contractual obligations, seeking sustainable environmentally friendly solutions throughout the construction process while implementing Amazon's building environmentally friendly practices, and utilizing the Amazon information systems to record and update scheduling, budget, and other key developments. You may be negotiating terms of contracts with contractors all the while driving contractors to meet or exceed agreed-to schedules and budgets. Additionally, you will represent Amazon's interests in weekly architect, owner and contractor (AOC) meetings providing input on root causes and corrective action.

About the team
At Amazon, we are all Owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything through design review, construction bidding, construction execution, and final hand-off to our customers. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team of engineers and managers working daily to develop the innovative physical assets our Customers expect and striving to be the Earth's best employer. .