The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team provides real estate transaction expertise, business partnering, space & occupancy planning, design and construction, capital investment program management and facility maintenance and operations for Amazon’s corporate office portfolio across multiple countries. The Workplace Design and Construction team under GREF is looking for a Pre-Construction Manager to drive pre-construction services on projects, including new builds, retrofits, expansion, and program initiatives from site selection and program development through construction contract execution. You will act as the project manager to lead pre-construction planning for projects of many types, including tenant improvements, extensions of existing facilities, and renovation projects.
Key competencies of this position include ensuring on-time delivery from contracted resources of work product, permitting, key performance indicators (KPI), and quality documentation/artifacts, managing project teams (developers, design engineers, professional consultants), influencing internal teams, contract management governance, conceptual estimating, and budget oversight, and overseeing multiple projects in various locations simultaneously. This opportunity combines construction engineering, planning, project management, real estate development, validating design, site visits, understanding local building and fire code issues, utilities, sustainability, multi-disciplinary design management, and contract management. The preconstruction manager is responsible for the planning and design of scope, budget, and schedule prior to handing off to a construction manager, focusing on taking ownership to resolve upstream issues, and supporting the construction team throughout the process.
Ensure project funding is secured to enable on time and under budget project execution.
• Establish Schedule Dependencies for initial project approval and project delivery.
• Manage working relationships with stakeholders and vendors and lead constructive dialogue to resolve and prevent project issues.
• Perform pricing reviews for scope inclusions/exclusions and negotiate the cost of the work with landlords, general contractors, and design consultants.
• Supervise the implementation and management of Amazon’s safety programs and standards with the internal and external project team.
• Coordinate with design teams to develop site plans in compliance with design standards and operational requirements.
• Prepare project status/risk reports and concise summaries to present to leadership and management teams.
• Coordinate with the authorities that have jurisdiction (AHJ) on the project to ensure regulatory compliance and smooth job execution.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or comparable field.
• Demonstrated experience as an Architect, Engineer, Construction Manager and/or Estimator, Development Manager, Owner’s project management representative or other Commercial Development and Construction related disciplines.
• Project management experience managing multiple projects across numerous sites and regions from design phase through implementation and operation, including negotiating construction, procurement, and labor contracts.