AMER Regional Program Manager, Construction Program Management

Amazon • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation
of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the
cloud running. 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.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply
chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles.
You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest
standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at
the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive
culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

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.

Requirements

• 2+ years of vendor management experience
• 3+ years of relevant work in a data center or other critical environment experience
• 3+ years of data center engineering or operations experience
• 4+ years of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel experience
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or 1+ years of relevant discipline work experience
• Experience in vendor management
• Experience in a data center or other critical environment
• Experience in data center engineering or operations
• Experience with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of construction or project management experience
• Electrical or mechanical Journeyman License
• operating engineering license such as DC II, DC III, or equivalent
• Experience in construction or project management

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level