Senior Pre-Construction Manager

Senior Pre-Construction Manager

The Global Real Estate and Facilities team provides expert guidance on real estate transactions, business partnering, space and occupancy planning, design and construction, capital investment program management, and facility maintenance and operations for Amazon's corporate office portfolio across multiple countries.

We collaborate with suppliers to ensure quality, innovation, and operational excellence align with Amazon's business objectives and leverage customer-driven feedback to continuously improve and exceed employee expectations.

The Workplace Design and Construction team under GREF seeks a Senior 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 partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure scope, budget, and schedule definition are established, including overseeing timely receipt of building and site permits.

You will act as the project manager to lead pre-construction planning for projects of various types, including tenant improvements, extensions of existing facilities, and renovation projects.

Key competencies for 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.

Translating technical documents and information into an end-to-end story providing a detailed risk analysis for our leaders and customers is essential.

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 Senior Pre-Construction 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.

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or comparable field
• 5 years of 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

This role offers a unique opportunity to combine construction engineering, planning, project management, real estate development, and contract management skills.

You will have the chance to work with a dynamic team and contribute to the success of Amazon's corporate office portfolio.

The ideal candidate will be able to adapt to constant change and innovation while finding ways to Think Big, providing solutions for an evolving business.

This position requires travel of up to 25% within assigned regions.

As a Senior Pre-Construction Manager, you will be responsible for managing working relationships with stakeholders and vendors and leading constructive dialogue to resolve and prevent project issues.

You will also supervise the implementation and management of Amazon's safety programs and standards with the internal and external project team.