Pre-Construction Manager, Grocery Industrial Team

at Amazon in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description

Amazon opened its doors in 1995 and strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

The Pre-Construction Manager will be a key part of the Grocery Industrial team and will be responsible for project managing new building planning, design and pre-construction. This will include the extension of existing facilities and any new sites.

The Pre-Construction Manager will play an integral role in the development and implementation of the grocery facility network infrastructure. This role will analyze and evaluate different facility scenarios and build-out designs. Candidates will manage 3rd party Design and Engineering teams from the inception of a project through permit. In addition, this candidate has to support the standardization of the technical and facility related processes and systems.

This opportunity combines construction engineering, planning, project management, facilities management, and contract management. It requires a person who can show proven ability in planning and design, and project and program management within existing buildings that will remain in operation during construction. Experience with working in an ambiguous environment is essential for success.

Key job responsibilities

- Hire and/or manage assigned architectural/engineering consultants for the implementation of retrofit requirements, ensuring close alignment with approved design standards.

- Coordinate with multiple, internal functional teams, ensuring appropriate inputs are considered in shell design changes.

- Develop initial design and construction concept schedule for construction phasing as necessary.

- Creation of construction estimates for capital requests, and other planning efforts.

- Maintain project/program schedules, communicating and proposing risk mitigation strategies.

- Develop and provide supporting documents for AHJ and land lord approval – for example, scope summaries, cost estimates, design documents, and AHJ required applications.

- Support/guide client decision making based on due diligence efforts.

- Coordinate the GC hiring process with the construction management team.

- Provide complete and accurate documentation for construction handoff including but not limited to contracts, drawings, permit status, landlord approval, capital request and approvals, external supplier (i.e. utility) coordination status efforts, and any other work product that has been completed by Pre-Construction.

- Maintain repository for all pre-construction work product by site.

- Ability to travel throughout North America approximately 20% of the time.

A day in the life

Each day you will represent WWRGD – Grocery Industrial Team in ensuring the on time and in budget execution of Amazon construction projects, while strategically improving processes. Daily tasks may comprise of construction coordination management and design document development with various consultants on projected changes, project status, ensuring consultants are meeting contractual obligations, and utilizing the Amazon information systems to record and update scheduling, budget and other key developments. Each day you will be navigating through uncertainty, proactively unblocking project barriers and influencing the best project decisions. You will be negotiating terms of contracts with developers, contractors and consultants all the while driving to meet or exceed schedules and budgets of the approved scope. 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. You will represent Amazon’s interests in weekly architect, owner and contractor (AOC) meetings providing input on root causes and corrective action. Additionally, you will participate in weekly meetings providing input on root causes and corrective action as may be require. You will lead multiple medium sized to large sized projects of varying sizes and functions. You will be tactical and strategic working independently, interacting with leadership to resolve issues. You will provide estimating support, interpret drawings, contribute to budgets and approve lease exhibits. Pre-construction management also includes site validation, design management and validation of checklists and construction documentation. For jurisdictional coordination you will understand zoning/planning, fire code and building code. You will lead large cross functional teams establishing confidence in the Amazon business and architecture/engineering community. You act as the primary escalation point for project team members; owning and tracking issues to ensure that they are addressed, documented, and resolved using influence to manage team members.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we’d still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

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 innovative buildings for our customers. We focus on Delivering Results, our speed for Bias for Action and Insisting on the Highest Standards for our customers.

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of project management, real estate development, architecture/design experience

- Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

- An advanced degree, certification or Master’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or Masters of Business.

- Experience operating within at least two disciplines in the construction industry, which could consist of General Contracting, Owner’s Representation, Commercial Development, Engineering & Design, owners project management representative or similar.

- Demonstrated capability in the planning, design review & implementation, and project management /control of new structures & the enhancement of existing facility buildings.

- Experience managing multi-disciplinary design incorporating industrial automation, robotics, or similar.

- Demonstrated success in communicating project requirements to various audiences (e.g. senior management, peers, public officials, vendors, etc.)

- – Knowledge of Building Information Modeling (BIM).

- Demonstrated success in communicating project requirements to various audiences (e.g. senior management, peers, fire marshals, utility, public officials, vendors, etc.)

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