Basic qualifications

• Experience managing efforts in developing data center focused projects of all sizes.
• 3+ Years experience in Data Center Engineering or Data Center Operations and 3+ Years experience in Construction Management
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to maintain vendor relationships

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.

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth! Amazon is a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. If you'd like to help us build, this is the job for you.

We are currently seeking an energetic Data Center Project Manager to manage and deliver projects within Amazon data centers. You will be part of a highly creative, efficient team tasked with tackling challenging problems that come with delivering projects in a live data center. The Project Manager is ultimately responsible for project oversight and review of all disciplines including electrical, mechanical, controls, and architectural. A fundamental understanding of these systems is required, as the individual will be expected to identify areas for improvement as well as act on data provided from other teams and organizations. Ideal candidates will possess the ability identify and deploy innovative solutions to address operational challenges. This role requires both independent contribution as well as the ability to work across stakeholder teams. The scope of projects will include but not limited to the improvement of electrical, mechanical, fire detection and building automation systems. The Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.

If you are passionate about the customer experience and you want to contribute to the operational excellence of Amazon data centers then this may be the challenge you’ve been looking for!

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

Project management and oversight of construction related activities within a live data center.
Responsible for the delivery of the project scope, timeline, and budget.
Provide project management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centers.
Electrical design and review of designs associated with the optimization of existing data centers.
Construction/project package drawing review.
Creation of project scope, request for proposals, and capital requests.
Total project quality including the oversight of the execution.
Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and management.
Concurrently managing multiple projects associated with existing data centers.
Operational support including review of procedures, best practices, and maintenance initiatives.
Drive teams to perform troubleshooting and root cause failure analysis associated with equipment or electrical failures.
Work with contractors and vendors to deliver efficient and high quality project turnovers.
Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.
Travel to data center sites for engineering evaluations, electrical systems audits, and mechanical system
Strategic and tactical management of capacity delivery within their region.
In addition this individual must possess the following abilities:
An ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs with no impact on quality and reliability.
The ability to perform complex business case analysis to justify the project scope and present the justification to management in a high level review.

A day in the life
A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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About the team
Critical Projects Implementation (CPI) is a project management and execution team that operates within operational data center spaces, as an entity of Data Center Capacity Delivery (DCCD). Our team is tasked with critical infrastructure improvement projects to optimize capacity, critical power, and cooling at deployed sites globally that exceed the scope of regular preventative maintenance and engineering operations. Projects also include Reworks and Conversions (RWK/CON), Infills (INF), Upgrades (UPG) and Data Center Capital Improvement (DCCI) projects. Over 90% of CPI work is conducted around, above, adjacent, or under operational racks and supporting equipment in the data center spaces. The team is established in three primary regions (AMER, APJC and EMEA). Each region includes regional managers that are supported directly by cluster managers and project managers. In larger regions, area managers are responsible for oversight of specific availability zones (AZs) to support the project managers. CPI project managers work at the data centers and have the direct responsibility of managing yellow badge labor force to conduct work. The project managers relay consistent communication about safety, security, availability, and schedules to project stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• College/Technical Degree or equivalent professional experience in Engineering, or Technical Project Management.
• Direct and relevant experience in Data Center Engineering Operations, with a deep understanding of electrical and mechanical data center infrastructure
• Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects

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