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. We partner with suppliers to ensure quality, innovation and operational excellence with Amazon’s business and utilize customer driven feedback to continuously improve and exceed employee expectations.

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 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 design and 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. 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 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.

This position requires travel up to 40% within assigned regions.

Key job responsibilities
- Ensure project funding is secured to enable on time and under budget project execution.
- Establish Schedule Dependencies for initial project approval and delivery.
- Partner with the Transaction team to ensure leases require Landlord delivery aligned with Amazon’s needs.
- Work with internal stakeholders as well as exterior partners to secure resources, create and uphold contractual terms, and drive delivery.
- Manage working relationships with stakeholders and vendors and lead constructive dialogue to resolve and prevent project issues.
- Manage vendor procurement and oversee professional service providers, ensuring competencies meet needs.
- Perform pricing reviews for scope and negotiate the cost of 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 plans in compliance with standards and operational requirements.
- Prepare project status/risk reports and concise summaries to present to leadership.
- Coordinate with the authorities that have jurisdiction (AHJ) to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Adapt to constant change and innovation while finding ways to Think Big, providing solutions for an evolving business.
- Provide detailed analysis and approvals of technical matters and site-specific deal structures and terms.

A day in the life
You will represent GREF in ensuring the on time and in budget execution of Amazon construction projects, while strategically improving processes. Daily tasks may comprise of stakeholder management, coordinating with internal teams/vendors/contractors, ensuring vendors and contractors are meeting obligations, estimating, budget creation, and lease exhibit review. Utilize the Amazon information systems to record and update scheduling, budget and other key developments. You represent Amazon’s interests in weekly owner, architect, and contractor (OAC) meetings. You'll be tactical and strategic working independently, interacting with leadership to resolve issues.

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.

Senior Preconstruction Manager, AMER, GREF – Workplace Design & Construction (WD&C)