Manager, Construction Management, Industrial Growth And Development

WWGRD Construction Manager

Do you want to be part of an organization that is on the leading edge for operations, supply chain, and fulfillment design? The Worldwide Retail Growth and Development (WWGRD) team is looking for a proven technical leader with extensive experience planning and managing the execution of large scale construction programs. As the WWGRD Construction Manager, you will work with a broad set of stakeholders including Real Estate, Operations, Design, Launch, Startup, Delivery Experience, Legal and Retail to take the industrial facility design from concept through the hand off to Operations. This position requires a firm understanding of engineering, planning, program management, contract administration and operations.

Key job responsibilities:

• Manage 6-8 Construction Managers.
• Coordinate with designers, building teams, and cost estimators to establish proper project budget, scope and schedule.
• Assist in obtaining the information and decisions needed from Amazon which are required to complete the construction drawings.
• Act as a facilitator of information required for by internal Amazon functional teams (IT, Safety, LP, Food Safety, Operations).
• Perform duties as the primary Amazon representative on permitting required with authorities having jurisdiction.
• Act as principle schedule auditor on behalf of Amazon, monitor site production, determine target milestones, track and communicate progress.
• Develop capital appropriation requests and manage fiduciary responsibility for approved budgets.
• Perform site visits on a periodic basis to confirm schedule progress, attend contractor meetings and act as the single point of contact for Amazon for the general contractor partners.
• Review the contractor's buyout, subcontracting, material purchase schedule and long lead orders.
• Coordinate with the Amazon launch/startup teams regarding schedule and phased area turnover to insure coordination with all stakeholder functions.
• Audit contractors punch list completion progress and manage on behalf of Amazon.
• Direct the contractor through the document turnover and close out process.
• Coordinate with Amazon property management to transition the building facilities to their care.
• Lead continuous improvement and lessons learned efforts to improve standards, reduce costs and expedite timelines for construction programs.
• Role includes travel throughout North America up to 40% of the time.