Description

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.

The Data Center Construction Director is responsible for managing some of the most technical, cost efficient, and fast paced construction project schedules achievable. We are constantly challenged to continuously improve processes and drive technical efficiencies in data centers and scale outcomes to other projects around the world. We are customer focused problem solvers and managers of diverse stakeholders. We are typically project based, where the work happens, but have regular interface with leadership, partner teams and a wide variety of internal and collaborators.

As part of the Construction Management team you will be a part of a highly creative, efficient team tasked with tackling a variety of challenges. Our focus is on time, and timely communication. The AWS Construction Management team is always at the forefront of the construction industry in terms of innovation, and maintain a focus to deliver the most innovative products to our customers.

The Construction Director is the leader for the construction and deployment of large-scale AWS campus style data centers. Their scope spans the full project lifecycle, from Project Initiation and through Project Final Handover. Beyond project delivery, the Construction Director influences future AWS data center designs, incorporates operational customer feedback into product improvements, and provides technical leadership during critical operational events and emergency situations.

The Construction Director operates in environments where the problem, opportunity, or strategy may not yet be defined. As a subject matter expert in major project delivery and data center construction and deployment, they apply deep technical expertise across Civil, Structural, Architectural (CSA), and Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) disciplines to distill diverse inputs from customers, stakeholders, and market signals into long-term technical strategies as well as Project Execution Plans.

The Construction Director reports directly into the Sub-Regional Head of Construction and works closely with Senior Construction Managers (SCMs), Construction Managers (CMs), and Project Coordinators. They work with Construction Programs teams, Controls Managers, Technical Infrastructure Program Managers (TIPMs), Amazon Commissioning (ACx), Critical Projects Implementation (CPI), and Design Engineering (DE). They influence senior leaders across the organization, presenting technical strategies, trade-off analyses, and investment recommendations directly to Directors and Vice Presidents.

The Construction Director owns the project level construction standards and innovation roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that directly support project and organizational capacity delivery, cost-per-megawatt objectives, and sustainability commitments. They provide technical leadership across the large project by defining strategic objectives, establishing technical direction, and delivering outcomes with a high degree of autonomy, judgment, and organizational influence

At Amazon we leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the substation, to the server, and back to the cooling towers. We are diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented construction professionals working on a daily basis to develop data centers that are changing the face of data facilities.

We are owners of the asset, the process, the product, the service and a part of our business.

Key job responsibilities
Deliver high quality, on time Data Centers for our customers. Our Construction Management team are a group of highly skilled professionals with a focus on problem solving and a sense of ownership.

The Construction Director will be responsible for:
• Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.
• Mentor team members and build high performing support culture
• Project management and oversight of construction related activities campus builds. This will include the ownership of the project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Driving costs down and schedules shorter while maintaining quality.
• Provide Construction Management for specific initiatives aimed at increasing the resiliency of our data centers.
• Review of constructability of electrical and mechanical system and building designs associated with the construction of new data centers or the optimization of existing data centers.
• Creation of project scope and equipment requirements, assist with request for proposals, and capital requests.
• Total project quality including the assisting with commissioning and integrated system testing and oversight of the execution of the project.
• Issue/Manage the Request for Information process during construction and coordinate construction administration with engineers
• Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and management.

A day in the life
AWS Construction Managers lead the delivery of our Data Center projects. They work closely with Internal Stakeholders and Contractors, resolving project issues, managing RFIs, Change Orders and other key delivery functions. Our CMs spend the majority of the week on site working closely with our vendors to drive project outcomes.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience in construction of data center delivery (design, commissioning and construction), mission critical facilities, or equivalent industrial/manufacturing facility builds
- 10+ years of construction or project management experience

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in project management, or experience working in a data center or mission critical facility (example: hospital, military facility, public safety facility, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Structural, Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Knowledge of Australian building codes and regulations including Fire Codes, Building Codes, Energy Efficiency Codes, Sanitary Codes and Safety Codes

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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