Engineering Design Manager - Structural, Central Building Engineering

Description

Amazon is seeking Structural Engineers to join the founding team of the central building engineering function (Building Technical Services) within Global Engineering, Materials, and Sustainability (GEMS). In this role, you will perform the hands-on technical work that keeps Amazon’s buildings safe, compliant, and resilient. You develop, maintain and apply Amazon’s structural standards across Amazon’s building and construction portfolio. You provide subject matter expertise to the internal design, execution, and operations teams.

You will work within a team managing third-party structural peer reviews during construction projects, monitor and assess internal design and standards changes, and work with design and innovation teams to develop the structural design basis for Amazon's network of buildings. You will help drive the shift to an integrated, trusted technical function ensuring building structural integrity at scale, balancing speed and safety by providing technical clarification that unblocks execution teams on proven design standards.

Key job responsibilities
Peer Review Quality:
- Monitor and maintain a record of peer review logs, technically arbitrate peer review disputes, differences in methodology, etc., and confirm peer review closeout meets Amazon’s standards and technical quality bar.
Standards:
- Develop, maintain and apply Amazon’s structural standards and template designs that are used as the design basis for site specific adaptation.

Change Management:
- Internally monitor, review and uphold Amazon’s structural standards for internal change requests; follow a defined framework to decide when a change request needs further review for impacts to the base building structural system.

Vendor Quality & Third-Party Oversight:
- Reviews qualifications for third-party EORs and peer review consultants; manage third-party technical relationships and act as external liaison to third-party peer reviewers, EORs and AORs for technical arbitration.

Cross-Org Influence:
- Partner across Construction, Real Estate, Maintenance, Operations, Safety, and Legal groups to align complementary efforts and avoid duplicated or shadow capabilities.

A day in the life
You review third-party peer review logs to understand the health of a project and understand if there are positive or negative trends. You regularly interact with third-party peer reviewers to determine when/if technical arbitration may be necessary. You partner with internal teams to manage the affects of the peer reviews on the construction schedule and project cost, mitigating when able. In the long term, you build tools with tech teams to improve peer review efficiency and allow the program to scale beyond manual efforts.

About the team
The Central Engineering - Building Structural Integrity pillar is a new team, established under Global Engineering, Materials and Sustainability. The team has existing scope developing the structural templates and standards that are the basis of construction projects. In addition, there is new scope that will be developed with your help to manage structural design, innovation, defects, remediations, and change management through the lifecycle of a building.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of technical infrastructure management experience
- Experience with varying scenarios of infrastructure builds
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Structural Engineering
- Engineer-in-Training (EIT) / Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) certification, with progress toward a Professional Engineer (PE) license; PE preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in Structural Engineering
- PE (Professional Engineer) or SE (Structural Engineer) Engineering license
- Prior experience in Structural forensic analysis and engineering.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.