Construction Manager

Amazons Data Center Construction Manager (CM) delivers hyperscale data center projects from feasibility through commissioning handover owning scope schedule and budget across new builds and capital upgrades in the Greater Kanto region.
Amazon designs and procures its most advanced infrastructure in-house and builds data centers purpose-built for our own servers. As part of a dedicated self-perform construction team you will operate in a global environment with end-to-end ownership of the entire critical infrastructure chain: HV substations fiber generators switchgear UPS chillers cooling towers AHUs and servers. This end-to-end ownership demands a CM who can synthesize complex MEP systems and the control systems that integrate them hold general contractors (GCs) accountable to quality standards and compress timelines without sacrificing safety or resilience. Once construction is complete the CM transitions the facility to the commissioning team and supports integrated testing through to handover.
You will work within a high-velocity multi-disciplinary team acting as both an individual project owner and a technical authority in your discipline.

Responsibilities
Deliver:
- Own full-lifecycle project delivery
- Manage scope cost schedule and quality for concurrent new-build and capital projects
- Direct day-to-day contractor performance quality safety compliance and change management on site travel to project sites for audits constructability reviews and commissioning support as required
- Manage the RFI lifecycle and coordinate technical resolution with design engineers
- Report project metrics risks and decisions to senior leadership with clarity and precision

Optimize:
- Identify and execute cost-reduction and schedule-compression opportunities across the project portfolio
- Develop scopes of work equipment specifications RFPs and capital expenditure justifications
- Drive constructability reviews on electrical mechanical and architectural designs

Influence:
- Support and upskill on-site stakeholders and partner with procurement to expand the vendor pool
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to increase facility resiliency and operational performance
- Serve as a technical point of contact across internal teams GCs and design consultants

About the team
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- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or a related field
- 5 years of construction or project management experience
- Business-level fluency in Japanese and English including the ability to communicate technical concepts in writing and verbally with internal and external stakeholders.

- 5 years of project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure experience
- Knowledge of critical data center equipment
- Knowledge of engineering documentation electrical diagrams and standard operating procedures
- Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety BOCA NFPA NEC or OSHA
- Experience in project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure
- Experience reading and interpreting construction specifications and drawings for all domains

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