Constructability Principal, DC Design Engineering

Description:

Our Design Team is on the forefront of creating and delivering the most innovative products; and are known for being a diverse and upbeat team that is changing the face of Cloud Computing. We continue to grow and are looking for team members that can support our speed to market, raise the bar, and have a desire for professional growth and continuous learning. Amazon’s work environment is unique in every aspect and offers an exceptional opportunity for the right candidate. At Amazon we highly support continued learning opportunities and focus on continued employee development.
As a Data Center Design Principal, you will be part of an engineering leadership team in APJC, comprised of highly effective Architects, Structural, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Control Engineers. This unique vantage point allows to maintain a close connection with project details and drive project outcomes. You will have impact on the design and construction direction and ability to improve delivery for all APJC projects, while establishing procedures and protocols for the development of future systems. This role is an opportunity to collaborate with many facets of the AWS organization, external engineering resources and regulatory agencies, including procurement, construction and real estate, field engineering and operations. As the Design Principal, your regional team will be comprised of highly effective Engineers across multiple disciplines. AWS drives the engineering on our capacity delivery projects. You will have a close collaborative relationship with the design team and the construction team in order to craft new scalable delivery strategies, update existing delivery strategies and to unblock design related construction issues and avoid their repetition on similar builds. A key part of the role will be to impact the design and construction of our facilities to scale learnings and lessons learned to improve design delivery for APJC and Global projects, while establishing innovative procedures and protocols for the development of future systems.

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
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.


Key job responsibilities
• Engaging with internal engineer resources, internal customers, external consultants and construction teams to build trusted relationships to address design issues and construction issues and drive continuous improvement to prevent repetition of issues.
• Driving process improvements to positively impact design related issues and quality outcomes.
• Creating and tracking metrics related to Design Quality, Construction Quality and the incurred costs of Change Orders in construction.
• Working in partnership with AWS Engineering leads to manage engineering resources and influence design changes based on internal customer needs.
• Drive best practices on the team, deal with ambiguity and competing objectives, and proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks;
• Use creativity, good judgment and significant innovation in evaluating, simplify and developing project procedures including document control, tracking of quality trends and design related issues ;
• Identify continuous improvement strategies focused on design and construction;
• Engage with an experienced engineering discipline leads, influencing roadmaps, priorities and process working across multiple teams including design, construction and commissioning.;
• Write effective narratives and present them concisely and effectively to Directors and VPs;
• Facilitating weekly meetings with internal engineer resources, internal customers and external consultants to address design issues, meet design milestones and escalate as needed.
• Establishing capital project design budgets and contributing to complex business cases for existing region and new region deployment.



About the team
ABOUT AWS:

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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Sydney, NSW, AUS

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management, Engineering, Architecture or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 15+ years professional experience in mission critical facility design/delivery
• Minimum of five (5) years of Project Management or Project Lead experience including RFQ/RFP process, selecting engineering teams, developing budgets, coordinating multiple consultant teams and facilitating meetings.
• Ability to travel within the Asia Pacific/Japan/China region for approximately 30% of full-time hours and internationally for approximately 10%
• 5 years of experience directly related to data center design, construction, operations, and/or facility maintenance.
• Direct experience with delivering data center projects utilizing modular construction techniques, including procurement and commissioning of facilities.
• Functional knowledge of industry standards, environmental codes, building codes and safety standards including International Building Code.
• Ability to communicate complex technical issues to senior leadership or non-engineers, develop basic business case financial projections and create performance metrics.
• Direct experience in negotiating with regulatory agencies regarding departures from building code and construction change orders.
• Working Knowledge of Sharepoint, BIM/Revit, Salesforce and Procore software


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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.