The Global Central Reliability Maintenance Engineering team is seeking for a Sr. ELM Project Manager for Base Building!

Amazon’s mission is to be the earth’s most customer-centric company with a unique culture built on pioneering into unknown and new frontiers.

The Base Building Sr. ELM Project Manager supports the construction phases, building equipment installation, working with data to find root causes and generate improvements on further launches and retrofits across North America. Join us to provide customers with an incredible package delivery experience by working in reliable and maintainable facilities.


Key job responsibilities
• Travel up to 40% of the time
• Manage projects and initiatives, provide progress reports and KPIs for significant milestones and mitigate conditions affecting project cost or schedule
• Lead installation and operation quality inspections and equipment commissioning for base building equipment drive continuous improvement.
• Lead RME input for development of Building templates specification and site specific composites
• Lead continuous improvement for all new buildings including cross functional collaboration with design and construction, change management and procurement.
• Support construction and launch execution teams leveraging discussions with vendors and other departments representatives.
• Integrate RME policies and deliverables into the launch plans and provide guidance and direction to other departments to cascade this into the designs, contract and commissioning phases.
• Capture lessons-learned and develop/execute action plans to improve quality or efficiency of new facility launches
• Specify and coordinate standards and deliverables for new equipment being turned over to RME.
• Understand the anticipated life cycle cost based on initial design and planned design improvements



A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!


- 5+ years of directly managing and responsible for multiple large projects experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in the distribution or manufacturing field with equivalent experience in the mechanical or electrical field.
- Demonstrable experience of project management and implementation with a proven ability to design workable solutions and drive successful projects results.
- Experience within the areas of Greenfield infrastructure building and construction

- Master's degree in engineering, mechanical, operations, supply chain, business administration, or equivalent STEM field
- Experience in Lean Management, Six Sigma and other operations engineer tools
- Proven communication skills, including the proven ability to effectively manage, influence, negotiate, and communicate with external business partners and internal teams to meet organizational capacity needs
- Ability to adapt well to fast-paced environments with changing circumstances, direction, and strategy
- Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases
- High attention-to-detail including proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

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