At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and self-driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team of engineers and managers working on a daily basis to develop & innovate for our customers. Amazon Projects team needs to have in-depth understanding of Project life cycle including span allocation for all the four pillars (assessment, design, detailing, Execution and Performance qualification) of any project. Some of the key aspects of the role are Site Selection along with the RE team, Project statutory and Legal compliances adherence, Project Safety both in terms of design and execution, value management for large and medium scale projects, executing various formats of technical projects-green field, brown field and Improvement projects.
Key job responsibilities
The candidate is required to lead the planning and execution of FCs, SCs & RCs and will be based out of East India (Kolkata). The Project Manager role will be responsible for setting up new centers across different business formats, capacity expansion of existing facilities as well as relocation of facilities as per business requirements. Additionally, the Project Manager will also drive 1 or 2 project management initiatives viz. Standardization, Energy Conservation programs, Productivity Improvement measures and Project Financial processes.
The role will be based in NCR with 50% of time traveling to other locations of the region for project execution.
A day in the life
Project Manager will be responsible for the on time and safe delivery and hand over of facilities across business formats as listed above, ensuring that the project is executed with highest standards and good engineering practices. Other roles and responsibilities of the Project Manager will include:
• Support to RE(real estate) team in site visits and due diligence through site inspections for a feasibility assessment of setting up a facility for the given business format.
• Working to finalize the conceptual layouts and to assess the layout parameters from an operations perspective.
• Preparing Developer’s Scope of Work for the site as per standards and specification
• Preparing Amazon scope of work and the cost estimate and preparation & submission of Build out Capex request for approval.
• Finalization of Project Management & Design Consultants.
• Project resource planning and management through the appointed PMC or hired resources.
• Coordination with Procurement team to evaluate and finalize vendors for the projects.
• Reviewing the material requirement with all stakeholders for setting up and Launching the facility and tracking till receipt and implementation.
• Progress monitoring and Execution management of onsite activities of Amazon & Developer scope of work.
• Tracking and ensuring quality of work by the Developer.
• Ensure a snag-free handover to RME Team.
• Work with Launch team in preparation of the Launch of a site closer to completion.
• Ensure budget adherence and safe execution at site - with no budget overruns and with a targeted Zero LTI (Loss time incident).
• Preparation of weekly progress reviews and reports with status updates.
• Ensure timely project closure including the commercials.
• Willing to learn Amazon internal operational processes and packages (MHE, Storage, IT and SLP)
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in engineering including a supervisory role managing people
- Experience in a fast-paced, automated, industrial, logistics, production or manufacturing environment- Experience of automated equipment including packaging machinery, sortation and conveyor systems
- Experience in preventative maintenance systems
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