Controls Manager, DCCD Amer Controls

At Amazon, we"re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and 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.

The Data Center Capacity Delivery team is looking for exceptional individuals to join our organization as a Controls Manager, responsible for the building management systems and electrical power monitoring system (BMS/EPMS) deployment and service within Amazon data centers. If you are passionate about the Customer Experience, think and act globally and have the ability to contribute to major new innovations in the area of building controls and automation this is the challenge you are looking for!

The ideal candidate will have experience managing a team of highly technically skilled individuals. The candidate will possess industrial Controls System experience, project management, mechanical, electrical or technology background that enables him/her to undertake the challenges of sophisticated controls platforms and a demonstrated ability to think broadly and strategically in aligning building controls and automation with the larger objectives of the business.

Key job responsibilities

Able to implement and track team goals, report the status of ongoing projects upwards.

Experienced interviewer, able to develop launch plans for new hires, and identify team needs.

Experienced in installation, programming, and troubleshooting of BMS/EPMS systems and/or industrial controls systems.

Strong writing skills, able to articulate thoughts clearly and concisely.

Understanding of: electrical diagrams, control diagrams, building operations, control circuits, industrial HVAC.

Ability to ascertain customer needs to help develop project scope and specifications.

Ability to manage project engineering to determine the scope of work relative to the design intent of the customer needs.

Ability to read and interpret specifications and implementing those specifications as they apply the work environment.

Experience in development of drawings for control panels, power distribution, junction boxes. Included in the drawings are the general arrangement, internal layout, schematics and interconnection and wire diagrams.

Experience developing logic diagrams in the International Automation format for complex logic devices such as Programmable Logical Controller and Distributed Control System.

Experience performing inspects, testing, and commission of the facility systems.

Provide technical assistance as needed to internal customers.

Coordinate project work internally within the department and externally with other departments to ensure on-time completion of projects within budget.

A day in the life

As a Controls Manager, your primary customers are Data Center Engineering Operations (DCEO), whose operational performance depends on the quality and reliability of the Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS) your team delivers and maintains. The problems you solve are organizational: ensuring your region has the right people, processes, and priorities to keep controls systems performing at scale. On a given day you might present operational metrics to senior leadership, coach a builder on their development plan, escalate a vendor performance issue, or approve a capital project proposal. Your internal stakeholders include your senior manager, your direct reports (Engineers and Technicians), and partner teams (Construction, Commissioning, DCEO, Field Engineering).

About the team

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.

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