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, security and quality 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
The responsibilities of the Commissioning Area Manager include owning the challenges in ensuring the quality and reliability of electrical and mechanical systems for our customers. You will think broadly and strategically in setting visions and prioritizing the commissioning program aligned with goals of the larger organization. You lead a team of commissioning engineers, with broad responsibilities to hire, build a high-performing team and lead the safety culture by example. Utilizing industrial standards and company goals, you develop and manage quality-focused initiatives, manage and analyse metrics to drive innovation and continuous improvements. You communicate and provide guidance to Finance during capital budgeting, making data-driven decisions to deliver predictable cost estimations. You create standards and build consensus with a broad spectrum of stakeholders on cross-functional teams that will operate to deliver on the quality policy.
In this role, you will have an EMEA and global presence, which will include 20% traveling to sites located in-country, across EMEA and globally. As a leader, you provide clear communication and vision for the business. You own a systemized commissioning approach and are accountable for your team's compliance with commissioning procedures, quality, environmental, safety practices, policies, and procedures. You will also participate in all projects and company safety programs. You report to the Regional Commissioning Manager, and you develop metrics to ensure compliance with business requirements and safety. You are accountable for weekly reporting of commissioning progress and metrics for your team's projects. You communicate clearly both verbally and written, leveraging interpersonal skills to effectively coordinate with stakeholders, using data to justify conclusions when dealing with ambiguity. You dig deep to develop creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs and duration with no impact to quality and reliability. You will work in a high-velocity environment, on multiple strategic initiatives, and maintain a high-performing team simultaneously under tight deadlines and according to prescribed metrics.
Systemize Execution
Identify key value drivers that contribute to commissioning successes and determine their effectiveness through the development of metrics.
Define the organizational structure to meet short-term and long-range business requirements.
Develop an inspection and reporting structure to audit and maintain commissioning programs and business requirements.
Conduct in-depth data analysis to develop cross-functional mechanisms to improve overall organizational metrics using knowledge, experience, and innovation.
Lead the development of process improvement strategies aligned with organizational goals.
Systemize Optimization
Identify improvement opportunities, fix broken processes, convert proven concepts into mechanisms, and iterate existing mechanisms to improve metrics.
Develop metrics that measure the performance of commissioning key value drivers and stress-test the effectiveness of existing mechanisms.
Establish a cadence to inspect performances, ensure compliance, provide insights to improve metrics, and track them to success.
Communicate clearly the areas of improvement and reinforcement to develop an improvement and scaling plan.
Project and Business Management
Leads the team with creativity to overcome obstacles and drives further escalation to overcome obstacles when stuck.
Leads performance management of the team and vendors.
Leads capital budget and organizational planning.
Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or an equivalent engineering science
Experience in industrial or commercial engineering or project management in Mission Critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation, or oil/gas facilities
Experience directly related to the design or construction of data centers or critical infrastructure or large-scale mechanical and electrical plants
3+ years' experience in people management: hiring; organizational planning; building a team; performance management; mentoring; coaching.
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