Tes Startup Project Manager

• 2+ years of program or project management experience
• Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
• Bachelor's degree

As a Project Manager, for Transportation Engineering Services (TES) Startup, you will work closely with both Middle Mile and Last Mile Amazon stakeholders to successfully deliver projects that allow Amazon to continue to honor our customer delivery promise. You will be able to immerse yourself in program and project management activities that will continuously challenge you.Key job responsibilities• Own a project from the kickoff and mobilization to deploying items for testing; coordinating execution activities through project closure.• Receive, track, and deploy the standard bill of materials required for the end user, to safely operate building spaces after the building/project launches. These items can include but are not limited to: equipment, tables, chairs, desks, 5S labeling, interior wayfinding signage, trailer truck yard safety, jam clearing equipment for material handling, racking, maintenance tools, powered industrial trucks (PIT), food and beverage vending, office cubicles and audio/visual equipment. The type and quantity of items can vary based on the design and scope of a project. • Execute with Customer Obsession to ensure a timely and to-standard project handover to Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) operational teams.• Partner directly with internal and external stakeholders to Earn Trust and facilitate planning meetings, scope efforts, set project priorities, achieve milestones and ultimately drive delivery. • Escalate safety callouts when on site. If you see something, say something.• Assess issues that may impede a successful project handover to Amazon stakeholders and escalate through leadership, proposing actionable resolutions.• Coordinate and control Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) for a turn-key solution, ensuring highest levels of Associate readiness.• Coordinate with external project managers to support execution in the field, monitoring project activities regardless of ownership.• Deliver on a budget for operational improvements to finishes, furnishings and equipment, employing frugality throughout.***Travel up to 80% domestically although travel intensity can be variable and consist of up to three weeks in a row, including weekends.A day in the lifeEach day you represent TES (Transportation Engineering Services) in managing projects that vary in complexity, time and budget. You own projects from kick-off to close-out while also supporting program level initiatives to better the organization. You are expected to work at pace with high levels of ambiguity and with oversight from a regional program manager, whilst demonstrating ownership throughout the project life cycle. You lead by influencing stakeholders through a project cadence of business meetings, site visits and technical discussions. You are expected to physically be on site to meet project goals and roll up your sleeves with a Bias for Action to get things done and support project execution. Your scope is dependent on upstream partners such as construction engineering and design teams. You execute your scope in a construction environment. Daily tasks include coordination with vendors and contractors, removing barriers to local and high-level milestones, working across teams, communicating through leadership project status and risk, using internal and external software and driving results. You are expected to lead by example when on site, communicating across stakeholders.About the teamAt Amazon, we are all Owners. You will be a part of a high functioning team that is interconnected and supportive of each other to help Deliver Results for multiple, complex and high capital projects simultaneously. We own the execution of our scope from mobilization to final hand-off to our customers. We are an execution function within TES that directly supports the Amazon Sort Center network. We are a diverse, inclusive, high performing, problem-solve oriented, creative team of project and process improvement managers. We strive to keep an open mind, a sense of humor and a drive for ambition to deploy innovative and sustainable facilities to launch on Day One.