Schedule Program Manager, AWS Data Centre Planning and Delivery

Job Description

Description

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.

Our Construction Managers are on the forefront of creating and delivering the most innovative products to our customers; and are known for changing the face of cloud computing.

AWS Data Center APJC Construction Program team is seeking a highly enthusiastic, motivated, and customer facing Schedule Program Manager to innovate, develop and manage end to end schedule framework and strategies at the project and program level to provide the visibility on time and cost leading indicators. This Schedule Program Manager role requires strong infrastructure and construction knowledge and skills, communicating well to managers, peers and team members, both within their immediate department, as well as with other departments and business partners to drive effective and sustainable reporting and provide accurate analysis summary to inform the leadership on the business decisions.

As a Data Center Construction Schedule Program Manager, you will report to the APJC Construction Program Lead to support APJC Construction Managers to reduce the delivery duration and drive the efficiency. You will work alongside partner teams such as Engineering, Operations, Networking, Controls, Security, and Commissioning to build Data Centers that directly support our customers.

The Schedule Program Manager plays a key role in deploying programs, processes, governance and mechanisms that manage the project schedule consistency across the region. The Schedule Program Manager is ultimately responsible for developing and implementing scalable schedule control process and mechanism to support the Construction team. You will also assist the Data Center Construction Managers, work alongside with the schedule consultants monitoring the construction schedule to prepare project status and evaluation reports to identify the potential scheduling risk.

This position is based in Hyderabad and involves regular travel (up to 20% of the time) to other locations in the region.

Key job responsibilities

- Develop and maintain a centralised system for project scheduling, reporting and analytics to provide visibility into project performance across the region, including schedule contingency management, work breakdown structure, assumptions and critical path.
- Develop and maintain the governance framework to ensure Vendors and Construction Managers compliant to the business end to end schedule management program.
- Standardize scheduling processes, tools and templates across projects to improve efficiency, consistency, and accuracy in project scheduling and reporting.
- Provide training, guidance and support to project teams on scheduling software and processes.
- Work in collaboration with Construction Managers and contractors to drive consistency of the project scheduling approach to facility accuracy in project execution and reporting.
- Develop mechanism to ensure that appropriate planning and compatibility of scheduling techniques and systems are implemented by Contractor to meet the projects milestones.
- Review the baseline scheduling documentation and ensure accurate actual versus planned progress, and identify ambiguities, risks, and key issues.
- Coordinate with project teams to implement schedule adjustments, reallocate resourcing and streamline processes to optimise project delivery and minimise scheduling conflicts.
- Conduct regular reviews of project schedules, critical paths and dependencies to assess project risks, optimise resource allocation and mitigate schedule delays and cost overruns.
- Accumulate and analyses historical data for use in maintaining realistic future planning and forecasting, including schedules, progress reports and resource utilization and analyse key performance indicators to identify trends, variances and areas for improvement.

A day in the life

You will use data and anecdotes to tactically drive internal customers to manage project risks (time, cost, quality and safety). You will apply your knowledge and experience to identify and develop dashboard reporting to provide the visibility to peers and the leadership to drive better business outcomes. You need to have the backbone to use the data to tell the business this is what the data is telling us, and this is how it is done and develop solutions that enable our Construction Managers to enforce the effective project control with their General Contractors and vendors.

You must be an effective communicator, sending clear, concise and consistent messages verbally, in written form, and/or public speaking forums. You must have diplomacy, patience and tact to earn trust in relationships to effectively advise, instruct and challenge internal and external partner teams on strategies and processes.

About The Team

You will be integrated with a global network of Construction professionals including Construction Managers, , Project Control Managers, Program Managers, Regional Managers, and Regional Project Engineers in operational teams, as well as the Data Engineers.

Our Data Center Construction Program team owns and drives the process and dashboard reporting from constructability of design, procurement strategies, proposal development, bid analysis, award, to managing the onsite construction work.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Work/Life Balance

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Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years schedule management, project control and formulating construction program, especially for infrastructure and mission critical projects both on-site and in preconstruction environments. This includes schedule management, schedule change management, schedule contingency management, schedule risk management, forecast schedule estimates, schedule progress statuses and reporting.
- Experience in database administration (e.g. Primavera P6, Microsoft Projects) and MS Suite
- Experience developing from first principles a bottoms up schedule for large scale developments from initial concept and design development through procurement, delivery and handover.
- Experience developing scheduling standards and processes, ensuring accuracy of all cost and resource-loaded P6 or Microsoft programs, including forecast and demand analysis of resources.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor degrees in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management.
- SQL experience highly valued.
- Experience in fostering Earned Value Management approaches to measurement against plan, to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Experience in developing cashflow and coding the P6 to align with the Financial System
- Advanced knowledge and ability of developing cost and schedule control, and ability of using planning tools/systems and related tools and techniques.
- Advanced knowledge in management and development of project progress and financial reporting and Schedule change management (WBS, s-curve, look ahead plans, what-if scenarios, forecast analysis etc)

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Company - ADSIPL - Telangana

Job ID: A3089775