Senior Preconstruction Manager, AMER, GREF – Workplace Design & Construction (WD&C)

Amazon is hiring a Senior Preconstruction Manager, AMER, GREF – Workplace Design & Construction (WD&C) in Arlington, United States. It pays $90k-$158k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Manage scoping, design, and preconstruction activities for Amazon corporate office tenant improvements and renovations.

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The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team provides real estate transaction expertise, business partnering, space & occupancy planning, workplace design and construction, capital investment program management and facility maintenance and operations for Amazon’s corporate office portfolio across multiple countries. We partner with suppliers to ensure quality, innovation, and operational excellence with Amazon’s business and utilize customer driven feedback to continuously improve and exceed employee expectations.

GREF’s Workplace Design and Construction team is looking for a Preconstruction Manager for tenant improvements and renovations. This individual is responsible for scoping, design, and preconstruction activities. This individual will collaborate with internal GREF stakeholders and customers through the project planning and initiation phases to align on scope, budget, and schedule. This individual must be comfortable operating on both strategic and tactical levels, acting as an internal ambassador, educator, analyst, and implementer from a design and construction perspective. The role involves procuring and managing vendor/contractor performance to ensure timely completion, compliance with cost requirements, organizational standards, and other requirements and regulations.

This position requires travel up to 40% within assigned regions.

Key job responsibilities
- Work closely with GREF stakeholders, including portfolio managers, portfolio strategy, occupancy planning, design/sustainability/engineer managers, transaction managers, and finance
- Focus on due diligence, scope creation, draft project charters for renovations and new build design direction
- Prepare budgets for forecast and approval, estimate schedules for renovations and new build construction, and prepare the project to hand off to the design and construction execution teams
- Procure and manage external architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, and/or subcontractors
- Ensure decisions are made at the appropriate level and Amazon's priorities remain the driving factor. Lead constructive dialogue to resolve and prevent project issues
- Identify and mitigate risk, keep the scope under control, accelerate progress with timely decisions, identify and clear blockers, escalate appropriately, and ensure compliance with contracts and regulations
- Understand design and construction contracts, exhibits, and provide detailed analysis and approvals of technical matters
- Review and advise on landlord delivery conditions in LOI and lease documents, including premises delivery timing and condition

A day in the life
Each day you will represent GREF providing input for the on time and in budget execution of Amazon construction projects, while improving processes. Daily tasks may comprise of long-range strategy discussions, early scope and budget creation, project team procurement, supporting LOI and lease language negotiations, and utilizing the Amazon information systems to record and update key project developments. Each day you will be navigating through uncertainty, proactively unblocking project barriers and influencing the best project decisions. You will be negotiating terms of contracts with designers, contractors, and consultants all the while driving to meet or exceed schedules of the approved scope. Daily tasks may be comprised of stakeholder management, coordinating with internal teams/vendors/contractors on projected changes and status, providing input to for strategy and lease docs, ensuring vendors and contractors are meeting their obligations, seeking sustainable environmentally friendly solutions throughout the design and construction process. You will participate in weekly meetings providing input on root causes and corrective action as may be required. You will be tactical and strategic working independently, interacting with leadership to resolve issues. You will provide estimating support, interpret drawings, create budgets, and review/approve lease exhibits. Preconstruction management includes site validation due diligence, scope development, validation of checklists, and construction documentation of existing conditions. You will understand zoning/planning, life safety/fire, and building code. You act as the primary escalation point for project team members and customers; owning and tracking issues to ensure that they are addressed, documented, and resolved using influence to manage team members.

About the team
At Amazon, we are all owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the design review, permitting, to construction bidding and consultant during construction execution prior to final hand-off to our internal stakeholder. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team of designers, engineers and managers working daily to develop innovative sustainable facilities and efficient innovative buildings for our customers. We focus on Delivering Results, our speed for Bias for Action and Insisting on the Highest Standards for our customers.

Basic qualifications

- 7+ years of project management, real estate development, architecture/design experience
- Bachelor's degree

Preferred qualifications

- Experience as an Architect, Engineer, Construction Manager, Development Manager, Owner's project management representative or in other Commercial Development and Construction related disciplines

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Arlington - 90,300.00 - 158,000.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Senior Preconstruction Manager, AMER, GREF – Workplace Design & Construction (WD&C) at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Key facts

Senior Preconstruction Manager, AMER, GREF – Workplace Design & Construction (WD&C) is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $90k-$158k a year.
The role is based in US, VA, Arlington.
The job was posted on September 9, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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