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Civil Engineer, DC Design Engineering

Amazon 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Full-time

The Civil Engineer will serve as a client-side technical lead, driving design and construction for enterprise data center campus projects by working directly with Real Estate, Design, and Construction teams. Key duties include collaborating on conceptual designs, developing design standards, managing external consultants, and ensuring projects meet strict quality and performance levels.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate on conceptual designs and maintain project documentation across the full project lifecycle
  • Shape the future of campus designs by developing and upholding design standards, create design prototypes, and specifications
  • Work closely with internal partner teams to refine site selection criteria and evaluate investigation reports
  • Lead the charge in managing external design consultants, guiding them through design and construction phases
  • Engage with multi-disciplinary Architecture, Structure, and MEP design teams both internally and externally
  • Articulate design direction and requirements clearly to project partners
  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment by managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Employ creative thinking to discover innovative solutions that optimize costs without compromising quality or reliability throughout the construction process

Requirements

  • 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience
  • 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
  • Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment

Key Skills

Civil engineering Data center design Construction Operations Facility maintenance Industrial engineering Commercial engineering Mission critical facilities Leadership Communication Collaboration Project management Design standards Prototyping Specifications Site selection Investigation reports Design direction Creative thinking

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1."​ What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fa

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