Sr Mgr, Disaster Recovery

Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience in managing physical repairs or remediation for fires, floods, hurricanes, or other disasters impacting commercial/industrial buildings, assets, and/or key infrastructure
- Experience as a Project Manager, Construction Manager, Project Engineer/Architect or similar in commercial construction experience
- People Management experience, with a record of proven leadership.

Key job responsibilities
- Manage and deploy your team through rotational assignments, providing field-based leadership of damage assessments, repair plans and recovery timeline for damaged buildings, equipment, and inventory
- Develop and execute a recovery plan for damaged assets with target recovery timelines that follow the critical path. Hold your team accountable for developing and executing the recovery plan, including identification of upstream/downstream interdependencies.
- Lead your team through the collection and reporting of key metrics throughout each recovery, including drafting or editing daily flash updates and closing reports produced by the team.
- Identify and coordinate disaster recovery vendors, including structural engineers, general contractors, and qualified professionals who can assess the structure, utilities, equipment, health and environmental impacts, to develop creative and safe solutions for optimal recovery.
- Lead or participate in after-action reviews, drawings insights from key learnings and metrics to improve response efforts.
- Develop and improve safety and process initiatives to meet key recovery metrics focused on time, cost, safety and quality
- Implement operational safety standards ensuring effective partnership with local and regional Workplace Health and Safety (WHS).
- Oversee the use of safety standards, roles and responsibilities, DRI tools, auditing, baseline metrics for KPIs of disaster recovery.
- Coordinate personal protective equipment (PPE) training and resources for DRI members. Work closely with Operations, Loss Prevention, Risk Management, and WHS on recoveries
- Responsible for ensuring that DRI programs and processes are compliant and meet industry best practices throughout Europe

About the team
The mission of DRI is to support Operations with reestablishing normal business functions as quickly and safely as possible during and following a disaster, while mitigating impact and disruption to our people, customers, and the community. We are the bridge between strategic plans and tactical execution. We are master problem-solvers, striking the right balance of time, cost, and quality in guiding recovery decisions, and diving deep when needed to drive key learnings back to the business for closed-loop learning and continuous improvement.

Madrid, ESP | Madrid, M, ESP
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate quickly, clearly, and effectively.
- Availability for on-call rotations after hours and weekends for emergency response support in North America.
- Ability to travel up to 40% domestically to support recovery efforts for complex events with higher hazards.
- Experience interfacing with and influencing site leaders and senior business leaders.
- Ability to identify, develop and implement department goals and strategies.
- Advanced knowledge of design and repair practices of commercial buildings, critical building systems, and real estate infrastructure.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, root-cause analysis investigation experience, ability to innovate, and attention to detail.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar with ability to set timelines, milestones, and track toward completion within a high-stress, fast paced environment.
- Amazon operations experience in leadership position with familiarity with inventory disposition.