Grid Delivery Manager Emea, Infrastructure Energy

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Construction or related field
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent
- 5+ years’ experience delivering HV / MV grid interconnection projects, substations and overhead lines / cables, involving working with Electricity Utilities.
- Demonstrated understanding of HV / MV electrical safety standards & protocols.
- Possesses strong organizational, communication and team building skills.
- Ability to self-start and self-motivate in a dynamic environment.
- Working proficiency in Spanish and English languages, both written and spoken

The AWS Infrastructure Energy Team (IET) team is looking for a Grid Delivery Manager to own the delivery of the electrical connections (HV/MV substations, overhead lines and underground cables) from the electricity grid to AWS Data Centres. If you like to leverage your technical understanding of large-scale HV/ MV grid infrastructure projects from design through energisation phase, we’d like to meet you. Your work will help drive the grid infrastructure delivery program, standardize processes, develop tools for delivery executions, support financial budgeting and act as the point of contact between AWS and electricity utilities.
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) 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.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for coordinating timelines and activity sequencing with construction, real estate, design & engineering, procurement and planning teams across the full lifecycle of delivering power connections to our DCs, including electrical design; materials procurement; securing infrastructure permits, wayleaves & easements; and infrastructure construction, commissioning and testing.
You will lead the engagement with electricity utilities on the delivery of their associated grid works, the securing of electricity grid outages, utility commissioning, the energisation process and the transfer of assets to utility ownership.
You will provide regular reporting on project status, risks, issues, budgetary spend etc. at senior management, director and VP level
You will standardize processes and develop tools to support successful grid infrastructure delivery executions
You will support financial budgeting
About the team
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Infrastructure Energy team is currently a team of 14, with members of the team currently based in Dublin (Ireland), London (England), Madrid (Spain), Dubai (UAE) and Frankfurt (Germany). The team is responsible for originating, contracting and delivering reliable power connections to our DCs across EMEA. The work of the team is divided across a team of Energy Project Managers (EPMs) and Grid Delivery Managers (GDMs), supported by business/grid analysts. The EPMs prospect for, originate and secure the power needed for AWS’s fleet of data centres while the GDMs lead the delivery of large-scale HV & MV infrastructure connections to our data centres. Finding reliable, scalable, sustainable power is one of the big challenges facing AWS today and into the future. The Infrastructure Energy team is key to meeting this challenge and enabling scalable future growth to support the expansion of AWS Cloud and our customers to innovate faster.
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