AV Project Manager Residential Projects
- Do you love solving problems and meeting challenges with creative solutions?
- Do you have a passion for technology?
- Organization, Cleanliness, Troubleshooting, Communication, and attention to detail are all areas of the job you excel at.
- Your communication skills, planning and leadership skills shine through.
- Creativity, Efficiency, and Timeliness skills are a must.
We are a growing & thriving, well-established design and build technology company with 30 employees serving the luxury residential construction market in the greater San Diego area.
We provide state of the-art solutions from smart electrical, lighting design, mechanized shades, and audio/video solutions.
- You believe that getting it right the first time is the only way. You have worked in small to medium size business and know that being flexible is a normal necessity and so your approach reflects this.
- You can demonstrate your communication skills, and developing talent and efficiency is a priority. You get a sense of pride when can solve a challenging problem and know how to zig and zag.
- You are a self-starter and self-motivator. You are engaged and excited when challenges are presented to you.
We are growing our business and need a well organized project manager with the skills to represent our company and deliver our projects with the attention to detail and pride.
Your primary accountabilities are:
Job Summary:
Work closely with the Sales Team and System Designers to achieve seamless integration and handoff of the project, and establish project objectives and realizations. Keep sales people apprised of the project activities/changes as necessary. Responsible for timely completion of daily procedures and paperwork as assigned.
- Requires excellent communication skills
- Self-motivated, task-driven
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Good client management and goodwill-building ability.
- Capacity to motivate, lead and boost the morale of the teams.
- Effective time management and logical decision-making ability.
- Capacity to handle pressure.
- Willingness to travel
- Strong focus on quality.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Perform a key role in project planning, budgeting, and identification of resources needed.
- Charting out the project objectives and plans, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants.
- Bringing about optimum utilization of resources- labor, materials, and equipment, and ensuring their procurement at the most cost-effective terms.
- Development of effective communications and mechanisms for resolving conflict.
- Oversee projects from start to finish. Conducting inspections at critical phases of projects
- Project accounting functions include managing the budget, tracking team expenses, and minimizing exposure and risk in the project
- Devise the project work plans and make revisions as and when the need arises.
- Communicate effectively with the people responsible for completing various phases of the project.
- Coordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the project, which includes architects, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, and laborers.
- Monitor the progress of the project activities on a regular basis and hold regular status meetings with all parties.
- Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, and quality and safety standards.
- Ensure project documents are complete.
- Identify the elements of project design
- Serve as a key link with the clients and liaison with sales people and review the deliverable prepared by the team before passing on to the client.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Job Requirements:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Highly detailed, organized, and multitask driven
- Proficient in all Senior level qualifications
- Excellent skills with desktop and mobile computing
- Clean driving record and background check (required for DCJS certification)
- Minimum of 3 years of field experience
- Ability to plan and organize a team effort.
Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. They are not to be constructed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
We’re proud of the professional, fun and exciting working atmosphere we’ve created at Lightworks and we believe it’s one of the best places to work in the residential electrical and technology industries.
Regardless of the role, everyone who works at Lightworks shares the following values:
1: Sweep the floors - Never be too big to do the small things that make a difference. Stay Grounded, Clean the job site after every visit. Everyone needs to contribute. Including the programmer.
2: If you stand still everyone will pass you buy - Look for ways to constantly improve. Test yourself, This is an ever-changing business. Strive to learn and master the next level.
3: Participate with purpose – Mastering your current role is just part of the equation for success. You can still be ineffective if you don’t know what you are trying to achieve as a team. It’s clear that winning teams are all on the same page and this helps form a team from a group of individuals. Understand the shared goals. Don’t be scared to ask.
4: Pass the Ball – Leaders create Leaders, Work on creating leaders throughout the ranks. Take responsibility. Who can you develop?
5: Create a Learning Environment – Leaders are Teachers. Lightworks wants hungry to learn team members who want to learn and develop their skills. However, it’s not your bosses sole responsibility to teach you. Lightworks actively encourages team members to share and mentor each other. Help others improve.
6: No Jerks – Lightworks wants to enhance the team but that doesn’t mean anyone will do. Lightworks is about team first and we look to find individuals who have the right character. You can develop talent; you cannot change character. No jerks ever.
7: Embrace Expectations – Setting personal goals and team targets is part of what drives improvement. Dream Big.
8: Preform Under Pressure – Success happens when preparation meets opportunity. Practice under pressure, know your stuff. Learning and doing lay the foundations for success. Do the work on and off the clock to make the difference.
9: Learn How to Make Decisions under Pressure - Decision making is a tough skill to learn and only develops over time but staying calm when the heat is on is a big step in the right direction. Know your options and back yourself. Do the extra preparation work to make the difference.
10: Know Thyself – The real competition is with yourself when it comes to developing as team member. Be honest about your progress, performance and effort levels if you want to become better. Ask yourself, could I do more? What could I change or do differently?
11: Be a good Ancestor – Plant trees you’ll never see. Speak often of the responsibility to protect and enhance the reputation of team for as long as you choose to wear the Lightworks shirt and to leave it in a better place for the team member who follows you. Its not about personal glory, its about the team. Participate for the name on the front of the shirt.
12: Write your Legacy – This is your time, regardless of what has gone before you there is still history to be made. Build your legacy.
