Project Manager - AV Corporate

About Diversified:

Diversified is a global leader in audio visual and media innovation, recognized for designing and building the world's most experiential environments. Our award-winning team specializes in delivering solutions for the most complex, large-scale and immersive installations. Serving a global clientele that includes major media organizations and retailers, sports and live performance venues, corporate enterprises, and government agencies, Diversified partners with clients to create spaces that bring people together and keep them coming back.

What to Expect:

At Diversified, we're on a mission to create a world without boundaries, where technology enables all people to connect and experience the moments that matter, wherever they choose to be. With clients spanning the globe and an exciting pipeline of projects across industries, Diversified offers more than just a job. We offer a career path with the flexibility to grow personally and professionally, wherever your ambitions take you.

As a Diversified associate, you'll dive headfirst into big, complex, and rewarding projects that push the boundaries of what's possible. Plus, you'll enjoy a flexible work environment, competitive compensation and benefits, and a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT AT DIVERSIFIED.

How You'll Contribute:

We are seeking a skilled and reliable project manager to operate within one of our client ecosystems. Daily activities include project communications, scheduling, task lists for technicians, managing deliverables from engineering, CAD and Programming and overseeing the completion of projects. The PM is responsible for completing systems integration projects on time, on budget and achieving high customer satisfaction from our stakeholders. The majority of this employee's time will be spent managing projects and communicating with all project stakeholders. This person will need to interface with Diversified project management teams, as well as other integrators. This person will be helping to constantly improve the established processes.

As the primary interface to the client, the project manager develops a strong long-term relationship. They manage all stakeholder relationships, including expectations, communications and satisfaction. This person will need to have advanced diplomacy and soft skills, organizational skills, and a strong attention to detail.

The Project Manager will be required to be on site Monday-Friday for eight (8) hours per day.

Onsite in the Los Angeles area.

What You'll Bring:

• Coordinates and communicates with all project stakeholders and clients

• Provides clear leadership and ownership for the project within the organization, including accurate and timely verbal and written communication and follow up.

• Coordinates all activities associated with the timely, accurate and on-budget completion of the project, including engaging stakeholders, delegating responsibilities clearly and running client and internal project meetings.

• Provides support and assistance to team members as needed in order help them be successful and get the job done.

• Ensures appropriate and frequent communication between stakeholders.

• Resolves destructive conflict.

• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams with regard to installation projects

• Assumes ownership of individual projects and assignments

• Establishes and maintains communication with Account Executives, Directors, installation technicians, subcontractors, clients, etc.

• Develops and communicates project updates as required.

• Provides constant monitoring of labor, equipment and materials budgets.

• Provides and/or directs technical and administrative support to project team members.

• Develops and maintains all related project schedules.

• Performs field verification of prospective work site. Documents all issues with site and keeps everyone informed of potential issues and solutions.

• Coordinates all drawings and documentation between all internal and external stakeholders.

• Facilitates and directs design reviews to assure proper documentation in the field.

• Coordinates all system programming and final checkout of systems. Provides punch-list of remaining tasks after substantial completion.

• Contracts with contractors and other trades when necessary.

• Monitors status of projects including cost, timing and staffing to ensure timely and accurate completion of projects.

• Ensures quality and continuous improvement.

• Coordinates training & turnover of projects to client, service department, & sales.

What You'll Do:

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience as a project manager in commercial construction trades and settings is required.

• Familiarity with audio/video systems installations.

• Strong skills to negotiate a very complex set of variables between system design, site conditions and a widely varying set of expectations with multiple stakeholders.

• The skill of communicating both verbally and in writing to manage all these variables

• High level of awareness, emotional intelligence and people management skills.

• Ability to manage the forces of change in every project environment.

• Ability to balancing schedules, budgets, scope, quality and client satisfaction are a very complex set of variables.

• Knowledgeable of low voltage electrical projects.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Supervisory and people skills.

• Ability and skills to diagnose and resolve complex technical, political, and people-related problems.