Employment:
David Vincent Design IS HIRING an EXPERIENCED, self-managed
Project Manager/Designer to work closely with the Company
Owner to successfully secure, design, and manage projects through
completion. This position requires someone to interpret notes from
initial client meetings and effectively turn them into a
design/estimate draft and comprehensive letter and proposal to the
client, and also translate the sales process into the techs’
punchlists and ensure the job moves on task, on time, on budget.
This person needs to be able to, when designing, research product
capabilities and pricing, specify equipment, make decisions (as
there are lots of ways to do all things custom), and communicate
professionally, effectively, and constantly to ensure that projects
go from concept to reality to client understanding. The person must
be able to run entire, simultaneous projects in a proactive and
financially responsible manner. This position will be on a
commission structure (tbd based on successful applicant’s
experience).
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS
- The Project Manager (PM) reports to the Company owner (but
is self-managed and self-motivated).
- Technicians report to the PM on all matters pertaining to
work being performed on his projects in process to include task
assignments, technical assistance, job site issues and parts
requirements.
AUTHORITY
- To recommend the hiring, firing and disciplining of
employees subject to approval by Company owner.
- To authorize overtime and be responsible for labor budget
to complete assigned projects on schedule.
- To recommend and effectively implement changes in company
procedures, installation practices, documentation methods, and forms
of management intended to improve efficiency, productivity and
profitability subject to approval by Company owner.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- The PM is responsible for bringing in jobs on budget, on
time, and on spec. and achieving 100% project completion and client
satisfaction.
- Maintain proper communications between the company and all
parties involved in the assigned projects throughout the
installation to include the client, gen. contractor, architect,
interior designer, lighting designer, cabinet makers, consultants,
etc.
- Ensure the timely completion and delivery of project
documents necessary to communicate to technicians the intended
wiring design, layout, appearance and programming requirements of
individual components of a project. This may include wire lists,
floor plans, functional schematics, equipment layout within a
cabinet, head end equipment layout, equipment spec sheets, rack
layout, wall plate specifications, programming info, security zone
info, lighting control system info and touch screen design.
- Ensure all project documentation is at all times
up-to-date, complete and accessible.
- Ensure proposed system designs are complete and accurate
and remain so throughout the project.
- Ensure field work is scheduled appropriately, performed to
a high-level of quality workmanship, and completed on both a timely
and profitable basis.
- Ensure photographs of wiring and system installation are
uploaded to client folder on server.
- Review end of day reports and follow up on any action
items.
- Be as thorough on “small” jobs as on “big” jobs.
- Work with office administration to ensure all equipment and
materials required for an assigned project are requested, staged,
and delivered to site on a timely basis.
- Protect company assets including tools, equipment,
vehicles, and labor resources. This includes periodic management of
inventory.
- Maintain proper training on any products being used on
assigned projects. Training may take the form of a formal training
offered by the manufacturer, reading manuals, or telephone
conversations with technical support personnel.
- Manage the expectations of clients, general contractors,
designers, consultants and other subcontractors to ensure that they
remain realistic and attainable.
- Manage client training process and development and delivery
of comprehensive client training materials.
DUTIES
- Take notes from Owner’s initial client meeting and site
walk-through and effectively create a Design/Estimate draft and
comprehensive client proposal letter.
- Effectively ascertain scope of project; research product
capabilities and pricing, and make decisions to specify appropriate
equipment.
- Maintain proactive and regular communications, in writing
as necessary, with clients, general contractors and other project
representatives in order to keep others informed about job progress,
budget, and schedule.
- Provide or coordinate the provision of all project
documentation.
- Conduct regular project update meetings to communicate
project timelines and issues including product ordering dates,
invoicing dates, changes, additional parts needed etc.
- Assure the continual update the project binder with meeting
notes, detail drawings, product specifications, correspondence,
punch lists, construction schedules, programming information, etc.
- Complete initial and updated “as built” proposals in Visio.
- Manage change orders and conduct any re-design that may be
necessary due to changes in the construction or the provision of new
information.
- Schedule, coordinate, and conduct site walk through prior
to wiring and at other times during the construction process as
necessary.
- Perform site inspections throughout the construction
process and especially during and upon the completion of each phase
of system installation to ensure quality control.
- Provide on-site field supervision as necessary.
- Provide installation and programming services in the final
stages of the project if the technical skills and expertise you
possess are required.
- Solve problems that may arise on assigned projects to
include improper design, product limitations, placement
difficulties, product interfacing issues, etc.
- Schedule labor resources as required to complete field work
on schedule.
- Schedule and conduct field project meetings as required
with lead technician for the purpose of reviewing the system design,
installation procedures and methodology, or programming details.
- Schedule and conduct meetings with clients or their
designees to review their expectations pertaining to finish details,
programming, intended use, and completion schedule.
- Encourage safety practices and enforce safety requirements.
- Provide group and one-on-one training for field technicians
to include encouraging self-training through the use of technical
manuals, classes, books and technical support hotlines and online
resources.
SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
- Ability to convey complex technical information verbally
and in writing using professional, grammatically correct, and easy
to understand language to “paint a picture” of the project to the
client, contractor, etc.
- Ability to display grace under pressure at all times.
- Ability to visualize the big picture or project goal and
understand the sometimes-changing steps required to achieve that
goal.
- Minimum of three years in a custom integration environment.
Design and Project Management experience required. Sales experience
desirable.
- Must own hand tools and possess clean driving record.
MEASUREMENTS OF PERFORMANCE
- Projects are completed on schedule and within budget.
- Projects are profitable.
- Client and general contractor expectations are
satisfactorily met.
- Projects are managed proactively.
- Customer complaints and job site issues are resolved
satisfactorily.
- Project documentation is completed in detail and kept
accessible internally.
APPLICATION PROCESS
- Please apply only if you have documented experience in the
custom home integration field, an impeccalble customer service
record, and if you have a passion for learning and applying new
technologies.
- Successful candidate will email a personalized cover letter
to the Owner, Jim Zoyiopoulos at info@davidvincentdesign.com,
detailing why (s)he is the right candidate for this position with
David Vincent Design, along with a professional resume.
- Applications and salary requirements will be treated in
strict confidence, and will only be reviewed by the Owner and by the
General Manager.
- All applications will be acknowledged; qualified candidates
will be promptly contacted for an interview.
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