Project Manager
Job Details
Job Description
- Oversee the completion of custom installation projects by planning, organizing team, and making key decisions
- Manage installers and programming staff to ensure that projects fall within the proposed budget and are completed on time
- Travel between project sites to ensure quality of work is at its highest standards, checking the performance, health, and safety of the team
- Keep abreast of technical understanding of system installations to help with problem-solving and dealing with complex, detailed projects
- Coordinate and work with a variety of different people such as contractors, subcontractors, architects, and suppliers
- Manage project costs and control budgets, ensuring that the project does not go over the proposed costs
- Evaluate data to determine the needs of a project, understand the scope of a project, assess risks, assign tasks, and plan for presentation
Job Requirements
- Know how to make and follow a schedule in a basic computer program so the project is completed to the set deadline
- Like to support and supervise your staff in day-to-day management not only because it’s your job, but because that’s just who you are
- Working with sales, techs, and other staff, be flexible to move in different directions as necessary to deal with post-install or service call issues
- Are smart about resources required for each aspect of the project, such as equipment needed, materials, and labor, assessing each of these for budget limitations
- Able to acquire material and equipment on time and check stock levels regularly to make sure anything that’s running low can be reordered
- Able to assign tasks and give clear orders to installers, communicate complex information and technical details, and ensure that all members of the team are aware of deadlines
- Able to create agendas for meetings and prepare documents, such as schedules and logs
- Can smoothly handle unexpected issues and hold-ups and solve any challenges that arise over the course of a build, such as materials not arriving on time
- Deal with demanding and needy homeowners that want things done now
- Be able to work a negotiable 4 day/10 hr schedule, and occasionally put in extra time during peak season
Job Benefits
- Position starts at $25/hr depending on experience, full-time, with health benefits . This is not a giant tech company from Silicon Valley with all the extravagant benefits like unlimited PTO, free lunch, arcade rooms, nap rooms, or bring-your-pet-to-work place
- The only fancy benefit you get at Lifestyle Electronics are free snacks and drinks. And the opportunity to work on cutting edge home automation systems
- Do your job well and you get a bonus that pays you handsomely. And you don’t have to wait until the end of the year to get it. Just show you’re more valuable than what you’re paid now
- 3-day weekend is a perk to some
- The company offers you a car to commute to work and a credit card for gas and washes
- For the right person, we offer relocation assistance or help subsidize some expenses
- We promote within because we truly want to. It’s not a dead end job if you don’t want it to be. Our sales, project managers, and programmers were all promoted from within
- Work and play in the mountains
