Electronic Security Senior Project Manager - Sterling, VA

Diversified; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Diversified is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale Electronic Security Systems (ESS) projects from initiation through closure on a nationwide basis. You’ll manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client satisfaction, coordinating cross-functional teams and executive communication to ensure successful delivery.

You will interface with clients, supervise field teams, and drive risk mitigation while maintaining profitability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Project Management experience in commercial construction or ESS environments.
• Proven ability to follow repeatable processes and participate in CPI to improve workflows.
• Experience driving waterfall schedules to fixed delivery dates while controlling for quality and profitability.
• Strong technical abilities and quick learning of new technologies.
• Experience in a client-facing role with enterprise-level clients.
• Understanding of when to implement Agile within a waterfall program to balance speed and risk.
• Solid understanding of PMP methodologies and best practices.
• Travel up to 25% of the time is required.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license in their state of residence.

Responsibilities

• Leads delivery of physical security systems by managing implementation, coordinating teams, and ensuring timelines, scope, and quality.
• Demonstrates expertise in CCTV, access control, intrusion detection, and perimeter security solutions.
• Develops schedules, baselines, and communicates impacts to clients.
• Coordinates field verification, quality control, and site readiness.
• Monitors budgets, costs, margins, and proactively addresses financial risks.
• Interfaces with clients to manage expectations, communications, and satisfaction.
• Provides standby support to team members to ensure progress and efficiency.
• Collaborates with site supervisor to drive work plans and schedules.
• Oversees commissioning activities, testing, and documentation for system handover.
• Facilitates project turnover and client training with service teams.

Skills

5+ years PM experience

Process improvement (CPI)

Waterfall scheduling

Learn new technologies

Client-facing

Enterprise level clients

Agile in waterfall

PMP methodologies

Driver's license

Travel up to 25%

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

How You’ll Contribute:

As a Senior Project Manager in Electronic Security Systems (ESS), you oversee all aspects of project execution—including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client satisfaction—across the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to closure. You are accountable for the successful delivery of large-scale, complex ESS projects, requiring effective delegation, diligent follow-through, and assurance of key deliverables. Your role centers on harnessing subject matter expertise, driving decision-making, and aligning cross-functional teams, all while maintaining clear and impactful communication with stakeholders and executive leadership.

The Sr PM is responsible for overseeing and performing project management functions with respect to cost, quality and schedule. The Sr PM will act as the person responsible on their assigned projects and have direct control over all project management activities. This position provides oversight and direction to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

As a primary interface to the client, the Sr. Project Manager develops a strong long-term relationship - managing the client relationship, including expectations, communications and satisfaction.

What You’ll Do:

Daily activities include:

• Leads the delivery of physical security systems by managing implementation, coordinating teams, and ensuring compliance with specifications, timelines, and quality standards.
• Demonstrates expertise in the delivery and integration of physical security technologies, including closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems, electronic access control systems, intrusion detection alarms, and perimeter security solutions.
• Must possess a strong understanding of general construction sequencing and its impact on project scheduling, risk mitigation, and potential delays. Responsible for identifying, qualifying, and quantifying construction-related risks, and communicating those risks clearly and effectively to the stakeholders in written form to support proactive planning and resolution.
• Collaborates in design reviews to support accurate and comprehensive field documentation across project teams.
• Demonstrated proficiency in developing schedules, establishing project baselines, and identifying, qualifying, and quantifying deviations, with clear communication of impacts to the client.
• Responsible for coordinating field verification of prospective work sites, ensuring compliance with quality control requirements, confirming readiness, and documenting site conditions.
• Demonstrates a strong ability to monitor and control the financial health of projects, including tracking budgets, costs, and margins. Proactively identifies financial risks and implements corrective actions to prevent margin erosion, ensuring profitability and alignment with financial targets.
• Proactively identifies potential customer concerns and addresses them before they escalated into issues. Delivers thoughtful, comprehensive solutions to both clients and internal stakeholders, fostering trust and ensuring a smooth project experience.
• Provides flexible, on-demand support to team members, proactively assisting with tasks, problem-solving, and resource coordination to help ensure project success and team efficiency. Demonstrates a collaborative mindset and a willingness to step in wherever needed to keep work progressing and goals on track.
• Partners with the site supervisor to establish and drive the project’s work plan and schedule, ensuring alignment with overall project goals and timelines.
• Coordinates stakeholder activities to enable system programming and final checkout of systems.
• Requires proven experience in coordinating all critical activities involved in the successful commissioning of security systems, including planning, execution, testing, and documentation. The candidate must ensure systems are fully operational, meet design specifications, and are ready for client handover.
• Works closely with the site supervisor, general contractor, and end user to develop and manage a comprehensive punch list of outstanding tasks following substantial completion. Ensures timely resolution of remaining items to support project closeout and client satisfaction.
• Facilitates project turnover and training sessions with clients, and service team.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that may be met by an employee. The employee may be exposed to construction site conditions on a regular basis. Employees will be responsible for their safety while on job sites and to comply with all safety regulations in place by the GC. Use of PPE is usually required on job sites. The environment may include hospital and medical facilities. The employee can typically spend at least 40% of their time on their feet and be required to mobile around the construction site. The employee must have the ability to occasionally climb ladders, use stairs and lift and/or move materials up to 20 pounds in construction areas. The individual is regularly required to use keyboards, test equipment and controls required for SI installation projects. Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth vision. When not on construction sites, the employee will experience normal office conditions and be required to use office equipment such as computers, peripherals, etc.

Travel:

Frequent travel by car and occasional airplane trips are required. Employees must possess a valid driver’s license in their state of residence. This will be evaluated based on strength of the candidate. Local travel to client sites (within a 2-hour driving distance each way) will make up 70-90% usually. Less than 10% remote travel is required on a regular basis.

What You’ll Bring:

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Project Management experience in commercial construction trades and settings or experience with Electronic Security Systems (ESS)
• Proven ability to follow repeatable processes and participate in Constant Process Improvement (CPI) to iterate and improve workflows and best practices.
• Experience driving and delivering waterfall schedules to a fixed delivery date while monitoring and controlling projects to ensure required quality standards and profitability.
• Strong technical abilities and the demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Experience in a client-facing role, with a demonstrated pleasant professional demeanor.
• Experience working with or working for Enterprise level clients.
• An understanding of when and how to implement Agile methodologies within a waterfall program such they leverage speed yet are contained to avoid schedule risks.
• A solid understanding of PMP methodologies and best practices
• Travel up to 25% of the time is required
• Must possess a valid driver’s license in their state of residence.

Preferred Skills/Qualifications:

• Project Management experience with large, complex technical projects within an at-scale program
• Experience with Electronic Security Systems (ESS)
• Certified Security Project Manager – CSPM
• PMP certification from the Project Management Institute preferred