Project Manager

Young Electric Sign Company; Las Vegas (NM); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Young Electric Sign Company in Las Vegas, NV is seeking a Project Manager to oversee complex electrical sign projects. You will manage scope, schedule, and budget, coordinating with vendors and internal teams to deliver on time and within budget.

The role requires a 6–10 year track record in project management within the electrical sign industry, strong communication, and solid budgeting skills. A related degree or equivalent experience is required, with MS Office and MS Project proficiency

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in Project Management or equivalent work experience.
• 6–10 years of professional experience in the electrical sign trade (or equivalent).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and solid organization.
• Solid knowledge of building products, construction details, regulations, and contract administration.
• Strong leadership, scheduling, analytical thinking, and results orientation.
• Proficient in budgeting and math; familiar with scheduling tools (Gantt charts).
• Experience with Yesco products and procedures is a plus; LED/electrical experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• With supervision, manage schedule, budget, and performance requirements for projects.
• Oversee project budget and schedule to deliver results on time and under budget.
• Prepare baseline project schedules reflecting tasks, time estimates, and resources.
• Lead initiating, planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling phases.
• Manage vendor relationships and generate project reports; ensure QA standards.
• Provide training and technical direction; influence and negotiate across the organization.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Construction knowledge

Budgeting

Math skills

Yesco product knowledge

LED experience

Electrical experience

Education

Associate’s degree in Project Management or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

Microsoft Project

Google Mail

Job description

Project Manager

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Job Type: Full time

Core Values

• Integrity – Reliably delivers on promises and honors commitments. Upholds ethical and social norms consistently in all actions and decisions.
• Judgment – Consistently uses appropriate strategies to achieve objectives, considering the situation, issues, and people involved to reach sound decisions.
• Self‑confidence – Willingly states and defends ideas while recognizing alternatives, standing alone when it is the best course.
• Flexibility – Demonstrates sensitivity to the organizational environment, tolerates ambiguity, shifts priorities, changes style, and responds with new approaches as needed.
• Initiative – Actively attempts to influence events, seeks opportunities to originate action, and takes action beyond explicit requests in an optimistic, self‑starter manner.
• Leadership – Champions services and products, demonstrates a positive attitude, accepts responsibility for failures, learns from mistakes, influences the organization, manages relationships, involves others, and fosters team spirit.
• Communication – Develops a communications plan detailing recipients, content, timing, and format; decides how information is gathered, stored, and presented; presents complex issues clearly; briefs listeners with appropriate detail; instructs staff, and runs effective meetings.

Responsibilities

With some supervision, performs a wide variety of relatively complex work, ensuring schedule, budget, and performance requirements are met. Oversees project budget and schedule, takes responsibility for proper completion, and consistently develops, schedules, plans projects to deliver required results on time and at or under budget. Can perform multiple assignments simultaneously and manages all aspects of moderately complex medium‑to‑large projects. Takes initiative to analyze needs and possible options, diagnoses risks and develops innovative solutions, determines approaches and options to problem‑solving, and applies risk mitigation throughout the project life cycle.

Under general direction, prepares a project schedule baseline plan accurately reflecting tasks, time estimates, and resources (including personnel, technology, and equipment) for each task. Understands client needs, defines project scope, allocates resources, identifies and addresses risks, and determines best solutions. Concludes the project once all requirements are met, conducts a post‑project audit to verify timeliness and budget compliance, ensures prompt payments based on deliverables and milestones, and, when finished, closes out the contract, resolves open items, and ensures payment.

Performs the initiating, planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling phases—including review of project scope, development of schedules and resource plans, execution of the project plan, monitoring progress against the baseline, and coordination of changes. Manages vendor relationships, generates moderate‑complex project reports, ensures timely dissemination and storage of project information, controls scope changes, processes change orders, and conducts quality assurance activities to meet relevant quality standards.

Works under general direction with established protocols, seeks assistance with complex or difficult problems, and exercises judgment and discretion freely. Provides training to others as needed, offers technical direction to the project team, holds team members and outside contractors to delivery commitments, and influences and negotiates across the organization without formal authority.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in Project Management or equivalent work experience, plus 6 to 10 years of professional experience in the electrical sign trade (or equivalent).
• Project management and/or supervisory experience required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; solid organization, detail orientation, multi‑tasking, conflict and crisis management skills.
• Solid knowledge of building products, construction details, regulations, quality standards, contract administration, and records management.
• Strong leadership, scheduling, analytical thinking, and orientation toward getting things done.
• Strong math and budgeting skills.
• Competent in MS Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Google Mail, and other communication applications; uses automated tools such as Gantt charts for scheduling.
• Strong knowledge of specific Yesco products and procedures, gained on the job and through departmental exposure.
• LED experience preferred; electrical experience preferred.

Additional Information

We maintain a drug‑free workplace.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Young Electric Sign Company is an EEO/AA employer. We welcome all qualified jobseekers and will consider candidates without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other protected status.