Project Manager - Audio-Visual

Bluum; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluum in Dallas is looking for a Systems Integrations Project Manager to oversee end-to-end installations from point-of-sale integration to customer signoff. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and manage scope, schedule, and budget to ensure successful outcomes.

The role requires strong communication, site visits, and the ability to read blueprints, handle changes, and provide clear project documentation and closeout deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; secondary diploma required.
• 2 years’ related experience in audio/visual design or full life-cycle project management.
• Knowledge of audio/video systems including video projection, production, switching and distribution.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines with minimal supervision.
• Strong written and verbal communication and report-writing skills.
• Ability to read blueprints and interpret technical instructions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee completion of Systems Integrations projects from POS to signoff.
• Communicate between internal and external customers.
• Attend in-person project management and onsite meetings.
• Perform site visits to verify scope, equipment, and readiness.
• Develop project plans to meet timelines and budgets.
• Coordinate and verify installation logistics.
• Provide project status updates and closeout documentation.
• Identify and pursue potential future sales opportunities.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Written communication

Verbal communication

Report writing

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Blueprint reading

Mathematical aptitude

Calm under pressure

Multitasking

Education

Secondary diploma

Bachelor’s degree preferred

PMP Certification

Tools

Audio/Video systems

PM software

Blueprints reading

Job description

This position is responsible for overseeing the successful completion of Systems Integrations projects from point-of-sale through completion and customer signoff.

Essential Functions

• Communicate efficiently and effectively between internal and external customers.
• Attend in-person project management and onsite project related meetings as necessary.
• Perform site visits on projects, as outlined in the PM manual, to verify Scope of services, equipment list accuracy, and site conditions/readiness to ensure proper installation and systems functionality.
• Develop project plan(s) in conjunction with the project team with the goal of delivering a successful installation within the goals of project timeline, budget, and other project success indicators.
• Facilitate customer Change Orders.
• Coordinate and/or verify installation logistics.
• Solve problems in a calm and orderly fashion as they arise to ensure quality and satisfaction. Follow up with the customer to make sure that the problem was solved appropriately.
• Aid Sales Engineers, Sales Representatives, Systems Integration Sales Support staff, other Project Managers, and Installers as required by each project.
• Provide Systems Installers all necessary information to complete equipment installation, including a handover meeting prior to the start of each installation.
• Review completed projects, making sure that the project is completed accurately and to the customer’s satisfaction.
• Answer or facilitate the answer to technical questions and concerns on current and completed System Integration installations.
• Provide Sales Support Staff and Management with up to date project billing information and project status updates.
• Verify and coordinate the creation and/or updating of all relevant project closeout documentation (as-builts, user-guides, signoffs, etc.) at project completion.
• Provide basic system training to customers as needed.
• Update project tracker and other internal measurable documents.
• Recognizing and channeling potential future sales opportunities.

Qualifications

• Excellent organizational skills.
• Exceptional time management and prioritization skills. Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously.
• Ability to communicate clearly in written and verbal form. Ability to write clear and timely emails.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
• Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision, while additionally demonstrating expertise in handling difficult or escalating situations in a calm and professional manner.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to read and mark-up blueprints of installation projects. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Required Education & Experience

• Secondary diploma required, Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• PMP Certification a plus. Candidates will be expected to pursue PMP certification as a condition of any employment offer for this position.
• 2 years’ related experience and/or training in audio/visual design or full life-cycle project management.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience totaling five years may be substituted for the degree.
• Knowledge of audio/video systems to include video (projection, production, switching and distribution methods)