Senior Project Manager - Sports Venue

Diversified; Kenilworth (NJ); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Diversified is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex sports venue projects nationwide through the full lifecycle, from initiation to close. The role emphasizes rigorous communication with stakeholders, strong leadership of cross-functional teams, and accountability for budget, schedule, and quality.

The PM will mentor other project managers and serve as the primary client interface, coordinating with account executives, directors, technicians, subcontractors, and clients to ensure

Qualifications

• Senior Project Manager experience on large-scale projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication with project stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor other project managers.

Responsibilities

• Daily activities include project communications, scheduling, task lists for technicians, managing deliverables from engineering, CAD and Programming and overseeing the completion of projects.
• Oversee systems integration projects on time and on budget while ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Maintain the client relationship, including expectations, communications and satisfaction.
• Provide leadership and ownership for the project within Diversified, ensuring timely verbal and written communication and follow-up.
• Coordinate activities to ensure timely, accurate, and on-budget project completion; engage stakeholders and delegate responsibilities.
• Support and assist team members to help them succeed and deliver the project.

Skills

Project management

Client relations

Communication

Team leadership

Scheduling

Budgeting

Tools

CAD

Job description

About Diversified:

Diversified is a global leader in audiovisual and media technology. We design and build innovative spaces and experiences for clients across industries such as corporate, entertainment, sports, retail, and government. Our team partners with organizations around the world to create environments that connect people through technology.

What to Expect:

At Diversified, you'll work on exciting and complex projects with opportunities to grow your career. We offer a collaborative and flexible work environment, competitive pay and benefits, and a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and innovation. If you're ready to grow, create, and make an impact, Diversified is the place to do it.

How You'll Contribute:

A Senior Project Manager (SPM) is responsible for the scope, schedule, cost, quality and client satisfaction of a project throughout its entire lifecycle, from Initiating through Closing phases. However, the PM depends on the help of other people to perform most of the actual activities of the project. A project manager's role is primarily focused around written and verbal communication to all project stakeholders.

The PM is responsible for overseeing and performing project management functions on all Sports Venue projects, budgets and scopes. The PM will act as the person responsible on their assigned projects and have direct control over all project activities. The Senior Project Manager will also mentor other Project Managers with the company. The SPM will be assigned the largest, most complex and sensitive projects. This position will be providing direction to a wide range of internal and external personnel.

Location Preference- Virtual (Nationwide)

What You'll Do:

• Daily activities include project communications, scheduling, task lists for technicians, managing deliverables from engineering, CAD and Programming and overseeing the completion of projects.
• The PM is responsible for completing systems integration projects on time, on budget and achieving high customer satisfaction from our customers.
• The majority of this employee's time will be spent managing projects and communicating with all project stakeholders.
• This person will be held accountable for following and helping to improve the established Diversified processes.
• As the primary interface to the client, the project manager develops a strong long-term relationship.
• Managing the client relationship, including expectations, communications and satisfaction.
• Coordinates and communicates.
• Provides clear leadership and ownership for the project within Diversified, including accurate and timely verbal and written communication and follow up.
• Coordinates all activities associated with the timely, accurate and on-budget completion of the project, including engaging stakeholders, delegating responsibilities clearly and running client and internal project meetings.
• Provides support and assistance to team members as needed in order help them be successful and get the job done.
• Ensures appropriate and frequent communication between stakeholders. Resolves destructive conflict.
• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams with regard to Sports Venue installation projects Assumes ownership of individual projects and assignments
• Establishes and maintains communication with Account Executives, Directors, installation technicians, subcontractors, clients, etc.
• May be required to regularly lead a team on large projects.
• Develops and communicates project updates as required.
• Provides constant monitoring of labor, equipment and materials budgets.
• Provides and/or directs technical and administrative support to project team members.
• Develops and maintains all related project schedules.
• Performs field verification of prospective work site. Documents all issues with site and keeps everyone informed of potential issues and solutions.
• Coordinates all drawings and documentation between all internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitates and directs design reviews to assure proper documentation in the field. Coordinates all system programming and final checkout of systems. Provides punch-list of remaining tasks after substantial completion.
• Contracts with contractors and other trades when necessary.
• Monitors status of projects including cost, timing and staffing to ensure timely and accurate completion of projects.
• Ensures quality and continuous improvement.
• Coordinates training & turnover of projects to client, service department, & sales.

Complexity:

• Every project is different and every set of project stakeholders is different.
• The PM needs to negotiate a very complex set of variables between system design, site conditions and a widely varying set of expectations with multiple stakeholders. The skill of communicating both verbally and in writing to manage all these variables takes a very high level of awareness, emotional intelligence and people management skills.
• The PM is constantly managing the forces of change in every project environment. Balancing schedules, budgets, scope, quality and client satisfaction are a very complex set of variables.

Decision Making Authority:

• Takes full ownership of project.
• Acts as the single point of responsibility and accountability for the project.
• Ensures schedule performance, quality of solution delivered to client, and client
• satisfaction.
• Manages and reports on the project's financials, including ensuring budget performance and profitability.
• Ensures timely and correct billings to client.
• Demonstrates proactivity, responsiveness, and follow through.
• Communicates decision options to stakeholders and manages those decisions.
• Manages a complex array of decisions at every point of the project but is rarely the sole decision maker.

Physical Working Environment:

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.
• Employee 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 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.