Associate Principal - Project Manager II - Security

Summary

Join TEECOM, a rapidly growing consulting engineering firm, as an Associate Principal - Project Manager II. This senior-level role involves directing a team to cultivate long-term client relationships, manage projects, and ensure successful delivery. You will manage resources, mentor team members, review financial metrics, and identify business opportunities. The position requires expertise in technology systems design and construction, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and experience with large-scale projects. Success in this role includes mentoring junior staff, managing projects effectively, gaining repeat clients, and meeting performance goals. TEECOM offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, and performance-based bonuses.

Requirements

• Keep track of multiple projects and client and team member requests, often on a last-minute basis with excellent follow-up to assure promises are kept
• Thoroughly documents, updates, and maintains process documentation, notes, and decisions across appropriate platforms to ensure workflows, processes, and discussions are accessible and up-to-date
• Conduct business communications in an effective, professional, and concise manner, both verbally and in written formats, and in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group settings. You must read, write, speak, compute, and problem-solve various tasks. Break down complex concepts into smaller and more digestible components that allow for a greater level of understanding by others
• Work as a functional member of a team and successfully work with other teams and business functions to achieve positive results. Facilitate effective project team and cross-functional interactions (Technical, Operations, BD, Marketing, etc.)
• Approach problems using a methodical and logical method to create a workable solution. Use numbers and mathematical approaches for various tasks. Conduct research using the Internet
• Use software applications effectively and efficiently (G Suite, MS Office, Bluebeam, Slack, Revit, AutoCAD MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam Studio, etc.) to communicate and deliver work products
• Follow processes, continually seek to make processes more efficient, enforce processes, and conduct root cause analyses that lead to the update or creation of processes
• Practice the Win-Win negotiation strategy to focus on TEECOM’s interests. If done correctly, both parties will be satisfied with the outcome. Know your BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) before entering into a negotiation
• Nurture, mentor, and manage staff who work in a deadline-driven environment on projects with complex needs. These conditions can lead to stress in team members. Know how and when to apply pressure and when to nurture staff members, resulting in high levels of effective communication, team member satisfaction, motivation, and project results, and leading to a highly functional and successful team
• Mentor the technical staff and teach them the correct processes. Come prepared to maximize the effectiveness of time spent with your team, and keep timeliness in mind so that you act immediately when the situation demands it
• Break down complex projects into smaller tasks, plan, schedule, budget, and mitigate risk to successfully deliver work both for clients and internally for TEECOM. Delegate tasks to the most appropriate resource that allows for the efficient execution of the work while challenging staff and allowing them to grow
• Bachelors (business administration or construction management preferred) or equivalent experience
• Minimum of ten years experience in discipline (telecom, security, audiovisual, acoustics, Wi-Fi, network) design for facilities construction projects
• Minimum of ten years experience with project management software
• Minimum of ten years in a consulting role
• Bluebeam Studio
• Microsoft Office 365 Suite
• G Suite
• Asana
• Project Management Professional (PMP) required

Responsibilities

• Learn the building design process and the pursuit process
• Lead fee development, Professional Services Agreement (PSA) and Add Service Agreement (ASA) development, and project interview coordination
• Prep and attend pursuit interviews
• Lead fee negotiations with client
• Follow up on open pursuits
• Foster client relationships and fellow design team members and ensures all contact information and important discussions are documented in TEECOM’s CRM
• Ask clients about other current or upcoming projects
• Develop additional business with client
• Attend client and/or industry events
• Lead projects and manage teams/contractors
• Translate a client’s IT vision into a scope, schedule, and budget
• Serve as the interface between the client’s IT and Facilities staff and the integrators and contractors
• Manage expectations with vendors and engineering staff
• Oversee the design and implementation of IT infrastructure and networks
• Document processes unique to the client; track decisions, project expenses, and schedule
• Travel around the U.S. visiting various client sites and overseeing implementation
• Attend or schedule client, construction, or design team meetings to gather or disseminate project requirements as it relates to technology (telecom, security, audiovisual, network)
• Manage project communications and information related to technology
• Track and manage all design decisions via design decision log
• Develop and track projects using MS Project, Primavera, and Asana
• Coordinate all technology implementation dates with clients, vendors, and construction team
• Coordinate, track, and manage all network equipment / owner furnished contractor installed (OFCI) equipment (desktop, network, Wifi, printers) as it relates to technology deployment
• Track installation of all contractor furnished contractor installed (CFCI) equipment (cabling, audiovisual, DAS) as it relates to technology
• Track and manage the technology design to meet project requirements
• Provide project master site schedule for major milestones (program, BOM, ROM, room ready, etc.)
• Procurement support (write RFP, BOM development, procurement management, quote review, delivery tracking)
• Develop and manage network patching matrices
• Coordinate move information between IT telecom and Facilities
• Communicate project status to IT owners from site-ready to go-live
• Provide project documentation to IT owners upon project completion
• Coordinate review of lessons learned upon project completion
• Provide weekly project status reporting to client
• Complete financial reconciliation (quotes vs. ROM) if requested
• Assist with recruiting efforts and the candidate experience
• Regularly document, update, and maintain team-related processes, workflows, and best practices. Actively initiate and participate in discussions about project challenges, process improvements, and other topics that enhance internal documentation and contribute to the team’s success and collaboration
• Perform other work related duties as assigned
• Ensure timesheets/expenses/billing/invoices are accurate
• Achieve billed revenue target each quarter
• Identify, prepare, and secure authorization for Additional Services Agreement (ASA) when scope of the project deviates from the Professional Services Agreement (PSA)
• Meet project budgets and positively contribute to profitability
• Ensure that all client and design team due dates, submission dates, and completion dates are met

Preferred Qualifications

Other industry certifications (RCDD, CPP, CDT, CTS-D, PSP, etc.) are a plus

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
• Basic and voluntary life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• A 401(k) plan with profit-sharing contributions
• Paid parental leave
• Lifestyle and legal benefits
• Pet benefits
• Performance-based bonuses
• Flexible time off
• Nine scheduled paid holidays