Senior Project Manager

Job Details:

Job Location:

Eden Prairie or Remote - EDEN PRAIRIE, MN 55344, Position Type:
Full Time, Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year, Travel Percentage:
Up to 30%, Position Summary

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the successful planning, execution, financial management, and closeout of complex broadcast systems design and installation projects. This role leads projects from initial planning and design coordination through procurement, construction, installation, system integration, commissioning, and final client handoff.

• Lead complex broadcast system design and installation projects from project award through final completion and client acceptance.
• Develop comprehensive project execution plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, procurement strategies, and project milestones.
• Coordinate engineering, design, procurement, construction, installation, programming, commissioning, and project closeout activities.
• Establish clear project objectives, deliverables, responsibilities, timelines, and success criteria.
• Manage project activities in accordance with established processes, contractual requirements, safety expectations, and quality standards.
• Identify project risks and develop mitigation and contingency plans.
• Proactively identify potential schedule, cost, resource, scope, and quality issues before they impact the project.

• Apply construction project management principles to complex technology and broadcast installations.
• Coordinate activities with general contractors, construction managers, architects, engineers, owners' representatives, subcontractors, and other trades.
• Understand and manage project dependencies involving construction schedules, site readiness, infrastructure, electrical, structural, network, cabling, and other building systems.
• Participate in construction meetings, site walks, coordination meetings, and project progress reviews.
• Monitor site readiness and ensure project requirements are coordinated with construction activities and other trades.
• Manage installation sequencing and coordinate technology installation activities within the overall construction schedule.

• Develop, maintain, and manage project budgets and financial forecasts.
• Monitor project costs, labor utilization, material costs, subcontractor costs, committed costs, and projected costs to complete.
• Analyze project financial performance and identify trends or variances requiring corrective action.
• Manage project billing, invoicing, purchase orders, commitments, and financial reporting.
• Maintain accurate project forecasts and provide regular financial updates to leadership.
• Identify opportunities to improve project profitability while maintaining scope, schedule, quality, and customer expectations.
• Manage change orders, including identification, documentation, pricing, negotiation, approval, and implementation.

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules using appropriate project management tools.
• Coordinate internal labor resources, field technicians, engineers, programmers, designers, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Monitor planned versus actual labor and proactively address resource constraints.
• Track project milestones, critical-path activities, dependencies, and schedule risks.
• Coordinate multiple projects and competing priorities while maintaining appropriate levels of communication and control.

• Partner closely with broadcast system designers, engineers, field installation teams, programmers, and technical specialists.
• Develop a working understanding of broadcast, AV, video, audio, control, networking, infrastructure, and systems-integration environments.
• Coordinate the transition from system design and engineering into procurement, construction, installation, programming, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
• Ensure project execution aligns with approved system designs, drawings, specifications, equipment requirements, and client expectations.
• Facilitate resolution of technical, construction, procurement, and installation issues in collaboration with subject matter experts.
• Maintain clear documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients and key project stakeholders.
• Establish strong relationships with customers, general contractors, architects, consultants, owners' representatives, vendors,…