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PROJECT MANAGER
Key Responsibilities
The project manager has the total responsibility for the work performance on all assigned projects. This position provides all of the necessary direction, supervision, coordination and follow-up on the work to ensure quality standards are met, efficiency levels are maintained, and the client satisfaction, respect, and confidence are assured.
Specific Duties
Marketing
- Pursue new projects with current clients. Work to establish a strong, positive reputation so that current clients will recommend and refer new clients.
- Participate actively in the client community to develop a network of contacts, build the firm’s image and to identify leads for new business.
- Define the job scope, prepare proposals, and plan the oral presentation of the firm’s technical qualifications to do projects. Maintain an active marketing effort with current, former, and referral clients.
Client Service
- Maintain regular contact with assigned clients through direct calls, meetings, and/or written reports to communicate progress, resolve problems, and to assure client satisfaction with the work.
- Resolve any technical, scheduling, billing, staffing, and/or quality issues that have been raised by the client
- Periodically schedule client meetings and entertainment events in order to cultivate personal friendships and establish close ties with current and potential clients.
Project Planning and Control
- Prepare the project cost estimate and conduct the contract negotiation with current clients. Follow firm wide guidelines for client agreement on fees, scope, schedule, and conditions. Determine contract language and prepare work plans for final approval by an officer.
- Prepare work plan, set the schedule, establish the budget, and organize the execution of the project. Schedule and lead project meetings to set up job and review progress.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for all project work. Establish design controls, constraints, and criteria for project staff. Regularly checks the work to assure the work is executed properly and effectively.
- Regularly review work load projections and request additions to staff as necessary to fulfill project commitments. Delegate task assignments and allocate work load levels to the project team.
- Frequently check the schedule and budget performance on jobs in progress. Act to see that the job billing is completed on a timely basis, all extra work is adequately documented and fees for the firm’s services are promptly collected.
- Regularly monitor projects to assure that quality standards are maintained on all work submitted to the clients.
Staff Development
- Develop the technical and administrative skills of subordinates so that projects are run efficiently and available resources are utilized in an optimum way. Conduct regular meetings to discuss current performance on jobs and to address problems as they arise.
- Plan the staffing needs of the project team based on monthly and long-term work projections. Responsible for the recruitment, selection, and quality of new members being added to the group. Assure that an effective team is established and the skill levels of the staff meet the needs of the work being performed.
- Provide performance reviews on his staff annually. Conduct career development discussions and work with subordinates to develop them for future assignments. Reviews the preparation of performance reviews and salary changes for all members of the team, and assure that they are handled in a timely manner.
Leadership
- Encourage professionalism by sponsoring and participating in continuing education programs and being active in professional associations.
- Develop and maintain a positive work environment for all employees. Sponsor good communication with the staff, encourage creativity and innovation, and assists individuals with their personal and professional growth.
- Contribute to the short-term planning process for the office. Identifies capital equipment needs for the project team and assigns resources in the most effective and cost efficient way.
- Strive for personal development in all areas of general management. Set a positive example for the staff, delegate responsibility, exercise good judgment in decision making and deals with conflict in an impartial and reasoned way.
- OTHER RELATED DUTIES AS DEEMED NECESSARY
Job Qualifications
Education: B.S. degree in civil engineering, surveying, or planning.
Licensure: Requires California registration as a Civil Engineer or Land Surveyor to manage civil engineering or land surveying projects. An exemption may be allowed with registration in other States or an additional five (5) years of work experience.
Experience: At least ten (10) years of professional level experience, with progressively responsible positions covering a full range of assignments in either civil engineering, land surveying, or planning.
Skills/Job Knowledge: Must have knowledge of project management methods, contract management, project scheduling and reporting, budget control, proposal writing, communications and human resources management.
Computer Skills: Familiarity with computer software for budgeting and scheduling. Also, knowledge of computer aided design and drafting is important.
Level of Supervision: This is the first level assigned management position for client projects. Group is generally made up of 3 to 10 employees in both technical and support positions. A project manager reports to either a senior project manager or an officer.
Referral Bonus Level 4
Amtec Inc.
Job Title: Project Manager / Digital Marketing Coordinator
Location: Remote (EST hours)
Duration: 12-month Contract
The Company
Headquartered in Los Angeles, this leader in the Entertainment & Media space is focused on delivering world-class stories and experiences to its global audience. To offer the best entertainment experiences, their technology teams focus on continued innovation and utilization of cutting-edge technology.
Digital Marketing – Project Manager
The Customer Acquisition team is tasked with driving new subscriber growth. The team is responsible for the planning, execution and optimization of user acquisition and performance marketing campaigns. This role sits on the project management team within the marketing strategy team, responsible for overseeing performance marketing creative and messaging. We work as a bridge between the creative, media buying and strategy teams to ensure that creative is requested, delivered, and approved in a timely manner. We’re looking for someone who can stay organized in a complex team environment. The ideal candidate also helps elevate our strategic thinking around the creative we run across our acquisition channels.
- Work with regional and global strategy teams on paid media campaign planning and aligning strategy
- Identify potential risks for upcoming campaign launches and proactively troubleshoot and/or communicate to stakeholders
- Communicate regional priorities and strategy to larger global team to ensure alignment
- Build project plans for campaign & creative deliverables
- Help to troubleshoot workflows/process issues
- QA and deliver creative assets
- Always looking for ways to implement and/or improve processes
- Qualifications & Experience:
- 2 years of work experience in digital marketing, project management, creative operations or similar roles.
- Experience managing projects across multiple teams and demonstrated success in getting things done in complex environments.
- Knowledge of digital marketing creative best practices
- Solutions oriented
- Familiarity with direct to consumer marketing
- Familiarity with project management tools (Ex: Airtable, JIRA) a plus
- Familiarity with sports and/or entertainment marketing a plus
- Flexibility & ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment
- A strong communicator with a can-do, positive attitude and a strong desire to get things done
Amtec Inc.
Job Title: Sr. Technical Project Managaer
Location: Orlando, FL (Hybrid 3 days onsite)
Duration: 12-month Contract
The Company
Headquartered in Los Angeles, this leader in the Entertainment & Media space is focused on delivering world-class stories and experiences to its global audience. To offer the best entertainment experiences, their technology teams focus on continued innovation and utilization of cutting-edge technology.
Responsibilities Of The Technical Project Manager
- Lead and direct technology solutions through all phases of the project.
- Must be able to manage all efforts required to remain within the bounds of schedule and budget with the ultimate objective of proactively maintaining a high level of user satisfaction throughout the project.
- Demonstrates experience in managing projects of various sizes, complexity and types (e.g., application development, outsources services).
- Can execute Software Development Methodology and techniques as developed and governed by our internal Project Management office.
- Proactively fosters an environment of collaboration among teams and provides day-to-day direction for team resources. This includes all aspects of systems implementation from requirements gathering, analysis and design, configuration and test, through deployment and support of various system applications including developing detailed work plans, assigning responsibilities, organizing inter- and intra-departmental activities, conducting project meetings, providing project tracking details and project analysis.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of eight (8) years relevant experience in Project Management
- Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making skills as well as continuous improvement process skills.
- Demonstrated leadership ability and industry expertise in IT Project Management
- Experience in a large media, technology, manufacturing or internet company or other industries
- Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget
- Proven ability to inspire, motivate and lead a team to produce quality work in the development of solutions
- Demonstrated inclusive leadership that embraces diversity
- Proven ability to successfully operate in a highly matrix organizational system where partnership and influence are key drivers of success
- Has shown a value for initiating change and acting with integrity when tough decisions have to be made
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, targeting audiences at many levels in the organization
- Strong presentation and group dynamics skills
- Demonstrated strong partnering, negotiating and consensus building skills
- Demonstrated budget and scheduling management skills
- Expertise in Project Management Institute (PMI) principles
- Expertise with project management tools such as Microsoft Project 2010, including baselining and tracking performance to plan
- Operational and technical project management expertise
- High-energy and fast-learner that is flexible in a constantly changing environment
- High attention to detail for process improvement opportunities
- Experience leading large scale business transformational projects with numerous up/downstream system integrations
- Agile Methodology experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise with Project Financial Management in myPPM (Clarity) including forecasting, labor management, tracking against forecasts, communication with resource managers, etc.
Amtec Inc.