Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Company Name: Alpha

Location: Eden Prairie, MN or Remote

Are you a wizard at managing projects? Do you thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment? If so, Alpha is looking for a Project Manager to join our team of superheroes!

Who IS Alpha? Alpha is a nationally recognized provider of technology solutions that makes exceptional and captivating experiences possible. We enable our clients to achieve their technology vision and deliver powerful experiences for their audiences. With over 50 years of industry experience, Alpha is the premier provider of audio visual, IPTV, and broadcast technology solutions for collegiate and professional sports organizations, television stations, corporations, governments, academic institutions, and much more! 

As a Project Manager, you will be the champion of planning, executing, and completing broadcast technology solutions for our clients. We need someone who's not afraid to be a team player and who's willing to put on their cape and fly to the rescue of our clients, upholding our values of Steadfast Collaboration, Proven Innovation, Courageous Accountability, Relentless Client Focus, and Fierce Integrity.

As the Project Manager, you'll be responsible for leading the charge in the initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of projects. You'll be the single point of contact for all stakeholders, making sure timelines and deliverables are met in accordance with pre-determined client expectations. You'll be the hero who saves the day by ensuring the financial success of each project. You'll even coordinate with other departments to make sure all aspects of each project are compatible.

As our Project Manager, you'll have the power to:

• Lead project planning sessions like a pro.
• Create detailed project plans and timelines with the speed of a bullet.
• Manage project execution and delivery like a superhero.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues faster than a speeding train.
• Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and client expectations like a mastermind.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with clients, vendors, and internal teams like a social butterfly.
• Facilitate project team meetings like a leader and provide guidance to team members like a wise sage.
• Provide project status reports to senior management like a boss.

But wait, there's more! We're looking for someone with at least 5 years of project management experience. You must have a proven track record of delivering technology solutions on time and within budget. You need excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, and be able to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

This is a full time, exempt position that can be based out of our headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN or remotely in the US.

So, if you're ready to put on your cape and join our team of superheroes and apply today! Together, we'll save the day!

Summary:

The Project Manager is responsible for the successful Initiation, Planning, Design, Execution, Monitoring, Controlling and Closure of the project. Ultimately accountable for the financial success as well as ensuring timelines and deliverables are met in accordance with pre-determined client expectations. The single point of contact for all stakeholders. The Project Manager will work directly with clients to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope and budget. He or she will coordinate with other departments to ensure all aspects of each project are compatible.

Responsibilities:

• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members.
• Review & understand SOWs and project contracts to determine time to deliver, allotment of available and required internal and/or third-party resources to various phases of project.
• Responsible for coordinating all activities associated with the timely, accurate, and on-budget completion of the project.
• Responsible for leading a project meeting among Sales, Engineers, customer resources, Finance (as needed), Third Party resources (as needed).
• Responsible for effective communication to all project stakeholders including change orders and delivery, on-site visits (as needed).
• Provide updates to management including weekly project review meetings.
• Engage Finance/accounting and purchasing department personnel as needed for project purchases and/or equipment.
• Review project status daily to keep it on schedule financially, identify problem areas, and spearhead resolution.
• Provide clear and concise communications when there are any deviations to project scope, timeline, or financials.
• Raise awareness immediately to management regarding potential issues or any costs that will affect Alpha financially on assigned projects.
• Ensure that any scope, schedule, cost or change of terms are handled in accordance to stated change order procedures.
• Retain responsibility for resolving all project related issues.
• Prepare project reports as requested by management and PMO Director.
• Respond to communications from customers regarding problems or concerns in a timely and professional manner with by returning all phone calls or emails.
• Ensure that approved methods, processes and tools are consistently followed using Alpha’s documented Project Management Methodology.
• All other duties as assigned and deemed appropriate.

Requirements:

• Up to 30% travel, occasionally on a last-minute basis.
• Occasional evening and weekend work.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Knowledge of established industry standard Project Management Methodologies (PMI).
• Prior experience managing multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope change and billing within a for profit environment.
• Experience using project tracking tools.
• Excellent organizational skills demonstrated by managing multiple priorities/projects.
• Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated by ability to lead client and internal team through the duration of the project.
• Demonstrated clarity and accuracy of written documentation.
• High level of organization
• High level of job site familiarity i.e., construction and corporate atmosphere.
• Must be able to communicate effectively in a team.
• Ability to read and comprehend CAD drawings, blueprints, and technical drawings.
• Must have excellent computer skills.
• Self-motivated.
• Resourceful.
• Ability to solve unusual or unexpected problems.

Education/Experience:

• 5+ Years Project Management Experience.
• Four-year degree or combination of schooling and project management experience.
• 3+ years audio visual and/or broadcast project management experience (preferred, not required).

Computer Skills:

• Proficient with Microsoft Suite including Word, Outlook, and Excel.
• Microsoft Project.
• Q360 preferred.

Certificates and Licenses:

• PMP or CAPM preferred.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to lift, raise, lower, push or carry up to 50 lbs. from ground to waist, waist to overhead and from one surface to another at mid-level.
• Remaining in a stationary position, often sitting for prolonged periods.
• Ability to bend, crouch, kneel or crawl often in small or cramped spaces.
• Ability to ascend or descend structures like ladders, scaffolding, ropes, or poles that require the use of both upper and lower body to climb up to 25 feet tall.
• Ability to walk/navigate/stand on both even and uneven surfaces.
• Ability to enter text or data into a computer or other machine by means of a traditional keyboard or 10-Key.
• Clarity of vision at approximately 20 inches or less (that is, working with small objects or reading small print), including use of computers.
• Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or the public and to convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• The ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech both in person, by telephone or other technology.

Sponsorship:

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Benefits We Offer:

As Alpha strives to be a premiere provider of audio and video solutions for our clients, we also strive to be a premiere employer for our employees. We provide a full array of benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision. We offer employer-paid Life, AD&D, Short- & Long-Term Disability. We also offer a variety of financial products to our employees including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for medical and dependent child/elder care, Health Savings Accounts (HSA) as well as 401k and 401k Roth’s.  All our new full-time employees are eligible the first day of employment.

In addition, we offer a competitive annual time off package including holidays, vacation days, personal/sick leave days, birthday holiday, volunteer time off, and paid bereavement leave.

Equal Opportunity:

At Alpha, we are committed to being an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.