Audio Visual Project Manager

Role:  Audio Visual Project Manager

Contract Type:  Full-time, Permanent

Location:  London, Sunbury-upon-Thames, Livingston or Dublin

Salary : Competitive and negotiable dependent on experience, plus company benefits

Interview Process: 2 stage (Virtual and Face-to-face)

Kinly is a leading integrator of audio-visual and unified communications solutions, and the largest in Europe, serving as a globally trusted technology advisor to leading organisations. For more than 25 years, we have been designing, developing, integrating and supporting complex audiovisual solutions and businesses rely on us to deliver consistently secure and flexible meeting experiences.

As our business and client base continues to develop further, we now have a new opportunity for an experience AV Project Manager to join our team.

The successful candidate will oversee all commercial facets of Audio-Visual projects, acting as the primary liaison for clients to guarantee the fulfilment of contractual obligations throughout the project's lifecycle.

Primarily, the Project Manager's remit involves overseeing Integration category projects, encompassing global roll-outs, upgrades, and auditoria projects and will be responsible for managing project budgets and schedules, fostering external collaboration with clients and internal coordination with Project & Supplementary teams.

Duties include supervision of coordination aspects related to project engineering, rack build, installation, commissioning, programming, training, and support and the facilitation of technical coordination at each project milestone; nurturing a robust partnership with the designated Project Engineer. 

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure that projects are completed in a timely and efficient manner

• Full responsibility of commercial and contractual obligations of multiple projects simultaneously

• Prepare and manage project schedules and budgets, and provide updates on commercial performance and forecasting as required

• Communicate project progress and status, both internally and with the client

• Manage project scheduling and staffing with in-house and sub-contracted labour

• Oversee project site managers, Installers, Commissioning leads & Programmers

• Ensure that final documentation packages (i.e. O & M manuals, Record Information Packs, etc.) are prepared and contract close-out occurs in a timely manner

• Forecast invoicing and work effort throughout portfolio

• Travel to project/customer sites will be required in this position, as projects demand

• Facilitating quality assurance requirements as/where necessary, utilising Kinly’s QA Manager

• Fully manage all elements of Logistical requirements across a portfolio of projects

 

Skills and experience:

• Proven experience working in a similar position, with solid background in the AV industry

• Ability to interface well with clients and co-workers and to lead subordinate staff effectively

• Confident presenter and chair of meetings in person and on video calls – leading coordination of AV activities throughout the project life-cycle

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, at varying levels of value and complexity

• Well organised, with attention to detail and meticulous planning skills

• Procore & ServiceNow experience desired but not essential (Training Given)

• Able to create and manage schedules, reports and budgets

• Prince2/PMP qualification or equivalent desirable

 

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

If you do require details of the vacancy or the application process in an alternative format, please either email [email protected] outlining your requirements; or you can view the vacancy via the Kinly page on Vercida which allows you to customise the content so that you can review in a way that works best for you.

 

About Kinly

Kinly is the globally trusted AV and UCC technology advisor to world-class organisations. Our solutions drive maximum collaboration, engagement and productivity to enable a world where people can work together, from everywhere. Our people are unified by a passion for helping teams achieve their workplace communication and collaboration goals, irrespective of complexity, location or project size. We design, engineer and support audio visual and collaboration technology solutions that add real business value and deliver exceptional user experiences, every time.

 

Why Kinly?

We are experienced: When you join our family you’ll be part of a multi-award-winning team made up of the industry’s most innovative professionals.

We are proven: The world’s leading global businesses rely on us to deliver secure and reliable meeting experiences. Come with us on our journey.

We are independent: We partner with the world’s best AV vendors to deliver our customers unrivalled access to cutting edge technology tailored to their exact needs.

We are global: You’ll be working with alongside the world’s leading brands and supporting them on high-profile, international projects.

 

Equal Opportunities:

Kinly is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, gender identity, pregnancy, colour, race, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religion or any other ‘protected characteristics. We welcome your application.