Project Manager

SKIDATA is an international leader in the field of access solutions and their management. Worldwide, leading companies and operators of airports, shopping malls, cities, office buildings, hotels, hospitals, universities, ski resorts, stadiums and amusement parks rely on secure, future-oriented and reliable access solutions for people and vehicles.

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Van Nuys, CA

Reports to: Regional Operations Manager

Job Description:

SKIDATA, a leading provider of access solutions for parking facilities and resorts around the world is currently seeking a driven “hands-on” Project Manager to work on local projects that arise in the region. Come and join a team of “go getters” who are working with the latest payment and access technology in providing state of the art solutions for our customer base.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Use team building, communication, planning, and organizational skills to proactively manage client satisfaction and expectations for installation of Parking Access Revenue Control System at Customer locations bringing them in on time and within budget following the PMBOK project management methodology.
• Communicate and coordinate with Customer & other SKIDATA departments such as Service, installation, software development and 3rd-parties as necessary to manage project dependencies for all aspects of delivering a product.
• Report status and critical path aspects of the project, delivering messages that are clear and concise and tailored to a variety of audiences from individual team members to executive management.
• In a fast paced and changing environment, establish and manage realistic and committed project schedules, taking into consideration deadlines, dependencies, resources, and costs.
• Be a creative problem solver.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks to project development and schedule.
• Monitor and drive resolution of all project issues.
• Provide project leadership for critical initiatives.
• Provide the knowledge, leadership, enthusiasm, and vision necessary to ensure multiple projects have exceptional quality, project management oversight, and control.
• Communicate effectively with customers at all levels, monitoring and reporting on updates to open issues, current and future initiatives, and all matters of concern to customers.
• Ability to learn and understand Access Control System applications and implementation requirements to serve as implementation resource and eventually as implementation lead.
• Travel to sites in Project Manager and Implementation roles as required.
• Travel required: average 25-35%.
• Experience with configuration management, change management, and test planning
• Experience in writing scopes of work for construction sub-contractors such as General Contractors, electrical contractors, communication contractors

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Business experience + 2-3 years proven Project Management experience
• Ability to form strong, effective relationships with customers at all levels, from executive to end user.
• Expertise driving projects from start to finish while creating realistic schedules, appropriately setting customer expectations, proactively identifying and managing risks, and adjusting to changing priorities.
• Ability to manage several projects of a highly complex nature simultaneously, with local and remote teams as well as external partners.
• Strong communication – verbal and written skills and people skills.
• On-site implementation experience for software/hardware in a customer environment such as Parking, other Access control environment, AVI. RFID, CCTV. This is NOT a Software life cycle Project Management Position
• Strong communication, diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Experience with configuration management, change management, and test planning
• 3+ years’ experience with Microsoft project and/or other project management tools.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Proficiency using scheduling, productivity and communication tools.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) desired.

SKIDATA is an equal opportunity employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate in employment and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin or age.