Remote Associate Principal - Project Manager II

TEECOM | We Make Technology Work in Buildings
Do you want to launch or advance a career at the intersection of technology and the built environment? Do you want to work with exceptional engineers to solve complex problems creatively? Do you want to work with clients to take their building experiences to the next level of connectivity, safety, and wow factor? Do you want to join a company that defines the state of the art in its practice, with visionary leadership and in-house research and development? TEECOM is a $40+ million/year consulting engineering firm with an average annual growth rate of 20% over the past 25 years. We make technology work in buildings through strategic consulting, design and engineering, project management, and enterprise support. We work hard in a fast-paced professional remote environment that will challenge you to learn and grow. TEECOM is one of the fastest-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, with additional teams in New York City, the United Kingdom, the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, and Texas. Join us and make TEECOM even better.
About the Position As a senior-level project management role, the Associate Principal - Project Manager II directs a team that works together to serve and develop long-term relationships with clients, enabling the team to win work, deliver those projects, and get paid for the work completed.
This individual will manage resources and workload assignments, mentor and develop team members, review project financial metrics, identify and follow up on leads, ensure business processes are followed, conduct creative and engineering reviews, and help bring work into the team. Impact Represent TEECOM Values and Guiding Principles: Individual demonstrates that they CARE about clients and fellow team members, adds VALUE, and earns and builds TRUST.
Deploy Technical Expertise: Individual has demonstrated expert skills in their trade and is able to succeed on their own as well as review, correct, and direct other technical staff to produce exemplary output (documents, etc.).
Make Difficult Decisions: Projects are often complex, uncertain, and full of ambiguity. Individual has experience with making difficult decisions that directly impact the success of the project.
Solicit Client Feedback: Positive and constructive feedback will have an impact on the project. Individual takes the time to routinely ask the client for feedback and documents and shares the feedback with the team.
Develop Business: Individual has identified opportunities through relationships and networking that have or will position the firm for future work, as well as providing an excellent client experience that results in repeat work.
Augment Company-Wide Communication: Individual demonstrates a commitment to elevating company-wide communication by enhancing internal documentation, fostering team collaboration, and supporting transparency across the firm.
Influence Lead by Example: Individual sets the example for the team by aligning their actions with their words.
Indirect Mentorship: Individual provides indirect mentorship to anyone who asks questions or needs guidance.
Direct Mentorship: Individual serves as a direct mentor to specific staff who seek mentorship to learn and enhance their soft and hard skills.
Technical Expertise: Individual has a deep knowledge of their discipline that is supported by continuing education and certifications.
Guide Decisions: Individual has direct influence on decisions and helps guide the decision in TEECOM’s favor.
Trusted Advisor: Individual has built trust among their clients and fellow team members and therefore is sought as a resource when other employees face difficult decisions and/or challenges.
Knowledge Knowledge of the AEC industry and the design and construction of technology systems such as telecommunications infrastructure, cabling, audiovisual, security, acoustics, and wired and wireless networks.
Delivery of system designs using an engineering approach to produce a well-coordinated set of construction documents within the project budget.
Large and complex construction projects ($500,000+ TEECOM fee) involving a multitude of disciplines with both long and fast-track timeframes (years or months) in various industry verticals (mission critical, healthcare, workplace, transportation, higher ed, government, industrial, cultural, etc).
Skills Organization: Keep track of multiple projects and client and team member requests, often on a last-minute basis with excellent follow-up to assure promises are kept.
Documentation: Thoroughly documents, updates, and maintains process documentation, notes, and decisions across appropriate platforms to ensure workflows, processes, and discussions are accessible and up-to-date.
Communication: Conduct business communications in an effective, professional, and concise manner, both verbally and in written formats, and in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group settings. You must read, write, speak, compute, and problem-solve various tasks. Break down complex concepts into smaller and more digestible components that allow for a greater level of understanding by others.
Teamwork: Work as a functional member of a team and successfully work with other teams and business functions to achieve positive results. Facilitate effective project team and cross-functional interactions (Technical, Operations, BD, Marketing, etc.).
Problem Solving: Approach problems using a methodical and logical method to create a workable solution. Use numbers and mathematical approaches for various tasks. Conduct research using the Internet.
Software: Use software applications effectively and efficiently (G Suite, MS Office, Bluebeam, Slack, Revit, AutoCAD MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam Studio, etc.) to communicate and deliver work products.
Process Oriented: Follow processes, continually seek to make processes more efficient, enforce processes, and conduct root cause analyses that lead to the update or creation of processes.
Negotiation: Practice the Win-Win negotiation strategy to focus on TEECOM’s interests. If done correctly, both parties will be satisfied with the outcome. Know your BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) before entering into a negotiation.
Emotional Intelligence: Nurture, mentor, and manage staff who work in a deadline-driven environment on projects with complex needs. These conditions can lead to stress in team members. Know how and when to apply pressure and when to nurture staff members, resulting in high levels of effective communication, team member satisfaction, motivation, and project results, and leading to a highly functional and successful team.
Mentorship: Mentor the technical staff and teach them the correct processes. Come prepared to maximize the effectiveness of time spent with your team, and keep timeliness in mind so that you act immediately when the situation demands it.
Management: Break down complex projects into smaller tasks, plan, schedule, budget, and mitigate risk to successfully deliver work both for clients and internally for TEECOM. Delegate tasks to the most appropriate resource that allows for the efficient execution of the work while challenging staff and allowing them to grow.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities Learn the building design process and the pursuit process
Lead fee development, Professional Services Agreement (PSA) and Add Service Agreement (ASA) development, and project interview coordination
Prep and attend pursuit interviews
Lead fee negotiations with client
Follow up on open pursuits
Foster client relationships and fellow design team members and ensures all contact information and important discussions are documented in TEECOM’s CRM
Ask clients about other current or upcoming projects
Develop additional business with client
Attend client and/or industry events
Lead projects and manage teams/contractors
Translate a client’s IT vision into a scope, schedule, and budget
Serve as the interface between the client’s IT and Facilities staff and the integrators and contractors
Manage expectations with vendors and engineering staff
Oversee the design and implementation of IT infrastructure and networks
Document processes unique to the client; track decisions, project expenses, and schedule
Travel around the U.S. visiting various client sites and overseeing implementation
Attend or schedule client, construction, or design team meetings to gather or disseminate project requirements as it relates to technology (telecom, security, audiovisual, network)
Manage project communications and information related to technology
Track and manage all design decisions via design decision log
Develop and track projects using MS Project, Primavera, and Asana
Coordinate all technology implementation dates with clients, vendors, and construction team
Coordinate, track, and manage all network equipment / owner furnished contractor installed (OFCI) equipment (desktop, network, Wifi, printers) as it relates to technology deployment
Track installation of all contractor furnished contractor installed (CFCI) equipment (cabling, audiovisual, DAS) as it relates to technology
Track and manage the technology design to meet project requirements
Provide project master site schedule for major milestones (program, BOM, ROM, room ready, etc.)
Procurement support (write RFP, BOM development, procurement management, quote review, delivery tracking)
Develop and manage network patching matrices
Coordinate move information between IT telecom and Facilities
Communicate project status to IT owners from site-ready to go-live
Provide project documentation to IT owners upon project completion
Coordinate review of lessons learned upon project completion
Provide weekly project status reporting to client
Complete financial reconciliation (quotes vs. ROM) if requested
Assist with recruiting efforts and the candidate experience
Regularly document, update, and maintain team-related processes, workflows, and best practices. Actively initiate and participate in discussions about project challenges, process improvements, and other topics that enhance internal documentation and contribute to the team’s success and collaboration
Perform other work related duties as assigned
Ensure timesheets/expenses/billing/invoices are accurate
Achieve billed revenue target each quarter
Identify, prepare, and secure authorization for Additional Services Agreement (ASA) when scope of the project deviates from the Professional Services Agreement (PSA)
Meet project budgets and positively contribute to profitability
Ensure that all client and design team due dates, submission dates, and completion dates are met
What Success in this Role Looks Like Established as an internal mentor and guides less senior staff
Manage successful internal project team (on time, on budget, positive client feedback)
Gain repeat clients
Quarterly reviews are completed on schedule
Utilization equals 85%
Average hours worked is between 40 and 50 hours per week
Achieve goals from the Performance Plan each quarter
Accounts Receivable (AR) over 90 days is less than 10% of the total AR
Project stale dates are less than 3% in Vision
Actively engage with GitHub repositories, Callback One, Design Decision Logs, and other pertinent platforms by consistently contributing valuable documentation and participating in discussions to enhance internal documentation and team collaboration.
Experience Education/Degree/Major: Bachelors (business administration or construction management preferred) or equivalent experience
Minimum of ten years experience in discipline (telecom, security, audiovisual, acoustics, Wi-Fi, network) design for facilities construction projects
Minimum of ten years experience with project management software
Minimum of ten years in a consulting role
Bluebeam Studio
Microsoft Office 365 Suite
G Suite
Asana
Certifications Project Management Professional (PMP) required
Other industry certifications (RCDD, CPP, CDT, CTS-D, PSP, etc.) are a plus
$100,000 - $180,000 a year This compensation will vary depending on your role-related skills, experience, knowledge, and subject matter expertise. TEECOM is committed to making sure that we are the right fit for each applicant and that each applicant is the right fit for our team. As we get to know each other throughout the interview process, the compensation may vary within the stated range.
TEECOM offers a comprehensive benefits package to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents, basic and voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan with profit-sharing contributions, paid parental leave, lifestyle and legal benefits, pet benefits, and performance-based bonuses. Full-time exempt team members also enjoy flexible time off, and all employees receive nine scheduled paid holidays. Your level will be evaluated and determined during the interview process. Please submit your resume and a cover letter.
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES: Please note that TEECOM does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, TEECOM will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, TEECOM explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of TEECOM. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.