Diversified Services Inc jobs in Richmond, VA - 3 jobs

How You'll Contribute: As a Senior Project Manager in Electronic Security Systems (ESS), you oversee all aspects of project execution-including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client satisfaction-across the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to closure. You are accountable for the successful delivery of large-scale, complex ESS projects, requiring effective delegation, diligent follow-through, and assurance of key deliverables. Your role centers on harnessing subject matter expertise, driving decision-making, and aligning cross-functional teams, all while maintaining clear and impactful communication with stakeholders and executive leadership. The Sr PM is responsible for overseeing and performing project management functions with respect to cost, quality and schedule. The Sr PM will act as the person responsible on their assigned projects and have direct control over all project management activities. This position provides oversight and direction to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. As a primary interface to the client, the Sr. Project Manager develops a strong long-term relationship - managing the client relationship, including expectations, communications and satisfaction. *** Location: Must live in or commute to the Milwaukee, WI area. What You'll Do: Daily activities include: Leads the delivery of physical security systems by managing implementation, coordinating teams, and ensuring compliance with specifications, timelines, and quality standards. Demonstrates expertise in the delivery and integration of physical security technologies, including closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems, electronic access control systems, intrusion detection alarms, and perimeter security solutions. Must possess a strong understanding of general construction sequencing and its impact on project scheduling, risk mitigation, and potential delays. Responsible for identifying, qualifying, and quantifying construction-related risks, and communicating those risks clearly and effectively to the stakeholders in written form to support proactive planning and resolution. Collaborates in design reviews to support accurate and comprehensive field documentation across project teams. Demonstrated proficiency in developing schedules, establishing project baselines, and identifying, qualifying, and quantifying deviations, with clear communication of impacts to the client. Responsible for coordinating field verification of prospective work sites, ensuring compliance with quality control requirements, confirming readiness, and documenting site conditions. Demonstrates a strong ability to monitor and control the financial health of projects, including tracking budgets, costs, and margins. Proactively identifies financial risks and implements corrective actions to prevent margin erosion, ensuring profitability and alignment with financial targets. Proactively identifies potential customer concerns and addresses them before they escalate into issues. Delivers thoughtful, comprehensive solutions to both clients and internal stakeholders, fostering trust and ensuring a smooth project experience. Provides flexible, on-demand support to team members, proactively assisting with tasks, problem-solving, and resource coordination to help ensure project success and team efficiency. Demonstrates a collaborative mindset and a willingness to step in wherever needed to keep work progressing and goals on track. Partners with the site supervisor to establish and drive the project's work plan and schedule, ensuring alignment with overall project goals and timelines. Coordinates stakeholder activities to enable system programming and final checkout of systems. Requires proven experience in coordinating all critical activities involved in the successful commissioning of security systems, including planning, execution, testing, and documentation. The candidate must ensure systems are fully operational, meet design specifications, and are ready for client handover. Works closely with the site supervisor, general contractor, and end user to develop and manage a comprehensive punch list of outstanding tasks following substantial completion. Ensures timely resolution of remaining items to support project closeout and client satisfaction. Facilitates project turnover and training sessions with clients, and service team. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that may be met by an employee. The employee may be exposed to construction site conditions on a regular basis. Employees will be responsible for their safety while on job sites and to comply with all safety regulations in place by the GC. Use of PPE is usually required on job sites. The environment may include hospital and medical facilities. The employee can typically spend at least 40% of their time on their feet and be required to mobile around the construction site. The employee must have the ability to occasionally climb ladders, use stairs and lift and/or move materials up to 20 pounds in construction areas. The individual is regularly required to use keyboards, test equipment and controls required for SI installation projects. Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth vision. When not on construction sites, the employee will experience normal office conditions and be required to use office equipment such as computers, peripherals, etc. Travel: Frequent travel by car and occasional airplane trips are required. Employees must possess a valid driver's license in their state of residence. This will be evaluated based on strength of the candidate. Local travel to client sites (within a 2-hour driving distance each way) will make up 70-90% usually. Less than 10% remote travel is required on a regular basis. What You'll Bring: Education & Certifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Required Skills/Qualifications: 5+ years of Project Management experience in commercial construction trades and settings or experience with Electronic Security Systems (ESS) Proven ability to follow repeatable processes and participate in Constant Process Improvement (CPI) to iterate and improve workflows and best practices. Experience driving and delivering waterfall schedules to a fixed delivery date while monitoring and controlling projects to ensure required quality standards and profitability. Strong technical abilities and the demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly. Experience in a client-facing role, with a demonstrated pleasant professional demeanor. Experience working with or working for Enterprise level clients. An understanding of when and how to implement Agile methodologies within a waterfall program such they leverage speed yet are contained to avoid schedule risks. A solid understanding of PMP methodologies and best practices Travel up to 25% of the time is required Must possess a valid driver's license in their state of residence. Preferred Skills/Qualifications: Project Management experience with large, complex technical projects within an at-scale program Experience with Electronic Security Systems (ESS) Certified Security Project Manager - CSPM PMP certification from the Project Management Institute preferred

How You'll Contribute: The Senior ESS (Electronic Security) Installation Technician is responsible for performing a wide variety of installation duties on technology projects for our clients. This position is the key field position for the bulk of the actual work that gets done in our clients' buildings. The install tech needs to coordinate with project management, field superintendents and others to fully understand their role on specific projects. They interpret our drawing packages to create the basis of the finished systems. The installation can include rack and enclosure build outs, panel terminations, device installation, testing and troubleshooting. The Senior Tech will be responsible for our most complex system designs, will mentor other technicians and set an example in all aspects of the job. What You'll Do: You will be expected to know and learn what is on the BOM for every job and know the material required for your job. Maintain timeline of job schedule with regards to when devices/head end work needs to be installed and terminated. If you are not able to maintain a given timeline, it is expected for you to communicate that with the site supervisor ASAP. Take ownership of job schedules for workload given to you. Prioritize your time properly and be able to manage multiple tasks at any given time. Maintain constant communication with the Site Supervisor on a daily basis. Point out any/all problems found on drawings/matrix to Site Supervisor ASAP. Communicate with Site Supervisor ASAP if equipment is missing/defective. Getting replacement inventory may be delayed due to lead times, hence it is very important to notify to appropriate party ASAP. Help Site Supervisor with inventory if and when needed (maintain an online copy on one note) Keep written records of the following on One Note: Work accomplished with technicians/trades (sub-contractors, GC, EC) Project issues Discuss problems that may arise Site Readiness Document Site Inventory (kept up to date, at minimum, on a monthly basis) Redlines/RFIs (if required) Communicate the need for assistance and guidance for any work that is required for the job. This may include labor problems as well as technical issues. Assist installation technicians on questions or concerns with installation of devices/head end work to be done. Complexity: This level of technician will be responsible for performing tasks on clients' job sites with no supervision. This position is responsible for coordination with clients, contractors and subcontractors. This position will be the key and only senior field supervisor in many situations and will be responsible for delegating work, monitoring others work and communicating with key stakeholders on behalf of the PM. This position requires the highest level of technical and people skills. Decision Making Authority: This position is often alone on the job sites and requires good judgement about decisions that need to be made. In general, the project manager and a site supervisor are available to answer questions. This position is independent and will need to make onsite decisions on behalf of the PM. This position requires good diplomacy in working with our clients and other key stakeholders on the job sites. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that may be met by an employee. The employee may be exposed to construction site conditions on a regular basis. Employees will be responsible for their safety while on job sites and to comply with all safety regulations in place by the GC. Use of PPE is usually required on job sites. The employee can typically spend at least 50% of their time on their feet and be required to mobile around the construction site. The employee must have the ability to occasionally climb ladders, use stairs and lift and/or move materials up to 40 pounds in construction areas. The individual is regularly required to use keyboards, test equipment and controls required for SI installation projects. Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth vision. When not on construction sites, the employee will experience normal office conditions and be required to use office equipment such as computers, peripherals, etc. Travel: this is an installation tech role supporting a major, long-term project in Boydton VA. It is 100% onsite. If you don't reside in the local area, travel/ lodging expenses will be reimbursed per Diversified' s Travel & Expense Policy. Employee must possess a valid driver's license in their state of residence. Employee will be required to use their own vehicle and will be reimbursed for mileage at the current corporate rate. Safety: Maintain and wear appropriate PPE as the job and tasks require it Ensure hazards are addressed and rectified in a timely manner What You'll Bring: Education & Certifications: High school or GED equivalent. Required Skills/Qualifications: 2+ years of hands-on, recent experience installing access control and video surveillance cameras in a large-scale commercial environment, preferably to include data centers and new construction. Lenel experience/ certification preferred Must have the ability to understand access control/CCTV systems, install anything ACS, CCTV, intercom related, and troubleshoot and fix any problems that may arise during the installation process. Administrative capabilities to keep up with day-to-day requirements of every project. This includes: Proficiency with the following software: Teams, Outlook, OneNote, BlueBeam, Adobe Reader Knowledge of the following document types: Project drawings, Programming Matrix, SRDs, UILs, Job Hazard Analysis (JHAs), Task Hazard Analysis (THAs), Risk Hazard Analysis (RHAs), RFIs, Redlines Must be able to review and understand the following: Matrix Drawings, BOM Lists, SRDs Must be able to maintain the schedule given for the job and follow DIV28 specifications for quality control.