SYSTEM DESIGN MANAGER
If you are a brilliant Systems Designer, then you already know you may as well be a unicorn. You’re that rare creature who’s been around long enough to have seen it all, yet still have a youthful, insatiable appetite for learning the latest and greatest technology and memorizing the entire catalog of, well, the entire industry. You’re the ultimate A/V, lighting, shading and automation GEEK and can’t imagine not being involved in a project from the earliest design phase. You’re also trilingual, of course. Meaning: you speak both “client” and “sales” fluently and know how to translate it all into design and budget poetry.
If this is you, and you’ve only stopped thinking up the next crazy feat of engineering in order to read this job posting, and know you can prove the difference between formulaic, expected thinking and true artistry, then we want you on Team Cantara.
Essential Job Function
Our System Design Manager should technically be the smartest person in our company, and preferably on the whole jobsite. You’ll be our mastermind, turning 60-minute meetings into room-by-room, part-by-part plans of attack.
Duties & Responsibilities
In compliance with Company policies, procedures, standards, guidelines as well as applicable federal, state, and local law, codes and regulations, the Systems Design Manager shall:
Maintain excellent customer relations
Lead company design philosophy and standards, as well as create and communicate specific project plans
Interface with Vendor Sales / Specifier
Interface with Clients
Be the ultimate, reliable, efficient knowledge base on Product Specification
Create Executive Summaries (SOW’s)
Facilitate pre-contract drawings
Create line-item proposals
Oversee all changes of scope (via Change Orders)
Provide detailed oversight of probable cost documents
Create pre-contract floorplans
Provide specialty budgeting or other pre-contract documents necessary
Approve project completion
Design contract management and fulfillment
Brilliantly document a complete project & all associated data
Track and stay in integrity with personal goals
Work effectively and provide feedback to supervisors where improvements could be made
Manage time, tasks, responsibilities with intention and ease
Delegate responsibly and as needed, with clarity, authority and respect
Experience / Education / Licensure
High School diploma required, Bachelor’s Degree desired
Valid California driver’s license and auto insurance
Held similar position for at least 2 years, if not 10
Literacy in Apple OSX, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Familiarity with Apple and Microsoft operating systems and their mobile counterparts
Expert knowledge of audio/video and control system devices
Highly organized individual
Aptitude for understanding and assisting others with technology
Advanced knowledge of manufacturers and their product offerings throughout the industry, ideally with established relationships already
Work Environment
Job duties are performed in the Company’s offices/warehouse as well as various jobsite locations throughout Southern California.
Physical Requirements
Ability to safely:
Operate a motor vehicle
Stand or walk 30% and sit 70% of the time
Lift and carry up to 30 lbs for a distance of up to 30 feet
Visually distinguish between different colors
Detect and retrieve messages over the phone
Bend, reach and retrieve filing
Working at desk using computer (typing and mousing) 60% of the time; roll, unroll, and move blueprints weighing up to 10 lbs. 10% of the time
Work Schedule
40 to 50 hours per week as required to maintain projects with a favorable outcome. Weekends and after hours meetings may be required by clients or other trades.