POSITION OVERVIEW

Project Managers in the IKE Construction department work with cities and our internal development managers to plan and execute deployment of IKE Smart City kiosks into public right-of-way locations across the US. They have a broad set of responsibilities focused on maintaining the project plan and budget.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Pre-Construction

• Support new market processes, communications, and documentation.
• Budget assistance for cost-effective market deployment.
• Assists pre-construction team with planning, procurement, and forecasting.
• Helps identify, retain, and manage third-party contractors, including civil engineers and construction contractors.

Construction

• Maintain and update all market-specific details across multiple project management platforms.
• Spearheads IKE deployment in assigned markets with attention to maintaining the schedule/budget to meet forecasted goals.
• Execute plan review processes with the city, typically in the right-of-way space.
• Minimize construction costs by locating power from existing infrastructure and leveraging relationships with cities and quasi-city partner organizations.
• Address site-specific issues that occur during construction.
• Be on site and hands-on as required.
• Monitors market pipeline to ensure continuous market growth.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or Project Management, or a minimum of five-years professional experience in a related field.
• Tenacity to drive projects forward by creatively solving problems, bringing resources to bear, working through or around obstacles, and engaging key internal and external personnel. Self-driven and does not need to be told what to do.
• Treats obstacles as challenges to overcome to achieve success, rather than as reasons to fail. Conceives of and applies creative solutions to problems that block success. Focuses on solutions rather than problems.
• Stays on top of details and remains organized to ensure that the right people are doing the right things at the right times on multiple projects in multiple cities.
• Communicates well to make sure people have the right information to move projects forward, and lets stakeholders know when they need to act to head off problems.
• Highly organized with strong project-management skills. Able to juggle multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders. Strong attention to detail, especially in engineering, construction, and permitting documentation.
• Rolls with the punches – flexible and versatile to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience managing daily activity of engineering and/or construction teams, including reviewing construction documents.
• Experience in obtaining permits for commercial projects in metropolitan areas. Experience working with city departments, including Public Works, Building, Planning & Zoning.
• Experience coordinating with general contractors, including answering RFIs and conducting field visits.
• Ability to travel throughout the country as projects demand.

Company Overview

 
Orange Barrel Media (OBM) creates and operates iconic urban media displays that advertisers ask for by name in top U.S. markets. Since our founding in 2004, OBM has pioneered a community-oriented model of outdoor media development and is nationally recognized by cities and real estate owners alike seeking to implement premier media programs that add to the character of urban places. In the advertising community, OBM is widely recognized as the owner of the highest impact and most memorable advertising locations in the cities where it operates.

The OBM team is also a leader in smart city infrastructure, launching the Interactive Kiosk Experience (IKE) platform in concert with cities across the U.S. through the company IKE Smart City. IKE is a best-in-class public engagement platform that helps cities communicate with the public, enliven the pedestrian experience, and tell the story of their city. The core pillars of the IKE platform are public benefit and social equity, values that we seek to maximize in every IKE market to achieve city objectives and exceed community expectations.

We are a place where people are inspired to achieve success, genuinely like each other, and have endless opportunities to grow.

Learn more at www.obm.com and www.ikesmartcity.com.