Senior Project Manager

About NIC Partners

• Initial Training: Minimum two (2) weeks onsite in Southern California at the start of employment. We'll cover travel and lodging and fly the candidate home on weekends.
• Ongoing: Periodic travel to Southern California as needed for unity meetings, leadership syncs, and key project milestones.

• 7+ years managing construction-style, low-voltage installation projects end-to-end.
• Comfortable running multiple concurrent projects, managing field crews and subcontractors, and owning P&L at the project level.
• Hands-on experience with estimating and scoping — able to walk a site, read drawings, and produce or validate a take-off.
• Prior SLED experience strongly preferred (school districts, community colleges, municipalities, county/state agencies). Familiarity with prevailing wage, DIR, DSA processes, bond-funded work, and public-sector procurement is a major plus.

• Cloud-based video surveillance systems (Verkada, Avigilon, Genetec, Eagle Eye, Rhombus, or similar)
• Structured network cabling — Cat 6/6A copper and fiber optic (single-mode and multi-mode), termination, testing, and certification
• Route/switch installation and configuration (Cisco, Meraki, Aruba, or comparable)
• Fiber infrastructure — backbone, OSP/ISP, splicing coordination
• Access control systems (Verkada, Genetec, Avigilon, LenelS2, Brivo, Openpath, or similar)
• Visitor management platforms (Raptor, Verkada Guest, HID, etc.)
• Environmental / IoT sensors (vape, sound, occupancy, air quality — Verkada, HALO, etc.)

• Strong proficiency with the Microsoft 365 suite — Project, Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint.
• Comfortable with construction PM platforms (Procore, Bluebeam, or similar) and estimating tools.

• Polished customer-facing communication — this PM will interface directly with district IT directors, facilities leads, GCs, and architects.
• Self-directed; able to operate from a Northern CA home base while staying tightly aligned with the Southern California leadership team.
• Valid CA driver's license, clean driving record, and ability to pass district background checks (LiveScan/fingerprinting).