AV Project Deployment Analyst

Role: AV Project Deployment Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: New York City (on-site)

Salary: $95,000 - $120,000 (depending on experience), plus benefits including: health, vision/dental insurance; disability, vacation, sickness, 401K, commuter benefits & employee assistance program

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm

Kinly is a unified global leader in collaboration, systems integration, and managed services. We focus on transforming workspaces, simplifying complexity, and empowering people.

With comprehensive capabilities, decades of experience, and expanded delivery teams, we empower global businesses to thrive in the hybrid world, and we are committed to driving a new era of inspiration and opportunity for our people, clients, and partners; one seamless experience at a time. 

We now have a new opportunity for a new colleague to join a team where collaboration and culture truly matter and where you will work in a highly team-oriented environment, partnering with colleague across the U.S. and other global regions, collaborating with a broad project team and external commissioning and installation partners while contributing to innovative technology deployments in our event and media spaces. 

Working as the AV Project Deployment Analyst you will deploy AV solutions to ensure a consistent user experience throughout our key client estate; collaborate with approved AV vendors to commission AV systems locally and in other regions, provide initial AV user training, manage the decommission and disposal of legacy AV equipment and provide support for the wider AV team for planning and procurement.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with clients and stakeholders to understand their business requirements and deliver AV solutions

• Collaborate with corporate real estate & other IT teams for project delivery

• Work with the approved AV vendors to produce AV drawings that include power, data and containment locations

• Co-ordinate tasks and activities to support requirements through the project delivery cycle working across IT, Testing, environment & release management 

• Handover new AV systems to the AV operations team

• Update the Asset Management system to include new AV equipment, equipment relocations and disposal

• Ensure quality, cost and project timelines are met

• Manage demand challenge process and business approvals.

• Represent Media services for Project Steerco meetings and work with teams assigned to deliver projects

Skills and experience:

Essential:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence decisions

• Ability to manage budgets and ensure delivery of projects is executed with value to the customer

• Ability to analyse project plans over multiple projects to find trends and process gaps

• Extensive knowledge of Audio Visual Technologies in a variety of applications and spaces including – Auditoriums, Meeting Rooms, Digital Content delivery

• Technical knowledge of MS Teams / Cisco Conferencing technologies

• Operational knowledge on Crestron, AMX & Extron control/switching technology

• Comprehensive knowledge on core network and telephony components, required to deploy AV.

• Able to communicate with non-tech customers, be trusted to influence customer decisions, and deliver a solution that is at both the individual level and the service level.

• Able to represent Media Services and collaborate effectively with colleagues outside immediate teams and departments with-in UK, AMER, EMEA & APAC

• Must be able to recognise how project delivery is part of the service lifecycle and believes in win-win.

• It is essential that the role holder has an overall understanding of the Media service and colleague requirements for the service to be able to deploy additions or changes to the service

Desirable:

• AV Certification like CTS/CVE/Cisco certifications is preferred

• PMP/ITIL certification will be preferred but not a mandatory qualification

• Experienced in designing and implementing AV solutions end to end

• Experienced in working in a corporate environment engaging with all levels of seniority

• Comprehension of technical schematics and construction documents (plan sets, symbols, Line Diagrams, Gantt charts)

• PRINCE2 Practitioner or expertise in other similar types of methodologies

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

If you do require details of the vacancy or the application process in an alternative format, please email jobs@kinly.com outlining your requirements.

Equal Opportunities:

Kinly is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, gender identity, pregnancy, colour, race, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religion or any other ‘protected characteristics. We welcome your application.