Audio Visual Design Engineer
We are currently seeking an experienced Audio Visual Design Engineer to partner with our Account Managers by providing pre-sales consultation and solution design for Audio Visual solutions to local and regional corporate accounts. Become a part of a growing and dynamic company that offers the utmost in customer service and satisfaction.
What You'll Do:
- Support account managers during customer discovery meetings, site surveys, and presentations.
- Develop AV solutions, budgets, BOMs, and technical proposals based on customer requirements.
- Present technical solutions and recommendations to customers, consultants, and stakeholders.
- Conceptualize audio visual system designs and determine system requirements.
- Assist with proposal development, scope creation, and technical responses to customer requests.
- Identify technical risks, scope gaps, and value-engineering opportunities.
- Provide technical expertise and coordination information to support the architecture, installation and planning of audio, video, and control solutions.
- Work directly with clients and project team to develop budgets, timelines, and managing expectations.
- Coordinate project handoff meetings with operations and project management teams.
- Work closely with the DataVox sales team, operations team, other design engineers, and manufacturers.
- Maintain expertise on emerging AV, UC, collaboration, and workplace technologies.
- Maintain professional work appearance and outstanding customer interaction.
What You Need:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
- 2 to 5+ years' experience with Audio Visual system design
- Strong customer-facing and presentation skills
- Experience supporting consultative technology sales
- Experience developing AV budgets, BOMs, and proposals
- Experience responding to RFPs and bid requests
- Understanding of the AV project lifecycle from discovery through project completion
- AVIXACTS Certification preferred, CTS-D or CTS-I a plus
- Understanding of control system products and applications (Crestron/Extron/QSC/AMX, etc.)
- Manufacturer certifications (Crestron/Extron/QSC/AMX/BiAmp/Shure/Audinate, etc.)
- Ability to read architectural and construction drawings
- Experience in estimating labor
- A team player with a high degree of self-motivation
- Professional and personable demeanor with good written/verbal communication skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Excel
- Experience with web conferencing platforms (Teams/ZOOM/WebEx, etc.)
- Familiarity with Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms, Cisco Collaboration solutions, and enterprise AV technologies
- Experience with Digital Signage a plus
- Experience with D-Tools a plus
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that may be met by an employee. Work will normally be performed within normal office conditions and/or home office depending on location of the SE. On rare occasions the employee may be exposed to construction site conditions. Employee will be responsible for their safety while on job sites and to comply with all safety regulations in place by the General Contractor. 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 individual is regularly required to use keyboards, test equipment and controls. Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth vision.
Travel:
Occasional travel by car and occasional airplane trips are required. Employee must possess a valid driver's license in their state of Texas. Employee will be required to use their own vehicle and will be reimbursed for mileage at the current IRS rate. Local travel to job sites (within a 2-hour driving distance each way) will make up 90% usually but remote travel can be up to 30% of the job at times.
