AVL Project Manager

About This Role

This project management role is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Audio, Visual, and Lighting (AVL) systems across major entertainment, cultural, and mixed-use developments. The AVL Project Manager will lead the planning, coordination, design management, installation, integration, testing, commissioning, and handover of complex AVL packages, ensuring alignment with project objectives, technical requirements, programme milestones, budget constraints, and operational needs. The role requires a strong combination of technical AVL expertise, project management capability, stakeholder management skills, and construction delivery experience to successfully deliver world-class entertainment and immersive technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full lifecycle delivery of AVL packages from design development through procurement, installation, commissioning, operational readiness, and final handover
• Manage AVL package scope, programme, budget, risk, quality, and resource requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Develop, maintain, and monitor AVL delivery programmes, ensuring alignment with overall project milestones and construction schedules
• Act as the primary technical authority and client representative for all AVL-related matters across the project
• Manage and coordinate AVL design consultants, installation contractors, specialist suppliers, and system integrators
• Review and oversee AVL design deliverables, technical submittals, shop drawings, equipment schedules, system schematics, and specifications
• Coordinate AVL systems with architectural, structural, MEP, IT, networking, BMS, and show control disciplines to ensure seamless integration across all interfaces
• Identify design, construction, commissioning, and operational risks, proactively developing mitigation strategies and driving issue resolution
• Oversee AVL installation activities on site, ensuring works are delivered in accordance with approved designs, quality standards, project specifications, and programme requirements
• Monitor contractor performance, installation progress, workforce productivity, and resource allocation, implementing corrective actions where required
• Coordinate AVL activities with the wider construction team to manage interfaces and minimise programme impacts
• Lead Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), integrated systems testing, commissioning activities, and operational readiness reviews
• Oversee the preparation and review of operation and maintenance manuals, as-built documentation, training materials, and handover records
• Manage project documentation including submittal logs, design registers, RFIs, quality records, commissioning documentation, risk registers, and project trackers
• Ensure compliance with project quality standards through inspections, testing programmes, defect management, snagging, and close-out activities