Sr. Design Specialist
Role Summary
The Senior Design Specialist – Security Technology supports the planning, design, coordination, analysis, and execution of physical security technology initiatives across a large-scale enterprise environment. This senior-level role combines project coordination, design support, business intelligence, operational reporting, documentation management, and stakeholder engagement. The specialist transforms project, design, deployment, and operational data into actionable insights using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Quickbase, Excel, and SharePoint. This position partners with Security Technology, Facilities, Construction, Operations, Project Management, vendors, and external service providers to support successful deployments and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Support physical security technology projects throughout the project lifecycle, including discovery, scope development, design, implementation, and closeout.
- Coordinate project intake, prioritization, tracking, design reviews, project clarifications, and change requests.
- Facilitate communication among internal stakeholders, project teams, vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
- Support the development and maintenance of security technology design standards, best practices, and workflows.
- Organize, maintain, validate, and distribute project documentation, including floor plans, specifications, design drawings, bid packages, schedules, and project records.
- Manage document repositories, version control, documentation governance, and design package distribution.
- Enter, reconcile, audit, clean, standardize, and validate project and operational data across Excel, SharePoint, Quickbase, Lucernex, SiteOwl, AutoCAD, and related systems.
- Develop and enhance dashboards, scorecards, executive reports, and performance metrics using Power BI, Tableau, Excel, and other reporting platforms.
- Analyze project performance, deployment metrics, workload distribution, design volume, execution timelines, risks, issues, dependencies, and operational trends.
- Coordinate meetings, agendas, notes, action items, communications, calendars, workflows, and process improvement initiatives across cross-functional teams.
Qualifications
- Relevant education, training, certifications, or equivalent practical experience in business, information systems, engineering, construction management, project management, technology, or a related field.
- Five or more years of experience in project coordination, project operations, business analytics, security technology, construction technology, facilities support, or a related discipline.
- Experience managing large volumes of project documentation, data, and operational reporting.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365 applications.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing data and developing reports, dashboards, and performance metrics.
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Quickbase, SharePoint, Lucernex, SiteOwl, AutoCAD, or similar platforms.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain accurate project records.
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and data quality management abilities.
- Experience supporting physical security, security technology, facilities, construction, retail operations, technology deployment programs, enterprise-scale initiatives, or related projects is preferred.
Publishing Pay Range: $35.00 – $40.00 hourly
This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.
