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We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
What you get to do:
Develop the delivery strategy for all attractions and major capital projects for United Parks and Resorts while ensuring the excellence of project planning, scheduling, controls processes and reporting. The position reports to the Senior Vice President Project Delivery and operates with autonomy to integrate all activities required to deliver a project from concept through opening to guests. Position must develop cohesive, efficient, and well thought out plan that anticipates risk, incorporates mitigations, and ensure there are no scope gaps. Candidate must possess Excellent communication skills, high emotional intelligence, the ability to read people and situations to adapt approach, and distill complex situations to simple, clear actions that influence results and solve problems are critical. Requires the ability to reach consensus by aligning parties with competing agendas to a commonly understood and agreed course of action.
Specific duties:
- Develop fully integrated project life cycle schedules using Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Work with architects, general contractors, and suppliers to optimize schedules and develop mitigation and acceleration plans as needed.
- Establish baseline schedules and key schedule pacing milestones, monitor deviations, analyze impacts, develop mitigations as required, and communicate results
- Lead advanced problem-solving sessions that result in balanced, timely decisions with incomplete or unclear information
- Analyze contractor claims, ascertain merit and value, and then negotiate to closure.
- Create easily understood graphics and reports that distill complex schedules and metrics
- Deliver succinct, highly effective presentations and recommendations to executive management
- Train and mentor D&E teams in aspects of planning, scheduling, and project controls
- Develop and share lessons learned and ensure understanding
What it takes to succeed:
A self-motivated, highly driven, technically skilled, intuitive, and strategic professional whose attributes include the following:
- Expert technical knowledge of CPM scheduling including forward and backward pass, float calculation and management, varying logic ties, resource loading, constraints, activity structuring, and target schedule variance analysis
- Thorough experiential knowledge of the activities, durations, and inter-relations associated with concept design, engineering and detail design, procurement and supply chain management, ride and show design and production, permitting, construction, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
- Ability to read shop and construction drawings.
- Excellent communication skills, high emotional intelligence, situational awareness with a highly adaptive approach, and ability to align parties with competing agendas to find common ground and consensus on course of action.
- Demonstrates superior meeting facilitation, presentation and collaboration skills
- Fluency with quantity surveying, earned value measurement, and productivity analysis.
- Understanding of budgeting, estimating, and different approaches for forecasting cost at completion
- Substantial experience in identification and management of risks associated with the above phases.
- Understanding of contracts and legal and commercial terms.
- Understanding of business drivers and how planning correlates to cost to make balanced decisions.
What else is important:
- Bachelor undergraduate degree preferably in technical field such as engineering or architecture
- 10 years relevant experience in complex, large projects
- 5 years supervisory experience
- Stress tolerance
- Significant themed entertainment experience strongly preferred
- Business travel
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!