Staff Project Controls Planner (Contract)

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• Develop highly integrated project life cycle and production schedules
• Lead discipline planning for creative, show, ride, facility, area development, test and adjust
• Develop project phasing plans
• Work with suppliers and subcontractor to influence schedule plans, mitigations, and acceleration
• Develop fragnet schedules and specialty reports as needed to focus on critical items and align team to progress requirements
• Develop and implements integrated input matrix
• Plan and analyzes project resource requirements with consideration to advanced implications such as shift work, interdependencies, holiday calendars and seasonal productivity variation
• Lead planning and coordination meetings
• Understand direct and indirect project sequencing relationships including typical workarounds to standard relationships and associated risks

• Discipline level controls for complex projects or area controls for complex projects (Complex attractions, area development for highly themed land, logistically complicated delivery, etc).
• Participate in the identification of risks, assessment the likelihood of occurrence, quantification of impacts, development of mitigation plans, and establishment contingency or plans necessary to produce reliable project cost and schedule projection. Develops tools that help the project team understand the risk and the current status.

• Provide input or recommendations for casting decisions, as requested by senior leadership, including participating in the interviewing process
• Ability to supervise, mentor, and train Associate and Staff Project Controls Specialists
• Ability to direct outside consultants Project Controls staff
• Participate in performance assessment and feedback
• Provide leadership for interns, associates, staff, and outside consultants as needed. Generally serves as a SME providing indirect leadership and coaching to staff. Position may supervise up to six peopledepending on project variables.
• Serve as a SME and contributes knowledge to team through training and sharing lessons learned.
• Participates in development initiatives or committees. Collaborates with other disciplines and external organizations. Serves as an informal mentor.

• Routine day to day decision making authority on Project Controls issues with moderate impacts to project delivery plan (and through consultation with Project Management). For complex items or items with a significant commercial, staffing, or schedule impact, works with principal, lead, or functional leaders in decision making.
• Self-starter that works under minimal supervision and actively seeks out guidance, as required, from principal or lead staff to efficiently conduct job duties. Requires supervisory guidance for complex problem solving.
• Frequent communication, reporting, and interactions with project and studio team members including vendors and outside consultants on complex topics. Fosters collaboration across various stakeholders to develop integrated and fully supported Project Controls plans, strategies, mitigations, and forecasts.
• Contributes in project leadership meetings and serves a trusted source of information and reliable analysis to project and studio leadership. Able to summarize communications for management or executive presentations.
• Able to generally influence commercial and schedule decisions through clear identification of critical issues and drivers, thoughtful analysis, change management, and risk assessment. Works with suppliers and subcontractor to influence schedule plans, mitigations, and acceleration and supports negotiation of project change orders.

• 4 year undergraduate degree, preferably in a technical field such as engineering, architecture, construction management, or equivalent work experience in planning
• Discipline related professional certification or industry relevant continuing education desirable
• Minimum five years in engineering/manufacturing/construction (non-residential) or six years major theatrical production experience
• Minimum one year supervisory experience
• Themed entertainment experience preferred
• Minimum five years CPM scheduling experience
• Confident speaker, Able to speak in front of large groups

• Under minimal supervision, can perform all the duties of a Staff Project Controls Planner, and, in addition, will perform the following general duties and planning/scheduling:
• Develop and implements the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Anticipate key indicators and proactively develops management and control reports to communicate
• Develop and analyzes mitigations for variances to plan
• Read and interpret design drawings
• With project team, develop project strategies, risk mitigations, and recovery/acceleration plans
• Develop project scoping documents, basis of estimate /schedule, strategy, and risk documents
• Manage the implementation of Earned Value (EV) system and analyzes implications of performance against EV
• Prepare contract documents for bid packages for Project Controls including controls andreporting specifications, milestones, and budgets
• Contribute knowledge to team to training and lessons learned
• Manage interns and staff as required