COMPLETE Assistant Project Manager-Project Hire - Glendale, CA, USA

Job Posting Title:

Assistant Project Manager-Project Hire

Req ID:

10065770

Job Description:

About the Role & Team - Responsible for tactical project management of small projects from Blue Sky to close out. Regularly works with creative, technical, engineering, construction, and operations teams in the delivery of facility, ride and show design and systems throughout the life of the project. Frontline manager responsible for the integration of all project work, monitoring the budget, and ensuring that the delivery schedule is met. If selected for this role, you will report to (Senior, Principal or Executive Project Manager). This is a long-term project hire role.

You Will:

On any given day, what you will do as an Assistant, Project Manager, you might:

Primary Duties:

• Accountable for fiscal and schedule performance of a small project or assist in leading the scope for a medium to large project

• Assist with the identification, impact assessment, and disposition of project changes and risks

• Ensure alignment of scope to both budget and schedule

• Present project status, risks, opportunities, and issues for partner concern to Senior Leadership

• Produce and quality check routine and ad hoc reporting

• Participate in developing Capital Authorization Requests

• Lead development of the Program Book

• Understand project scoping documents, deliverables, and plans

• Lead development of project scope and ensure schedule and budget are appropriately quantified

• Assist in development of the project delivery strategy on small scopes of work

• Assist in determining mitigations for variances to project plan and required corrective actions

• Assist with the development of project resource plans

• Collaborate with internal and external organizations including project team, creative and design studios, operations, municipalities, vendors, and contractors

• Support preparation of contract documents for bid packages

• Ensure the implementation of the coordinated input matrix and track project deliverables

• Collect, assemble, quality check, and produce project documentation related to PM activities and ensure the overall project documentation program is implemented

• Understand project workflows, design inputs and outputs, and project sequencing relationships

• Participate in the identification and assessment of project risk and contingency determinations, engage project core team on understanding and developing mitigation strategies

• Support the project turnover processes including collecting and submitting turnover deliverables, documenting project lessons learned and standard process

Required Qualifications & Skills - Experience:

• At least 2 years relevant experience

• Themed entertainment experience preferred

• High-End Hospitality/Resort or complex integrated facility experience preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to think tactically and apply basic problem solving skills

• Demonstrate basic leadership and empathy skills, and partnering ability

• Meeting leadership, facilitation, basic conflict resolution, and alignment skills

• Good communication, collaboration, technical writing, and interpersonal skills

• Knowledge of design, production, and/or construction

• Understanding of the relationship between scope, cost, and schedule and implications of the impact of one to the other

• Understanding of contract administration, contract management, legal and commercial terms, and basic negotiation skills

• Understand basic design drawings

• Understand of baseline plans and change management

• Knowledge of themed entertainment and Disney preferred

• Basic stress tolerance

​Education:

• 4-year undergraduate degree, preferably in a WDI core technical field such as engineering, architecture, construction management, or equivalent work experience in project management

Benefits and Perks:

Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities, and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $90,500.00 to $124,400.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment:

Walt Disney Imagineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

WDI Business Ops, Design & Delivery

Primary Job Posting Category:

Project/Program Management Generalist

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Glendale, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2023-10-17