Project Mgr Princ
The Walt Disney Company
**Overview:**
**Lead large projects, complex E-ticket attractions, or portfolios of smaller projects with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, integration, documentation, safety, & quality! This is a STAFF based role in Glendale, California and will report to the Project Executive within the Imagineering Portfolio.**
**What you will do:**
**Job Scope:**
**Develop the project delivery strategy, ensure team understanding, and lead the team in delivering in accordance with the defined strategies; periodically reassess strategies for effectiveness and change course when needed**
**Establish a project culture of proactive change and risk management in addition to leading the implementation, and ensuring the health of these programs**
**Own the project in advanced problem solving and reaching balanced, timely decisions with incomplete or unclear information in a manner that ensures team buy in**
**Understand advanced project sequencing and integration relationships, provoke discussions that lead to identifying efficiency gains, and contribute to innovative solutions**
**Optimally handle project contingency, authorize its use, and identify the opportunity to reduce cost throughout the project lifecycle to return funds to contingency**
**Lead negotiations for contracts, project changes, and claims**
**Deliver succinct, highly effective presentations and recommendations to executive management including team preparation**
**Reconcile complicated agendas, influence outcomes, work towards results, and provide focus and structure to teams to optimize project performance**
**Demonstrate good situational awareness and use basic emotional intelligence to positively influence outcomes**
**Supervise other project managers, resolve staffing requirements, and conduct performance evaluations**
**Conduct independent project health checks**
**Leverage lessons learned and standard methodologies to increase project efficiency, reduce risk, and educate the team**
**Core Attributes:**
**Possess a sophisticated understanding of project estimates, including the basis of estimate, assumptions, exclusions, and risks; help to identify estimate gaps; understand trade-offs in factors that impact the estimate and knock-on effects; align the team in understanding and delivering within the baseline parameters**
**Possess a sophisticated understanding of project schedules from development through completion of the project. Align the team in understanding and delivering within the schedule baseline parameters. Must be a key driver in developing schedule risk mitigation strategies and understand the interdependencies of the schedule activities**
**We build impactful teams through leadership style, team design and chemistry, continuous alignment, clear communication of goals and action plans, decisiveness, and feedback on performance**
**Collaborate, build balanced cross-functional relationships, and provide leadership to internal and external organizations including project team, design studios, operations, municipalities, vendors, contractors, and local site representatives**
**We act as an agent for change and continuous improvement; champion knowledge sharing to the team and Walt Disney Imagineering PM community including training and lessons learned**
**We serve as a trainer and develop training material, including functional standards, guidelines, best practices, and templates**
**Recruit, evaluate, and develop talent**
**Technical Skills:**
**4 year undergraduate degree, preferably in a technical field such as engineering, architecture, construction management, or 8 years equivalent work experience. Continuing education and studies at the post graduate level (i.e. MBA or Master’s degree in applicable field) desirable.**
**Specialized Skills:**
**Ability to manage through conflict, and complexity and to problem-solve issues to resolution**
**Highly adaptable; able to change direction frequently without losing effectiveness or demonstrating distress**
**Strong decision-making and work towards results**
**Critical and strategic thinking skills**
**Executive partnering skills**
**Situational awareness and a basic command of emotional intelligence**
**Displays cultural sensitivity and maintains effectiveness globally**
**High-stress tolerance and able to help diffuse team stress**
**Highly effective delegator**
**Talent recruiting and development skills**
**Experience:**
**Minimum of 10 years of validated experience**
**Significant experience in all phases of project delivery from conceptual through close-out**
**Minimum five years of direct supervisory experience**
**Significant contract administration and claims management experience**
**Themed entertainment experience preferred**
**Experience working in international settings, including communication through the use of interpreters, preferred**
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $163,500.00 to $219,200.00 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 15% 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 ID:** 10099793
**Location:** Glendale,California
**Job Posting Company:** Walt Disney Imagineering
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