Senior Project Planner/ Scheduler

At Universal Creative, we design, develop, and deliver the most compelling entertainment experiences imaginable. Our Facilities and Construction roles manage creative design decisions, ensure constructability, and oversee project budgets and schedules to bring our projects to life. We empower our team to provide positive vendor management, innovative engineering and design direction, and strong hands-on field supervision.

This is a fixed-term contract role until May 2029. The incumbent will be responsible for developing, establishing, and integrating comprehensive project plans and schedules throughout the project’s lifecycle. Responsible for initiating, integrating, monitoring and statusing internal and/or external project schedules into a comprehensive program or integrated project master schedule. This includes providing project controls advisements and progress analysis for senior management decision making as well as tracking current and future resources and production progress based on the Integrated Master Schedule. Scope of planning and scheduling responsibilities include development/establishment of project schedules, show/ride concept development, show, ride, facility, area development designs, building construction, show/ride production, installation, and commissioning stages.

• Prepares project life cycle and project master schedules and statuses the project schedules utilizing Primavera software. Develops comprehensive plans and schedules from multiple discipline drawings and specifications. Prepares project plans and works with scoping/strategy documents to develop integrated project master schedules. Prepares schedule contract milestones for bid packages.

• Provides project team with Schedule guidance during all phases of the project. Coordinates with estimating/finance teams to develop appropriate level of detail scope definition and durations for schedule activities to support project monitoring and project controls reporting needs. Coordinates with contractors, vendors, and responsible project team members to develop and integrate activity durations and logic sequences required to perform project work. Integrates project schedule input from all internal and external project organizations.

• Leads planning and coordination meetings as required to support planning and monitoring functions. Collects/reports progress, evaluates progress variances, develops work-around plans, and coordinates resolution of variances. Conducts resource loading/resource analysis and develops and statuses earned value tracking tools and progress curves as required. Produces reports as required to support project team and leadership reporting. Frequently communicates, reports, and interacts with project and core team members including vendors and outside consultants on complex topics.

• Contributes to highly effective project control tools and reports and provides insightful analysis that contributes to schedule certainty.

• Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UDX policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities. 

• Performs other duties as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities (KSAs) required.

• Proven prior project controls leadership, supervisory experience required.

• 5+ years of primavera scheduling experience required.

• Possess strong understanding of design and construction progress measurement.

• Solid understanding of practical project controls applications and earned value measurement.

• Solid working knowledge of theme parks, show/ride product lines and design and construction is preferred.

• Working knowledge of architectural/engineering and show and ride design and production is preferred.

Desired Characteristics: 

• Solid meeting leadership, facilitation, and alignment skills.

• Solid communication, collaboration, technical writing, and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to successfully influence and guide a team.

• Ability to negotiate schedule changes with vendors and contractors.

• Basic conflict resolution skills.

• Knowledge of planning techniques.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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