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Project Mgr Princ

Job ID 10099793 Location Glendale, California, United States Business Walt Disney Imagineering Date posted Dec. 11, 2024
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Job Summary:

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.

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About Walt Disney Imagineering:

Founded in 1952 as WED Enterprises to design and build the world’s first theme park — Disneyland — Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) is where imagination and creativity combine with cutting-edge technology to create unforgettable experiences. WDI is the creative force that imagines, designs and builds all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions and cruise ships worldwide. Imagineering’s unique strength comes from its diverse global team of creative and technical professionals, who build on Disney’s legacy of storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment. The Imagineers who practice this unique blend of art and science work in more than 100 disciplines to shepherd an idea all the way from “blue sky” concept phase to opening day.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc., which is part of a business we call Walt Disney Imagineering.

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