Senior Director, Project Controls

JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for the development of preparation, ongoing monitoring and controlling all aspects of a project control platform in order to enable project teams to deliver overall projects within the required cost, quality and schedule parameters.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the development and on-going improvement process associated with the overall Universal Creative project management system. Includes but not limited to chairing of meetings; review of potential systems; development of project procedures, flowcharts, and other information required to communicate the project procedural requirements to the potential system vendors.
• Develop and provide the ongoing improvement and maintenance of the overall Universal Creative project management “Project Process and Procedures” manual. Including but not limited to the development of clear, concise and very direct explanation of all the various aspects of project and construction management procedures; development of the charts, graphs and other supporting materials necessary to clearly convey the required processes and procedures; development of sample forms, letters and other tools needed to properly manage the execution of projects.
• Provide ongoing training, consultation and guidance to all of the vendors and project teams on all matters related to the ongoing project and construction management systems, processes, procedures and tasks.
• Provide the service of reviewing and approving all potential contractors’ and vendors’ pre-qualification forms (Vendor Qualification Process- “VQP”) for all non-Ride/Show contractors and vendors.
• Provide and manage the meetings, summaries and relationships with all of the vendors and contractors who we have entered into the preferred vendor status, including but not limited to development and ongoing maintenance of vendor/project dashboards for each vendor, maintenance of ongoing correspondence with the vendors, notification of potential requests for proposals to all vendors on projects, and all other required vendor support.
• Develop processes, procedures, format and other necessary elements needed to implement an efficient project post-mortem process, including but not limited to development of forms, dashboards, spreadsheets needed to clearly summarize the project, utilizing a variety of metrics; conducting interim reviews with the project team (minimum quarterly) to ensure successful and unsuccessful project elements are clearly identified in a timely manner; conducting overall project post-mortem on each individual project, utilizing a report template that will allow measurement of each project and more importantly, identify improvements; including the update the project policies and procedures manual, and other documentation to implement the improvements.
• Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Responsible for interactions and indirectly managing multiple project participants including but not limited to project directors, project managers, engineers, architects, accountants, schedulers, and field personnel on multiple projects at once. Professional Engineering, Architectural and Professional Project Management certification preferred.

SCOPE: In addition to perform this role successfully, this individual must be able to maintain solid, close professional working relationships with multiple outside contractors, architects, engineers and vendors that are involved in the development of our projects.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• PLANNING HORIZON: Describe the typical time frame within which the job plans work. Longer Term (5-10 years).
• PLANNING KNOWLEDGE: Describes the extent to which planning knowledge is required to perform the job. In-depth division operating plan; understanding overall Company goals.
• RESPONSIBILITY: Management of standard policies and procedures and facilitates work through direct supervision or project management.
• ACCOUNTABILITY: Divisional key performance indicators (Annual Operating Plan, GSAT, TSAT)
• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret construction drawings/specifications, technical drawings/specifications common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, schedules and legal documents. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry as well as basic accounting principles.
• REASONING ABILITY: Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or a related field is required.

EXPERIENCE: 10+ years of experience in the development and management of major projects with hospitality/entertainment/theme park experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. The planning horizon is five to ten years. Planning requires knowledge of in-depth division operating plans and understanding of overall Company goals. Responsible for management of standard policies and procedures within a major function and may coordinate work processes across divisions. Accountable for divisional key performance indicators (Annual Operating Plan, GSAT, TSAT).

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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