Senior Project Planner/Scheduler - Universal Creative - UK Project

Comcast; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and entertainment company in the UK is seeking a Project Controls Manager to develop and manage comprehensive project plans throughout the lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Primavera and strong knowledge of theme park design and construction. This role involves significant coordination with various teams to ensure project success and effective resource management. Competitive benefits and a collaborative work environment are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven project controls leadership experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of theme parks and design/construction.
• Extensive scheduling experience with Primavera required.
• Solid understanding of earned value measurement.

Responsibilities

• Prepare project life cycle and master schedules using Primavera.
• Coordinate with teams to develop scope definition and durations.
• Report and evaluate progress, craft workaround plans.
• Develop project control tools and provide analysis.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Theme park design knowledge

Primavera software

Communication skills

Conflict resolution skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, or Construction Management

Tools

Primavera

Job description

Overview

Responsible for developing, establishing, and integrating comprehensive project plans and schedules throughout the project's lifecycle. Initiates, integrates, monitors and statuses internal and/or external project schedules into a comprehensive program or integrated project master schedule. Provides project controls advisements and progress analysis for senior management decision making and tracks current and future resources and production progress based on the Integrated Master Schedule. Scope includes development/establishment of project schedules, show/ride concept development, show, ride, facility, area development designs, building construction, show/ride production, installation, and commissioning stages.

Major responsibilities

• 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. (30%)
• 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 organisations. (30%)
• 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. (30%)
• Contributes to highly effective project control tools and reports and provides insightful analysis that contributes to schedule certainty. (10%)
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Proven prior project controls leadership, supervisory experience preferred.
• Solid working knowledge of theme parks, show/ride product lines and design and construction.
• Extensive Primavera scheduling experience required.
• Possess strong understanding of design and construction progress measurement.
• Working knowledge of architectural/engineering and show and ride design and production.
• Must be a well-organised self-starter with strong communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Solid understanding of practical project controls applications and earned value measurement.
• Ability to coordinate staff, consultants, and suppliers including setting goals, prioritisation of tasks, coordinating work, and managing time.
• 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.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Consistent attendance is a job requirement.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or an applicable field required. Advanced degrees preferred. Significant engineering/construction planning and scheduling experience required. Theme park planning/coordination experience preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading brands including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ("Versant") comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks and complementary digital assets. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

This role supports our Universal Creative Team. At Universal Creative, we design, develop and deliver the most compelling entertainment experiences imaginable to drive growth for Universal Parks & Resorts worldwide. Our innovative attractions, immersive theme parks and world-class resorts fuse art and technology to create new standards in the themed entertainment industry.

Our team members are the driving force behind Universal Creative. With their diverse skills and forward-thinking ideas, our team pushes us beyond the boundaries of what\'s possible to achieve the extraordinary. Together, we\'re creating a Universe of fun, always ensuring the next thing we do is better than the last thing we did.