Senior Project Planner/ Scheduler

UNIVERSAL PICTURES (SINGAPORE) HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NBCUniversal Singapore is seeking a Planning & Scheduling professional for the Facilities and Construction group. You will develop comprehensive project plans, schedules, and lifecycles across show/ride concepts and facility developments.

The role includes coordinating with vendors, managing resources, and providing project controls guidance to leadership. This is a fixed-term contract role through May 2029 based in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Experience with Primavera scheduling software.
• Strong ability to develop project master schedules.
• Proven track record in planning and scheduling complex programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop project life cycle and master schedules.
• Lead planning and coordination meetings with stakeholders.
• Provide schedule guidance during all project phases.

Skills

Project scheduling

Resource loading

Earned value tracking

Budgeting & cost control

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Primavera

Job description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Bringing the worlds of today's most relevant stories and popular characters to life is no small task. For Universal Creative, it's all in a day's work. The Universal Creative team is responsible for designing, developing, engineering and producing the most innovative themed entertainment anywhere on Earth. Headquartered in Orlando, the company operates at Universal Destinations & Experiences locations around the world in the United States, Singapore, Japan, and China.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. 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.

NBCUniversal Singapore earned a Great Place to Work certification as a result of our dynamic, inclusive and resilient culture. Here you can live your passion.

Job Description

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 report