Project Manager Principal

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Lead large projects complex attractions or portfolios of smaller projects with accountability for scope schedule budget integration documentation safety & quality

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• 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
• Lead 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
• Effectively 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 challenging 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 the team 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 an advanced 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 an advanced 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
• Create 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 and contractors
• Act as an agent for change and continuous improvement; champion knowledge sharing to the team and WDI PM community including training and lessons learned
• Serve as a trainer and develop training material including functional standards guidelines best practices and templates
• Support recruiting and developing 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 Masters 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 drive for 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
• Excellent communication skills individually and in large group settings

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant 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

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