We are looking for a Senior Planner to work for us on one of our clients’ theme park expansion project in Hong Kong. The position is a two year assignment with possible options for extension. The ideal candidate is a planner with local Hong Kong statutory and time extension experience.

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In near term, we will be looking for a number of open positions for the Hong Kong Theme Park Expansion project as well, so if you or your friends are interested, please drop in your CVs to us and we will be in contact when suitable opportunity arises.

Job Summary:

Our client is the global leader in high-quality entertainment and innovative technology. Begin a career that delivers unparalleled creative content and experiences to audiences around the world. Our client is the master planning, creative development, design, engineering, production, project management, and research and development arm of their Parks and Resorts business segment. Representing more than 150 disciplines, its talented corps of Imagineers are responsible for the creation of resorts, theme parks and attractions, hotels, water parks, real estate developments, regional entertainment venues, cruise ships and new media technology projects.

Senior Planner provide planning and scheduling expertise to all project teams and functional disciplines.

Duties include developing comprehensive implementation strategies and incorporate deliverables into project schedules, preparation of project life cycle and master schedules, integration of all schedules (design disciplines, vendors, production and construction) and providing a comprehensive project perspective.

Senior Planner will also monitor and evaluate risks & present recovery/mitigation plans to support turnover/opening schedule. Additionally, Senior Planner will perform earned value analysis when needed. Finally, Senior Planner provide progress reports and management presentations.

Responsibilities:

Under minimal supervision, will perform the following general duties and planning/scheduling control duties:

• Anticipate key indicators and proactively develops management and control reports to communicate

• Develop and analyzes mitigations for variances to plan

• Read and interpret design drawings

• With project team, develop project strategies, risk mitigations, and recovery/acceleration plans

• Develop project scoping documents, basis of estimate /schedule, strategy, and risk documents

• Manage the implementation of Earned Value (EV) system and analyzes implications of performance against EV

• Prepare contract documents for bid packages for Senior Planner including controls and reporting specifications, milestones, and budgets

• Contribute knowledge to team to training and lessons learned

• Manage interns and staff as required

• Provide input or recommendations for casting decisions, as requested by senior leadership, including participating in the interviewing process

• Ability to supervise, mentor, and train Associate and Staff Project Control

• Ability to direct outside consultants Project Control staff

• Routine day to day decision making authority on Project Control issues with moderate impacts to project delivery plan (and through consultation with Project Management). For complex items or items with a significant commercial, staffing, or schedule impact, works with principal, lead, or functional leaders in decision making.

• Participate in performance assessment and feedback

   

  Planning / Scheduling

• Develop highly integrated project life cycle and production schedules

• Lead discipline planning for creative, show, ride, facility, area development, installation & test and adjust• Develop project phasing plans

• Work with suppliers and subcontractor to influence schedule plans, mitigations, and acceleration

• Develop fragnet schedules and specialty reports as needed to focus on critical items and align team to progress requirements

• Develop and implements the integrated input matrix

• Plan and analyzes project resource requirements with consideration to advanced implications such as shift work, interdependencies, holiday calendars and seasonal productivity variation

• Lead planning and coordination meetings

• Understand direct and indirect project sequencing relationships including typical workarounds to standard relationships and associated risks

• Provide frequent communication, reporting, and interactions with project and studio team members including vendors and outside consultants on complex topics.

• Fosters collaboration across various stakeholders to develop integrated and fully supported Senior Planner plans, strategies, mitigations, and forecasts.

• Contributes in project leadership meetings and serves a trusted source of information and reliable analysis to project and studio leadership.

• Able to summarize communications for management or executive presentations.

   

  Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum five years scheduling and planning experience

• Experience developing CPM schedules for projects in excess of $200M and 3,000 activities

• Experience in design and implementation

• Ability to supervise consultants and suppliers including setting goals, prioritization of tasks, coordinating work, and managing time

• Knowledge of different types of contracting and procurement agreements and the impacts on Senior Planner

• Strong meeting leadership, facilitation, and alignment skills

• Basic conflict resolution skills

• Strong communication, collaboration, technical writing, and interpersonal skills

• Strong knowledge of design, manufacturing, and/or construction

• Strong analytical skills

• Comfortable and efficient with complexity

• Strong understanding of earned value progress and commodity measurement and related analysis

• Risk identification and management

• Negotiation skills

   

  Required Education

• 4 year undergraduate degree, preferably in a technical field such as engineering, architecture, construction management, or equivalent work experience in planning or estimating

   

  Preferred Education

• Discipline related professional certification or industry relevant continuing education desirable