Assistant Project Manager (Ship Building)

Under general supervision from the Sr Project Manager, this Assistant Project Manager role is responsible for scope control, change management, budget control, risk management, schedule adherence and integration for the assigned areas of the ship. This position requires good communication skills, attention to detail, ability to process large quantities of data accurately, good judgment and prioritization, and the person is essential to fostering collaboration and coordination of all work streams with creative, design, production, and construction teams in the delivery of the vessel to be ready for guests on board.

This role is based in Wismar, Germany and it will require you to be onsite at the shipyard. Previous ship building experience is desirable, although project management of highly themed land based project is also applicable.

Primary Duties:

• Accountable for fiscal and schedule performance of assigned areas of the ship

• Assists with the identification, impact assessment, and disposition of project changes

• Understand project scoping documents, risk log, schedule, and plans

• Ensure alignment of scope to budget

• Present project status, risks, opportunities, and issues to Senior Leadership

• Produce and quality check routine and ad hoc reporting

• Review of detail design / shop drawings for compliance with Disney standards and integration and notating comments where variances exist

• Assists in developing mitigations to variances to the project plan and drives corrective actions

• Develop tracking tools to ensure comments are incorporated into design and the Disney Furnishes Items are delivered and installed on schedule

• Collaborate with internal and external organizations including project team, operations, authorities, suppliers, and contractors

• Support preparation of contract documents for bid packages

• Understand project workflows, design inputs and outputs, and project sequencing relationships

• Participate in the identification and assessment of project risk and contingency determinations

Qualifications:

• 2+ years relevant experience in Project Management or Project Controls

• Ability to think tactically and apply problem solving skills

• Basic leadership skills and partnering ability

• Meeting leadership, facilitation, basic conflict resolution, and alignment skills

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

• Knowledge of design, production, and/or construction

• Understanding of the relationship between scope, cost, and schedule and implications of impact of one to the other

• Understanding of contract administration, contract management, legal and commercial terms, and basic negotiation skills

• Able to understand design standards and drawings

• Understanding of project plans and change management

• Stress tolerance

• Adapt to changing project demands, collaborates with diverse project teams and meets milestone schedule expectations/deadlines

• Effectively summarize communications for executive management

Preferred Qualifications::

• High-End Hospitality/Resort or Ship Building experience preferred

Education:

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

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