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Overview:

This Project Manager will be responsible for working with internal and external stakeholders in planning and executing the capital corporate projects. This involves project budgeting, scheduling, resource management, and execution. Position is needed to oversee all aspects (scope, budget, schedule) while coordinating the various stake holders and resources needed to execute the project. The role is accountable for the successful execution and delivery of assigned projects.

Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Manages internal and external teams to ensure the highest quality project execution, on time and on budget. Uses experience, management skills and tools to control multiple projects and to supervise internal and external stakeholders. Oversees the teams that will bring the projects from design through opening day/handoff.

• Project Scheduling: Manages the scheduling process to include design team meetings, interfacing internal partners and external vendors, communicating, and implementing project plans, and ensuring Corporate/Park policies and procedures are followed.

• Project Design Supervision: Manages and directs design resources related to project management needs. Supervises and manages the completion of critical path deliverables during the design process related to all projects. Collaborates with the Creative Producer to ensure design collateral is developed and executed to the highest industry standards. Informs key team members and stake holders of progress and collaborates to complete design efforts to accomplish the creative and operational goals of the project.

• Project Budgeting Supervision: Utilizes skills, resources, and tools to provide informed project estimating to key stake holders. Supervises the development and acquisition of all information to inform the estimating process. Develops and presents estimates for every phase of the project from “Blue Sky” through construction.

• Project Resourcing: Works with both internal and external stakeholders to determine scope of project resources needed to for implementation. Sources and oversees selection of resources, vendors and deliverables needed to successfully ensure that the project meets both the design and budgetary guidelines.

• Project Bidding/Procurement and Contract Management: Working with both internal and external stakeholders, manages overall procurement process to competitively bid projects. This process will cover the broad procurement and contracting functions for all major components of event/festival/entertainment design.

• Project Reporting: Develop and implement project controls to manage all aspects of the development process. Utilize skills, experience, and tools to provide visibility and processes for key project management tools (design, estimating, bidding, procurement, and construction). Provide project visibility to key company stakeholders/senior management (scope, schedule and budget) that is coordinated with field execution.

• Talent Development: Cultivate, secure, and develop talent both internally and externally to support corporate capital projects. Identify and leverage subject-matter-experts company-wide to improve all aspects of corporate capital project execution. Build a company-wide team of subject matter experts to benefit and support the objectives of the capital projects and elevate the quality of process/product for the overall CFE portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Architecture

• 10+ years of total work related experience is required

• At least 5 years of supervisory or leadership experience is required

• Preferred Requirements: PMP Certification or Equivalent

Cedar Fair Entertainment Company is an equal opportunity employer. A work permit may be required for associates under the age of 18. Applicants must be legally eligible for employment in the United States and in accordance with state laws. Cedar Fair also conducts background checks on all applicants 18 years of age and older.