About the Role & Team

"We make magic.” That’s our motto at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you’ll help inspire that magic by enabling our teams to push the limits of entertainment and create the never-before-seen!"

You will be a part of a manufacturing team that schedules production orders at Central Shops located at The Walt Disney World Resort. Central Shops' is a low volume, high complexity manufacturing and maintenance facility supporting worldwide operations. You will schedule projects from manufacturing a specific part to the entire refurbishment of a roller coaster train. You will produce daily schedules, project schedules and potential project delivery date estimates in this role. You will partner with other members of the manufacturing team, such as Production Centers, Quality Assurance, Client Service Managers, Engineers, Estimators and Procurement, to ensure the schedule is reflective of attainable deliveries and identify projects in crisis to avoid any late deliveries.

You will report to the Manager, Manufacturing and Production Services.

This is a Full-Time Role

What You Will Do

• Work with Planning Software (Maximo) and Scheduling Software (Primavera) to input new production orders and resource schedules for the different teams across Central Shops. Daily, you will run the production schedule for each production area. You will also run project schedules for our Client Services Managers for their project management of their assigned projects.

• You will work with the Production Areas to ensure the resource capacities are representative of the scheduled capacities and avoid any variances.

• You will work with Planners and the Production Areas to determine the best sequence of operations to have all the necessary predecessors completed for any final assembly.

• You will identify priority levels for the 2,200 active work orders to balance the needs of all of our internal partners in the parks and resorts.

• Analyze current systems and reevaluate processes to ensure the most efficient scheduling workflow.

• Maintain accurate data and an inquisitiveness to explain data-driven results.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Manufacturing or construction project scheduling with at least 2 years' experience using scheduling software tools.

• Experience using Primavera

• Knowledge of computer programs, including knowledge in Microsoft excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)

• Understanding of how to consolidate multiple sources of information/analyses into a cohesive story and recommendation.

• Comfort with understanding and conveying written and verbal data and analysis to partners at all levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of assembly, machining, welding, fiber glass, paint and repair processes Experience as a Manufacturing or Process Engineer in a manufacturing, maintenance or processing environment.

• Proficiency Maximo and SAP

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Construction/Project Management or equivalent work experience