Project Management Intern

A Project Management Intern partners with the Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) Project Management team to assist in the delivery of the project within the scope, schedule, budget, and design quality requirements. Intern will support drawing reviews to ensure high quality, well-coordinated design documentation that achieves the creative vision, cost objectives, and design standards.

Additionally, the Intern will assist with coordinating the design and field installation of Disney produced items and the resolution of integration issues that arise during design and construction. Intern will be responsible for producing a variety of reports that communicate the status relative to defined plans, raising critical issues, and supporting the resolution of commercial issues that may arise. Good communication and collaboration skills are essential to this role.

This role will be based onsite in Papenburg, Germany.

Responsibilities:

• Obtain a thorough understanding of project plans and standards, then support monitoring of progress to ensure compliance or identify any variations to plan.
• Contribute to a collaborative work environment and effective communications that support timely decisions.
• Partner with all departments and stakeholders to ensure on-going alignment and integration of plans for successful project delivery.
• Identify any variations from approved project scope and process through change management system
• Identify critical issues and support resolution
• Reporting as required to support Project Manager
• Support the PM team in transversal Project Management tasks (meeting minutes, tools, executive reporting) and in Design Management tasks (design reviews, design standards checks, document management).

Specific Opportunities:

• Key support person ("right hand person") for the WDI Project Manager through the duration of internship
• Support problem solving by data collection, summarization and integration of parties
• Participate in project meetings
• Identify, monitor, and support mitigation of risks and realization of opportunities
• Interface with outside design consultants and ship yard related to scope of work progress
• Preparation of content for Project Manager and executive updates
• Grow existing personal engagement, collaboration and leadership skills

Basic Qualifications:

• Demonstration of management and leadership skills
• Commitment to collaboration and positive working environment
• Problem solving and understanding of team dynamics
• Curious, learns quickly, self-starter, and good intuition
• Good summarization and communication skills
• MS Office fluent, including visual presentation and learns other software packages quickly
• Attention to detail and ability to process large amounts of date accurately

Preferred Qualifications:

• Academic or professional participation in projects or initiatives that developed or required leadership presence

Required Education:

• Currently enrolled as a Junior or higher, or graduated within the past 12 months, from an accredited college/university, earning a degree majoring in Design, Engineering, Architecture, or similar technical degree.