Studio Relocation Project Manager

Changing Lives Productions LLC•Burbank, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Dhar Mann Studios is undergoing a significant operational transition, relocating from its current Burbank facility to a new, larger studio in the San Fernando Valley. This move is designed to support the company's future growth in high-volume scripted content. The relocation involves numerous stages, including offices, production spaces, sets, equipment, props, wardrobe, art, facilities, storage, vendors, and departmental coordination. The Studio Relocation Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing this complex process, ensuring it is organized, accountable, and completed on time. This role requires meticulous tracking of timelines, dependencies, and action items, as well as effective communication and coordination with a wide range of stakeholders.

Requirements

5+ years of project management, production operations, studio operations, facilities coordination, construction coordination, move management, or complex cross-functional operations experience.
Proven ability to manage complicated projects with many stakeholders, moving pieces, dependencies, and deadlines.
Exceptional organization, follow-through, note-taking, documentation, and task-tracking skills.
Strong command of project management tools, spreadsheets, trackers, timelines, workback schedules, status reports, and meeting recaps.
Experience working with production teams, vendors, contractors, facilities teams, creative teams, operations teams, or similarly fast-moving cross-functional groups.
Ability to convert conversations into clear action items, owners, due dates, and escalation points.
Comfortable pushing busy people for updates, holding them accountable, and escalating missed deadlines without becoming emotional or political.
Strong judgment around when to solve a problem yourself, when to escalate, and when to force a decision.
Detail-oriented enough to catch missing forms, unclear owners, broken dependencies, incomplete checklists, and unresolved approvals before they create delays.
Calm under pressure, especially when priorities shift, timelines compress, or multiple departments need answers at the same time.
Comfortable being on-site regularly, walking spaces, attending vendor meetings, checking progress in person, and verifying that the plan matches reality.
Low ego and high urgency; willing to do the unglamorous work that keeps a major project from falling apart.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the master relocation timeline, workback schedule, milestone calendar, task tracker, and dependency map.
Translate strategic recommendations into clear action items with owners, deadlines, statuses, and next steps.
Run weekly and ad hoc relocation meetings, capture notes, document decisions, assign follow-ups, and circulate clear recaps.
Track progress across production, art, wardrobe, hair/makeup, props, facilities, booking, finance, post, creative, vendors, contractors, movers, and department leads.
Create and maintain trackers for action items, approvals, forms, purchase requests, vendor deliverables, space planning decisions, equipment moves, set moves, storage needs, department checklists, and open risks.
Ensure department owners complete assigned work on time and escalate blockers quickly.
Coordinate with vendors, contractors, movers, facilities teams, and internal stakeholders to organize dates, scopes, access needs, deliverables, insurance requirements, and paperwork.
Support inventory, tagging, labeling, packing plans, move sequencing, storage plans, and department-by-department transition checklists.
Help create a move-continuity plan to minimize disruption to production output.
Maintain clear documentation for key decisions, assumptions, dependencies, budget impacts, and unresolved issues.
Prepare status reports for leadership detailing progress, delays, blockers, and needed decisions.
Persistently follow up with stakeholders on assigned tasks, forms, approvals, and information.
Coordinate calendars, walkthroughs, department reviews, vendor meetings, site visits, and move-related working sessions.
Help organize SOPs, transition documents, department handoffs, launch checklists, and post-move follow-up items.
Stay informed about the physical move progress on the ground.