Project Manager

Your mandate

The Production Manager works under the supervision of the Producer. They are responsible for the daily follow-up with coordinators and the editor, and collaborate closely with the CG Supervisor and VFX Supervisor to ensure the production stays on schedule and within budget. The Production Manager is in charge of the project planning and must keep it updated at all times.
Note: This is a short-term contract starting immediately and running through mid-July.

Your main responsibilities

• Receive your mandate from the Producer and review all project specifics, including commitments made by Squeeze to the client as outlined in the contract appendix.

• Propose a project schedule to the Producer to ensure all departments meet deadlines and stay within budget, and keep it constantly updated.

• Define key internal and external delivery milestones and make sure weekly deliveries and milestones are met.

• Plan detailed workflows in collaboration with department supervisors, producers, and coordinators.

• Work with leads and the production team to ensure that the complexity of the work aligns with initial estimates and remains within the allocated budget and timeline for each department. Report any issues if that’s not the case.

• Assess the overall workload to determine if the timeline is realistic and plan production accordingly.

• Adjust the schedule in response to production issues, managing the impact on deadlines and overtime.

• Coordinate with department heads and supervisors to ensure coordinators assign tasks to artists and plan their schedules, making sure work is well-balanced to optimize performance and aligned with each artist’s skillset and the production pipeline stages.

• Create and maintain reports that clearly show productivity across departments and individual artists. Ensure the data is accurate and up to date, following the company’s methodology.

• Oversee the coordinators’ floor rounds, engage with artists and production teams, and ensure all issues are addressed by liaising with producers and supervisors.

• Anticipate potential production issues, proactively suggest solutions, and escalate concerns to the Producer as needed.

• Attend client approval meetings to ensure they follow studio procedures, and take meeting notes.

• Join weekly production meetings to support the Producer with project details, particularly in response to financial or logistical questions.

• In collaboration with coordinators, review artists’ timesheets and flag potential overtime to the Producer.