Project Specialist | Full-Time | SeaWorld San Diego
San Diego, CAFull-time$21/hrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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The Project Specialist supports SeaWorld’s engineering department in completing park projects on time and within budget. The role maintains and organizes engineering documents, provides light drafting and project coordination support, and helps coordinate permits and project closeout. Candidates must have a high school diploma or equivalent, relevant software and office-program knowledge, and a valid driver’s license. A related degree is strongly preferred.
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Full job description
At SeaWorld, we're passionate about caring for animals. In fact, we've already rescued over 40,000 animals (and counting!). And we can save you from being stuck in just another job. Join us and help bring joy, excitement, and lasting memories to people from around the world. We're seeking enthusiastic, dedicated, and hard-working individuals to become our Ambassadors. Join us and play an important part on our incredible team!
Job Description Basic Job Function
- Responsible for providing support to engineering department to ensure successful completion of park projects on time and on budget.
- Responsible for maintaining, updating, and organizing engineering documents (blueprints, specifications, soils reports, surveys, record drawings, etc.) hard copy and electronic.
- Enthusiastically represents SeaWorld by displaying a positive attitude, high level of energy and commitment to quality throughout all aspects of the job.
Principle Duties
- Performs light drafting with new and existing documents.
- Maintains engineering documents and records; organize, scan, file, and archive.
- Project coordination, project closeout, permit coordination support.
- Light drafting work including updating of utility drawings and drafting to support park projects.
- SAP building assignment for projects.
- Maintains safe work environment.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills, Knowledge, Education and Training
- Must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
- Must have working knowledge of AutoCAD or Revit and able to produce single dimensioned layouts, including ability to incorporate updates to existing documents.
- Must have light accounting knowledge related to tracking budgets and spreadsheets.
- Must have knowledge of Microsoft programs including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Must have and maintain a valid California driver’s license; visiting students and military must have a valid driver’s license from state of residency and able to provide a copy of the DMV report.
- Must be able to meet requirements to drive SeaWorld vehicles.
- Must have strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Must have strong organizational skills.
- Must be able to lift/move up to 25 pounds.
- Must be able to positively interact with guests and co-workers of all ages, different ethnic/cultural backgrounds and/or language, and individuals with special needs.
- Pursuing engineering, architectural, project management, or construction related degree strongly preferred.
- Resume required.
Compensation: 21.00 USD per hour
The perks of the position:
- Paid Time Off
- Complimentary Park Tickets and Passes
- Park Discounts on Food and Merchandise
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401K Retirement plan
- Voluntary Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Dependent and Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Legal Assistance Plan
EEO Employer: SEAWORLD PARKS & ENTERTAINMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ALL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED WITHOUT REGARD TO AGE, RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, PREGNANCY, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, DISABILITY OR COVERED VETERAN STATUS.
How this job compares
Set against the 941 open Project Coordination jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$21/hr
- California median$27–38/hr20 hourly ranges
- US median$23–30/hr164 hourly ranges
This rate, $21/hr, is 38% below the California median midpoint ($34/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Project Coordination hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 63 open Project Coordination jobs in California and 941 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Stantec4 open
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- Experience
- Project Coordination postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (603 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 277 of the 941 open Project Coordination jobs (29%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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