Manager,Ride & Show Engineering-Controls

Universal Studios; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Studios in Orlando is seeking a skilled Controls Engineer to apply industrial automation expertise to one of the park's flagship attraction projects. The role centers on a Siemens-based controls environment, with openness to Rockwell/AB backgrounds and the ability to transition.

You will provide technical leadership across scope, budget, and schedule for ride and show systems, including design reviews and acceptance testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field required.
• 5+ years in direct theme park technical/engineering roles supporting show control equipment.
• Experience with Siemens or Rockwell/AB platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage in-field installation, testing and adjustment of ride/show systems to contract specs.
• Review vendor designs and oversee mock-ups, prototypes and acceptance testing.
• Develop scopes of work and manage contracts with vendors based on creative intent.
• Lead design and production reviews to ensure quality and schedule alignment.
• Develop schedules and budgets; monitor progress from design through installation.

Skills

Siemens

Rockwell/AB

Controls engineering

Project management

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Siemens SIMATIC S7

Rockwell ControlLogix

Ladder logic

Motion control systems

VFDs (Variable Frequency Drives)

Job description

JOB SUMMARY:

What if your next industrial automation project wasn’t a factory, warehouse, or data center, but one of the biggest and most exciting attraction projects at a Universal park in the U.S.?

We’re looking for a talented Controls Engineer / Controls Engineering professional who knows industrial automation but wants to apply that expertise in an environment that’s anything but ordinary.

This is a Siemens-based controls environment, so Siemens industrial controls experience would be highly valuable. Coming from a Rockwell/Allen-Bradley background? We’re open to that too, particularly if you have the technical foundation and curiosity to transition your expertise into Siemens.

This role provides technical management, inclusive of budget and schedule, for an attraction or attractions under an area of responsibility. Responsible for the successful specification, bid/award, design, production, installation, and acceptance testing of Ride and/or Show systems, to include Ride Control or Show Control Systems.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages in-field installation, test and adjustment of scenic systems to ensure compliance with contract specifications. Works with Facility & Construction team and vendors to ensure a clear line of communication regarding installation, test, and adjust activities.
• Reviews designs and documentation from vendors, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements and specifications. Oversees vendor's mock-up, prototype, and acceptance testing efforts to ensure final installed systems meet scope of work and contract specifications.
• Creates scope of work documentation and awards contracts to vendors based on quantitative requirements derived from interpreting creative intent and employing Universal Specifications.
• Leads design and production reviews at vendor locations, ensuring product quality, specification conformance, and schedule accuracy.
• Develops and oversees project schedules and budgetary demands. Produces scopes of work and manages vendor progress from design through installation, ensuring alignment with schedule and budget.
• Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ Years: Projects experience within the scenic/entertainment/theme park industry required. Any experience in Theme park development, construction, show and ride systems design or fabrication is preferred.

A successful candidate would be able to perform the following to include, but not be limited to:

• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to organize and manage a complex series of tasks and vendor(s) to develop and implement show and ride systems.
• Strength in schedule analysis and contract management required.
• Comfortable Influencing decisions of major nature. High degree of tact & diplomacy to obtain favorable decisions or maintain good will.
• Comfortable working in a non-routine environment with frequently changing situations.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's Degree in applicable technical field required (examples include, but are not limited to, electrical engineering, computer science, computer programming, software engineering, mechatronics) or equivalent demonstrated skill and experience; Advanced Degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

5+ years’ experience in direct theme park-specific technical/engineering roles supporting show control equipment required (examples include, but are not limited to, ladder logic, variable frequency drives, motion control systems, control theory) or similar experience in related technical field.

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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