Sr Controls Engineer

About the Role & Team

We create happiness." That's our motto at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you'll help encourage that magic by enabling our company to push the limits and build the never-before-seen! Are you ready to join this team and make an impact?

As a Sustaining Controls Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on the Ride Control aspect of Registered Attractions for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts. You will be hands-on, designing, developing, editing, and troubleshooting Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) software code, as well as some hardware troubleshooting of PLC hardware/modules. This is a highly dynamic work environment with rapidly changing priorities, where you will provide technical direction, deliver troubleshooting resolutions, analyze control system and software hazards, and lead technical projects.

In this senior engineer capacity, you will have minimal oversight from leadership, manage tasks independently, and mentor early career Cast. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, service provider work environments, machine learning, and safety.

Accountable for field engineering support to the Disneyland Resort and supporting departments, including control systems engineering services for ride, show, and other ride-related control systems. These services include planning, organizing, and leading teams in troubleshooting, resolving problems, enhancing system operations, improving system reliability, and creating documentation. Must have sufficient technical knowledge and awareness of details to be able to recognize when technical problems are developing in various disciplines, and to initiate appropriate corrective actions.

Respond to mechanical and control emergencies resulting from Attraction downtimes at the Resort.

This is a Full-Time role based in Anaheim, CA, reporting to the Senior Manager, Sustaining Engineering.

What You Will Do

* Respond to Attraction down times supporting Engineering Services and Operations' urgent needs.

* Develop scope for attraction reliability improvement efforts - design, install, testing, documentation, and closeout.

* Select systems and equipment that will satisfy design requirements and applicable codes and standards.

* Monitor downtime trends, looking for targeted areas of improvement for reliability efforts.

* Monitor control system performance to ensure systems operate within established performance criteria.

* Ability to investigate, troubleshoot, and communicate at the system level and be able to dive into the details when needed.

* Responsible for planning, scheduling, conducting, and coordinating the technical and management aspects of Sustaining Engineering tasks.

* Proficient in troubleshooting PLC software and hardware on complex ride systems.

* Understand ride system interfaces and how they relate to the overall operation of the Attraction.

* Partner with other Engineering teams on design efforts.

* Interact with maintenance teams and operations partners - gathering intel during downtime response and working cohesively on reliability improvement efforts.

* Perform ride system hazard analyses, including fault tree analysis and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

* Ensure compliance with standards and codes: IEEE, NFPA, ASTM, DOSH, NEC/CEC, etc...

* Adhere to the Department change process documents and procedures.

* Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, equipment, and materials in ride controls systems to ensure designs deliver cost-effective, energy-efficient, and reliable solutions.

* Ability to work flexible hours, including occasional overnight or third-shift assignments, to support critical projects and attractions.

Required Qualifications & Skills

* Controls Systems experience with 5+ years in the amusement park industry or industrial/manufacturing environment.

* Ride element performance analysis: dynamic, kinematic, hydraulic, and pneumatic analysis and calculations.

* Knowledge gained by experience in the following:
Electronic control systems and signal processing, including familiarity with relays and programmable logic controllers | Electrical motor controls, including…