Associate Manager, Ride & Show Engineering – Ride​/Show Controls; Expat to Beijing

Associate Manager, Ride & Show Engineering – Ride/Show Controls (Expat to Beijing)

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Provides technical management, inclusive of budget and schedule, for a singular contract or scope of work. Responsible for supporting or managing 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

• Assists in managing or manages vendors through the process of bidding, designing, manufacturing, testing, shipping, installation, start up, and commissioning of ride or show control systems.
• Provides technical guidance and vendor management through day‑to‑day design, fabrication, installation, test & adjust, and commissioning activities. Responsible for both technical and project/contract management as it applies to scope generation, vendor contract establishment and management, directives, and change order processing with the support of Ride/Show leaders.
• Supports the translating of creative intent and business goals into technical documents that will serve to acquire bids and lock in price and schedule for delivery of systems.
• Performs engineering technical (calculation, design, drafting, research) support to the Ride/Show project team and/or overall Engineering and Safety as assigned.
• Reviews portions of vendor‑provided design review documents. Includes drawing review, component selection review, calculation review, test plan review, test results review, or review of other deliverable items as specified by Engineering & Safety management.
• Reviews, edits, or develops test protocols, procedures, and plans. Executes, witnesses, or approves testing and test results as assigned and authorized by Engineering and Safety management.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Additional Information

1+ 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 goodwill.
• 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

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

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

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