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Ride Control Systems Engineer

Jetzt bewerben Später bewerben Job ID 10083740 Standort Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA Veröffentlichungsdatum 12/04/2024 Unternehmen Walt Disney Imagineering

Job-Zusammenfassung:

“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 teams to push the limits of entertainment and build the never-before-seen! Are you ready to join this team and make your impact?

What You Will Do

Ride Control Systems Engineers work within Walt Disney Imagineering’s Florida based Ride Studio. They perform in a highly collaborative environment on diverse teams which include technical, creative, and park operations members. These engineers are responsible for all aspects of delivering ride-based attractions at the theme parks around the world. Our Ride Control Systems Engineers conceive, design, engineer, and deliver control systems for a variety of sophisticated and innovative ride systems.

The Ride Control Systems Engineer will report to the Ride Engineering Executive.

Required Qualifications

  • Collaborate with a team of ride control engineers, software engineers, and other specialists on technically complex electromechanical development projects.
  • Develop and implement ride control systems that deliver the creative intent and meet operational requirements.
  • Collaborate with project team members to deliver the creative intent.
  • Collaborate with attraction operators and project team members to define and deliver maintainable and reliable systems.
  • Work with supplier design, engineering, testing, installation, and commissioning efforts at supplier locations and at project construction sites.
  • Define technical requirements, design, and implement operator intensive, safety-critical control systems and software.
  • Develop safety-critical control architecture, network architecture, and algorithms for ride attractions, ride vehicles, and motion systems.
  • Design operator interfaces and electrical control panels.
  • Perform Installation Validation, I/O Checkout, System Functions Testing, Fault Testing, Adjusting / Tuning, and Acceptance Testing of man-rated control systems, which may require the use of active fall protection, catwalks, ladders, scaffolding, lifts, and/or access to confined spaces.
  • Write technical documents such as Theory of Operation, Design Specifications, Hazard Assessments, Software Design Document, Debug / Software Integration Test Plans
  • Create hazard assessments, and failure modes & effects analysis.
  • Write testing requirements, strategies, safety plans, and testing procedure documents.
  • Research new products, technologies, and methodologies and conduct trade-off studies.
  • Develop mock-ups and prototypes as needed to prove-out concepts.
  • Secure third-party inspection and UL certification of ride control systems.
  • Ensure code compliance with local jurisdiction inspectors and officials.
  • Develop facility interface requirements in documents, drawings, and 3D models.
  • Analyze system performance to ensure requirements are satisfied.
  • Design, model, and analyze electrical, data communication, and dynamic systems.
  • Review Electrical (e.g. single line drawing) & Mechanical (e.g. pneumatic diagram) drawings.
  • Conduct reviews and quality checks to ensure requirements have been satisfied.
  • Conduct ride system factory testing and field-testing efforts.
  • Identify faults and solve to find root cause.

Required Skills:

  • 4 years of experience designing, engineering, installing, and commissioning control systems for electromechanical systems.
  • Experience with safety-related systems design, including defensive design techniques, defensive programming, and fail-safe control systems.
  • Extensive knowledge of control processors, components, and communication networks used in multi-processing real-time industrial and/or embedded applications
  • Experience in industrial control system installation, integration and commissioning
  • Experience in broad application of control system theory (closed-loop control, MIMO systems, positioning and navigation)
  • Experience with software development tools (Integrated Development Environment (IDE), compilers, linkers, debuggers, etc)
  • Experience with real-time control systems (competent at ensuring deterministic system)
  • Able to develop and read reading electrical schematics and single line diagrams.
  • Experience with engineering tools, including AutoCAD, Matlab, Simulink, Solidworks.
  • Ability to select appropriate equipment control devices based on requirements for performance, reliability, maintainability, and ease of use (motors, drives, sensors, effectors, servo, …)
  • Design, implement, and solving complex systems, closed loop motion control.
  • Knowledge of pneumatic controls and devices
  • Experience with Safety Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and HMIs
  • Electrical system solving skills (voltmeter, oscilloscope, etc.)
  • Familiarity with electrical design standards and codes, including UL508a, NEC, and ASTM F2291
  • Experience with contractor/vendor management and technical contract documents
  • Experience in planning, scheduling and budgeting control systems development.
  • Ability to travel and work both domestically and internationally.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Ride control and theme park engineering experience
  • Familiarity with Configuration Management / Version Control Tool Usage
  • Proficiency in software/system algorithm design and modeling methodologies such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and System Modeling Language (SysML)
  • Understanding of communication technologies/protocols: TCP/IP, CAN, ProfiNET, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT
  • Experience with Software Case Tools and coding in C++
  • Experience with Allen Bradley ControlLogix or GuardLogix (RSLogix), Siemens SIMATIC Step 7 or Total Integrated Automation (TIA Portal), Rockwell, and Beckhoff.
  • Proficiency with Rockwell, Beckhoff, and Siemens automation systems architecture and components
  • Experience in wireless communications for control and monitoring electromechanical system.

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in a controls systems related engineering field from an accredited college or university.
  • Some coursework in the areas of Physics (Motion Equations / Dynamics), Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Control Theory.
  • Licensed professional engineer (State of Florida or other locale with means for Florida licensure through endorsement).

This position is located in Lake Buena Vista, FL.

Additional Information

Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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Über Walt Disney Imagineering:

Gegründet 1952 als WED Enterprises, um den weltweit ersten Themenpark zu entwerfen und zu bauen – Disneyland – ist Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) der Ort, an dem Phantasie und Kreativität mit modernster Technologie kombiniert werden, um unvergessliche Erfahrungen zu schaffen. WDI ist die kreative Kraft, die sich alle Disney-Themenparks, Resorts, Attraktionen und Kreuzfahrtschiffe weltweit ausdenkt, entwirft und baut. Die einzigartige Stärke von Imagineering liegt in seinem vielfältigen globalen Team von kreativen und technischen Fachleuten, die auf Disneys Tradition des Geschichtenerzählens aufbauen und neue Formen der Unterhaltung entwickeln. Die Imagineers, die diese einzigartige Mischung aus Kunst und Wissenschaft praktizieren, arbeiten in mehr als 100 Disziplinen, um eine Idee von der Konzeptphase des „blauen Himmels“ bis zum Eröffnungstag zu verwirklichen.

Über The Walt Disney Company:

Die Walt Disney Company ist zusammen mit ihren Tochtergesellschaften und verbundenen Unternehmen ein führendes, diversifiziertes internationales Familienunterhaltungs- und Medienunternehmen mit folgenden Geschäftsbereichen: Disney Entertainment, ESPN sowie Disney Experiences. Von seinen bescheidenen Anfängen als Zeichentrickfilmstudio in den 1920er Jahren bis zu seiner aktuellen Vorreiterrolle in der Unterhaltungsindustrie trägt Disney stolz sein Erbe weiter und bietet Geschichten und Erlebnisse von Weltklasse, die alle Familienmitglieder bezaubern. Disneys Geschichten, Figuren und Abenteuer erreichen Verbraucher und Gäste aus allen Teilen der Welt. Gemeinsam schaffen unsere Mitarbeiter und Darsteller aus Niederlassungen in über 40 Ländern der Welt Unterhaltungserlebnisse, die sowohl auf globaler Ebene als auch im heimischen Umfeld begeistern.

Diese Position ist bei Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc., das Teil eines Geschäftssegments ist, das wir Walt Disney Imagineering nennen.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. ist ein Arbeitgeber, der sich für Chancengleichheit einsetzt. Die Beschäftigungsmöglichkeit von Bewerbern wird ohne Berücksichtigung von Rasse, Hautfarbe, Religion, Geschlecht, nationaler Herkunft, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität, Behinderung oder geschütztem Veteranenstatus in Betracht gezogen. Disney fördert eine Unternehmenskultur, in der die Ideen und Entscheidungen aller Mitarbeiter uns helfen, zu wachsen, zu innovieren, die besten Geschichten zu schreiben und in einer sich schnell verändernden Welt wichtig zu sein.

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