Ride Maintenance Team Lead

Mall of America•East Rutherford, NJ

18d•Onsite

About The Position

The Ride Tech Team Lead acts in a support role to the Ride Maintenance Supervisors and will assign daily work to Ride Maintenance Technicians, ensuring they have addressed all tasks on their daily opening and closing task lists and signed off on them. This role is responsible for the safety, quality, quantity, efficiency, and effectiveness of work output, serving as a first-line supervisor. The Team Lead also ensures the overall safety of immediate and surrounding work areas, provides outstanding internal and external guest service, and maintains a solid understanding of amusement ride maintenance protocols and operation. Documentation of schedules, reports, and personnel performance is also a key aspect of this role. The Team Lead serves as a contact for other departments, appraising the nature of problems and ensuring satisfactory resolution. Additionally, they are responsible for maintaining treatment systems, operating filtering and chemical treatment processes to ensure proper chemical levels in accordance with the Langlier Saturation Index and applicable local regulations. This includes performing required checks on flow meters, filter beds, tanks, pumps, and motors, as well as cleaning pump strainers, performing backwashes, degreasing filters, and removing blockages. Monitoring inventory of pool chemicals and supplies, and ensuring timely ordering and receipt of materials are also part of the duties. The Team Lead will set up and organize ride rehabs and all maintenance-related projects to ensure timely completion, and complete additional duties as needed.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
Possess an electrical and/or mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot and maintain all rides and attractions within the scope of normal park operations.
Minimum 5 years working experience in an industrial, mechanical or electrical field.
Minimum one-year leadership experience in related field.
Two-year technical degree in a mechanical/electrical field.
Certified Pool Operator (CPO) certification or ability to obtain certification.
Practiced experience in one or more of the following; mechanical, electrical. Hydraulics, pneumatics or welding as applied to large machinery and amusements rides and facilities
Working knowledge of Windows programs including but not limited to Excel and Word.
Effective and professional verbal and written communication required.

Responsibilities

Support all company and departmental policies and procedures
Ensure that all rides and facilities are ready in a safe operation before openings times.
Assign tasks as needed to facilitate safe and timely operation of all areas in company.
Utilize the work order system as required in performing daily duties and assigning work assignments.
Ensure that all departments are provided support within the scope of the resources of the maintenance department.
First line supervisory, responsible for safety, quality, quantity, efficiency and effectiveness of work output
Ensure the overall safety of the immediate work areas as well as surrounding areas.
Always provide outstanding internal and external guest service.
Solid understanding of amusement ride maintenance protocols and operation.
Documentation of schedules, reports and personnel performance
Serve as contact for other department, appraise nature of problems and ensure that it is resolved in satisfactory matter.
Maintain the treatment systems, operate the filtering and chemical treatment process to ensure that proper chemical levels are in accordance with the Langlier Saturation Index and applicable local regulations.
Perform the required checks on flow meters, filter beds, tanks, and all other system pumps and motors to ensure that all equipment is operating within prescribed limits and Government Standards.
Clean pump strainers, perform backwashes on all water systems, degrease and pressure spray filters, and remove blockages on pump packing drains as required.
Monitor inventory of pool chemicals or supplies, and ensure that supplies, materials and products are ordered and received.
Set up and organize ride rehabs and all maintenance related projects to ensure a timely completion.
Complete additional duties as needed