Temporary Field Service Animatronic Technician (La Messa - Mira Mesa)
Spirit Halloween is a company focused on providing fun and creating a great workplace culture. They are seeking a Temporary Field Service Animatronic Technician to inspect, maintain, and repair animatronic displays across store locations, ensuring operational standards are met to enhance the guest experience.
Responsibilities
- Travel to assigned store locations for scheduled maintenance and urgent repairs
- Inspect, diagnose, and repair animatronic displays to meet company merchandise standards and guidelines, ensuring compliance
- Perform preventive maintenance to minimize downtime and extend equipment lifespan
- Provide on-site and remote troubleshooting support to store teams, ensuring prompt responses to service requests
- Conduct in-store repairs on guest animatronic returns and coordinate with the Zombie Tech Squad for parts
- Maintain accurate service logs, repair documentation, and inventory records, including before-and-after photos of ISE and animatronic placements
- Submit expense reports using expense application
- Use of excel and file organization to track and maintain completed work and outstanding issues
- Collaborate with the Territory Support Manager, Zone Managers, District Managers, and Store Teams to address merchandising challenges and support operational goals
- Assess and improve visual merchandising presentations, providing feedback to the Zombie Tech Team and Store Experience Team
- Participate actively in daily and weekly team calls
- Perform other duties as assigned
Skills
- High School Diploma or GED required
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office to include Word, Publisher, and Excel
- Ability to travel extensively
- Self-starter with excellent communication skills
- Detail-oriented with proven ability to understand and interpret visual presentation directions
- Mechanical/engineering experience to handle repairs in a timely fashion
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
- 4-year college degree preferred
- 1+ year of experience with Spirit Halloween preferred
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