Operations and Facility Leader with a track record of building high-performing teams. Structuring a culture of care within diverse environments. Adapting to any operation knowing that driving the team is the key to delivering success on all levels. Highly collaborative, adaptable, and committed to team success and creating personable relationships and inspiring others to maintain their best through a positive aura and daily interactions.
• Develop and schedule maintenance plans. Create schedules for our campuses assets such as PK Heaters, Steam Boilers, Chillers HVAC systems beyond our regular monthly PMs
• Manage day to day service request and work orders. Review incoming service requests and dispatch to our technicians based on the urgency of request. Utilizing our CMMS system.
• Maintain records and Documentation for our Manifests of hazardous waste, monthly PELSAs and Water management, and licenses for assets needing yearly inspections
• Ensure safety and compliance throughout the facility ensuring we are abiding code for ICRAs, DNV and ACHA compliance.
• Inspire our technicians to want to grow within their position and maintain a positive energy throughout their daily shifts.
• Oversaw the refurbishment and expansion of Soarin' "Around the World"adding a 3rd theater and switching the IMAX to around the world, the scents and hanglider reaction times
• Defined project scope, objectives, and deliverables from concept initiation through installation. This includes creating detailed project plans, timelines, and critical path schedules for attraction-specific elements like ride systems, audio-visual integrations, or thematic environments.
• Completed redlines for the Operating guide for training of the Attraction. Worked closely with our training team to complete the operating guide within time for training team to approve.
• Developed a test and adjust team to assist with Operations side of the Attraction. To ensure safety, efficiency and utilized their feedback to enhance the operation.
• Identified technical risks, scope changes, and potential issues early through our test & adjust team. Mitigate them through proactive strategies. Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and communicate impacts on timelines, budgets, and quality to proper leadership.
• Maintained budget and throughout the project. Worked with the construction team to resolve any issues and concerns during project. Turnover the Attraction a week early to operations for them to start their training with their team.
• Overseen the Facilities maintenance operation for EPCOT Westside welcoming 40,000+ guests daily. Managed multiple 50,000 sq ft pavilions typically 10-15 Cast members per pavilion. With Attractions, restaurants, restrooms within each pavilion
• Managed Facilities budget, planning maintenance and projects for attractions and pavilions
• Managed Engineering cast members ensure they had proper OSHA training and completed daily, monthly and weekly PMs.
• Coordinated with vendors for fire and safety and waste systems
• Monitored scheduling and made day of changes to adapt with high park velum or low park volume
• Attended all attraction downtimes and concerns made decisions to keep attractions down to investigate further. Partnering with Attraction managers to ensure the attraction is safe to turn back over after repairs have been made
• Ensure all work orders and request are completed safely and efficiently. Completed trainings with Engineering staff to cover all obstacles we could experience during shifts.
• Attractions Manager Future World West, managing 500 cast members within 6 attractions. Living with the Land, Soarin, Nemo and Friends, Spaceship Earth, Journey into imagination, Captain EO
• Recruit, hire, train, and schedule attraction cast members. conduct performance evaluations and provide coaching to foster development. This includes managing shift rotations for 24/7 park operations and reassigning staff during peak times or emergencies.
• Optimize guest experience monitor guest flow through attractions to minimize wait times. Improving attraction efficiencies by implementing enhanced processes utilizing budget targets. Create magical experiences aligned with attractions themes.
• Maintain operational efficiency coordinate maintenance and downtime schedules with engineering teams. Manage inventory for attraction supplies. Analyze daily metrics like throughput, Guest Carry target and guest satisfaction to improve processes.
• Oversaw departmental budgets for labor, supplies, and minor repairs multitask across multiple attractions or park areas collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as food & beverage or retail during events like Epcot International Food & Wine Festival.
• Promoted a collaborative and high performing inclusive team that maintained a culture of care by creating experiences for our our cast and guest.
• Led 150 Cast Members to maintain Safety, Courtesy, Show and Efficiency daily. Created a high performing team based of leading with a culture of care and consistent communication and recognition.
• Make real time decisions regarding schedule team based on park forecast. weather events, high guest volumes during festivals and optimize workflows.
• Respond to emergencies, park 101s and communicate to Duty manager
•Team development, coach Cast Members on the Disney Basics, safety procedures.
• Ownership fo Coordinator Development ensuring our coordinators to level their leadership skills and ensure readiness for leadership casting call. We held weekly Basic meetings where we focused on our areas of opportunity. What our guests are saying and engaging in team building activities. Held monthly 1:1s with all coordinators focusing on their feedback and their personal areas of opportunity.
• Maintain park cleanliness, Monitor trash, sweep guests areas, mop floors, dust surfaces, vacuum indoor areas, attend parade and firework clean-up keep the park in pristine condition
• Maintain restroom cleanliness Maintain busy guest restrooms. Monitor 3-5 restrooms with-in the one. Sweep, sanitize, replace paper products, soap, maintain trash, counter tops and sinks.
• Deliver above and beyond guest expedience provide exceptional guest service by answering questions, delivering directions, and creating magical moments, such as handing out stickers, trading pins, or assisting with lost children and item
• Train new hires the operating guide for Custodial operations. Work in zones with new hire. Review policies, appearance guidelines, documents, review area to ensure awareness.
• Train on systems CDS for clocking in, AVAC system for trash removal, Compactor and Bailer usage, Walkie usage