Responsible for the safe maintenance of park rides, machinery and equipment.
Occupational Profile
The Leisure and Entertainment Sector is an exciting place to be a maintenance engineering technician offering many opportunities not found in other sectors.
The sector is diverse comprising multi-million pound international groups, large UK sites and smaller attractions. Attractions and rides range from hydraulic powered roller coasters, to small merry-go-rounds.
Rides and attractions are increasingly complex pieces of equipment incorporating engineering, virtual and augmented reality, pyrotechnics, aqua and sound. Technicians perform a vital role in maintaining the functionality and safety of these rides and attractions as well as making a major contribution to customer experience.
Leisure and Entertainment Maintenance Engineering Technicians:
- Maximize the benefits of the technology and equipment they work with
- Deliver engineering activities including; routine maintenance; fault finding and diagnostic; testing and commissioning
- Ensure that maintenance activities contribute to optimizing the customer experience and their safety
- Ensure all maintenance activities are conducted safely and comply with the legislation in this potential high-risk sector
- Are responsible for the quality of their own work, ensuring work is completed safely, to the required quality standards and time and budgets constraints
- Mostly conduct their activities in an outdoor setting (in wind and rain and sun), sometimes at height, often under the scrutiny of customers
- Work autonomously and as part of a teams (e.g. site-based maintenance teams, external equipment installation teams, external non-destructive testing teams)
The role of a Leisure and Entertainment Engineering Technician is comparable to other highly skilled engineering occupations. It covers the breadth of both mechanical and electrical/electronic engineering roles with additional specialisms including pyrotechnics, aqua, sound, and virtual and augmented reality technology.
Their knowledge, skills and behaviors are transferable to other roles across the wider engineering sector.
Companies in the sector employ Mechanical, Electrical and/or Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineers according to their range of rides and attractions including the following jobs:
- Engineering Technicians
- Maintenance Engineering Technicians
- Electrical Engineering Technicians
- Mechanical Engineering Technicians
- Multi-skilled Engineering Technicians
- Ride Technicians
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