Senior Safety Auditor

Disney Disney · Media · Lake Buena Vista, FL +2

This role is for a Senior Safety Auditor at Disney Experiences, focusing on ensuring the safety of guests and cast members by auditing operational safety practices against Disney and external standards. The role involves leading audits, analyzing data, conducting assessments, building relationships, reporting findings to management, and driving improvements. It requires extensive experience in safety leadership within relevant industries and a strong understanding of safety regulations and best practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Actively lead and participate in regularly occurring Operational Safety audits throughout the Disney Experiences segment throughout the various stages of the audit (e.g., scope development, audit activity, post-audit follow up, etc.)
  2. Leverage data driven information, documented procedure and in-field observations to verify safety critical operating practices align with both Disney and External safety standard.
  3. Develop expertise in attractions, transportation, entertainment, recreation and other operations focused lines of businesses to effectively understand operating practices to audit against.
  4. Build relationships with leaders at all levels to gain their trust and assure the audit findings, observations, and understandings developed are accurate to the operations in review.
  5. Drive stakeholder agreement on any items from the audit processes to help develop actionable plans for mitigation.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of leadership experience in Attractions, Entertainment, Recreation, or Transportation or related fields
  • Knowledge of and experience with theme park safety-related standards, regulations, policies, and practices
  • Experience driving processes and accomplishing project goals.
  • Familiarity in SharePoint, MS Teams and Smartsheet use and maintenance.
  • Experience leading safety projects with a history of increasing responsibility.
  • History of leading and/or mentoring peers, with the ability to influence all types of people.
  • Demonstrated a strong process-oriented mindset with exceptional attention to detail, ensuring all tasks are executed precisely and consistently according to established standards.
  • Recognition and adaptation to group dynamics, ability to moderate within varying circumstances (i.e. ability to “read the room” and adapt).
  • Proven ability to communicate within all levels of our organization, including executive management.
  • Excellent presentation skills and the ability to translate audit specific details for a non-technical executive audience.
  • Experience gaining consensus and leading improvements in a positive and collaborative manner.
  • Demonstrates the physical capability and resilience required for the role, including standing for extended periods (8+ hours), walking several miles each day, and working in various weather conditions. Comfortable wearing personal protective equipment, climbing steps, ladders, and scaffolds, as well as working in confined or dark spaces as needed to ensure operational excellence and safety.
  • You will work a flexible schedule, (rarely, but potentially including weekends, holidays and evenings)
  • Available to travel, with the possibility of international travel

Nice to have

  • Disney experience with knowledge on Disney specific processes and standards.
  • Experience establishing and/or monitoring the health of safety critical processes and requirements.
  • Core understanding of the Performance Alignment Model and auditing.
  • Knowledge of multiple operations focused Lines of Businesses, such as Attractions, Transportation, Entertainment, Recreation, etc.
  • Proficiency with Smartsheet’s reporting and dashboard capabilities.
  • Training, experience, or certification in auditing process
  • Experience as a Leader of Leaders or equivalent.
  • Associate’s Degree or higher equivalent experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree-Preferred
  • Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) – preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • safety critical operating practices
  • Disney and External safety standard
  • theme park safety-related standards, regulations, policies, and practices
  • safety projects
  • safety critical processes and requirements