Senior Safety Professional

Senior Safety Professional

The Senior Safety Professional, supporting Entertainment, serves as a key technical resource for project safety for Disney Live Entertainment project(s). The Senior Safety Professional will report to the Senior Manager, Worldwide Safety.

About the Role & Team

We Create Happiness. That's our vision at Disney Experiences, and it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you'll help inspire that magic by enabling our teams to push the limits of entertainment and safely create the never-before-seen! Are you ready to join this team and make an impact?

What You Will Do

On any given day, as a Senior Safety Professional, you might:

• Drive implementation of safety programs, performing job task analysis, analyzing injury and illness trend data, evaluating safety performance, and identifying opportunities to improve safety performance
• Lead Entertainment incident investigations and follow up
• Investigate and propose innovative and practical safety solutions while ensuring risk mitigation/minimization and safety/regulatory compliance
• Improve performance, review source material (rules, codes, laws and standards), identify and share industry practices
• Ensure implementation of applicable safety standards and established regulations
• Lead efforts to engage and collaborate with global and local partners to drive and ensure consistency across the Segment regarding Entertainment Safety
• Actively participate in Hazard Analysis meetings providing comprehensive subject matter expertise, hazard predictions, and risk evaluation support and ensuring proper mitigations, implementation, training, and documentation
• Participate in the Disney Live Entertainment Design Assurance Process including blue sky, design development and review, hazard analysis, and project implementation, and testing
• Provide subject matter expertise to Entertainment Standards and Safety Program development
• Provide Safety support for Character development and design
• Collaborate with Safety Professionals supporting the daily operation to ensure smooth project turnover between production and operation
• Collaborate with and inform representatives from federal agencies
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other Entertainment Safety Professionals across the segment
• Participate in relevant industry committee meetings on behalf of the Walt Disney Company and communicate outcomes to leaders and interested teams
• Articulate to project leadership and contractor's applicable standards, regulations, data (lagging and leading), emerging technologies, best practices, and risk reduction techniques
• Effectively communicate identified trends, significant near misses and incidents with project and safety leadership

Required Qualifications & Skills

Here's what you need to be successful at this job:

• 5+ years Basic Entertainment, occupational safety or engineering experience or related
• In-depth knowledge of relevant regulatory and industry standards and best practices as well as internal company standards and business practices
• Self-driven and resourceful professional with the ability to solve problems outside areas of expertise
• Demonstrated flexibility and ability to operate within an ambiguous and changing environment
• Proven strong planning, organization and prioritization skills
• Experience with strategic thinking, prioritization, and initiation of tasks
• Experience with proper writing, speaking, and presenting to all levels
• Resolve conflicts and diffuse difficult situations

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate Safety Professional (ASP) or Certified Safety Professional (CSP) designation

Education

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree in related field