Temporary Field Service Animatronic Technician (Laurel - Beltsville - Odenton)

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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 multiple store locations, ensuring high operational standards 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

Company Overview

  • Spirit Halloween is an seasonal Halloween retailer It was founded in 1983, and is headquartered in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.spirithalloween.com.

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