Senior Safety Auditor

The Walt Disney Company

Senior Safety Auditor ensuring safety-critical processes at Disney Experiences. Leading audits, building relationships, and driving safety enhancements to protect guests and cast members.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeLake Buena Vista • California, Florida • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $75,700 - $106,400 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.)
Leverage data driven information, documented procedure and in-field observations to verify safety critical operating practices align with both Disney and External safety standard.
Develop expertise in attractions, transportation, entertainment, recreation and other operations focused lines of businesses to effectively understand operating practices to audit against.
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.
Drive stakeholder agreement on any items from the audit processes to help develop actionable plans for mitigation.
Create and present Management and Executive audit report-outs that include driving follow-up requirements to completion.
Act as a regular representative for operations related initiatives through reoccurring meetings with partners throughout the segment.
Steer technical conversations with Senior Leadership with a confident/fact-based approach to drive actionable conclusions to identified issues.
Proactively drive both short-term and long-term scope planning, using subject matter expertise to make decisions to influence audit decisions for all audit activity for the team.
Champion one or multiple operations lines of businesses supported by WSA, by working directly with WSA Leadership and Operations leadership to serve as a resource for answers and decision making as events occur.
Use auditing expertise to diagnose the root cause behind any systemic issue found, both in regular auditing and through other investigation work.
Act as a mentor to team members and clients by daily actions, direction provided, and thoughtfulness when making critical decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Medical benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

audit processessafety standardsproject managementdata analysisroot cause analysisprocess improvementattention to detailsafety project leadershipoperational safety auditsscope planning

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationrelationship buildinginfluencingcollaborationpresentation skillsadaptabilitystakeholder engagementproblem-solving