Controls Lead
We are a growing escape room company based in Fort Worth, Texas that offers its employees a creative work environment, ownership over projects and designs, and a youthful team atmosphere.
Red Door Escape Room is a rapidly growing escape room company in its 9th year of business and is one of the most highly reviewed escape rooms in the nation. Red Door is known for the care shown to both guests and employees alike.

• Our mission is to deepen relationships between people through creative entertainment. Our escape episodes provide an experience that invites creative thinking and collaborative teamwork.
• We actively practice and discuss our company values. I invite you to read what those are here: https://reddoorescape.com/whoweare/#values

We are looking to hire a Controls Lead on a full-time basis. The pay range we are offering is $47k - 56k annually based on experience. As Controls Lead, you will manage and work alongside a team of Electronics Technicians to design, program, wire, and install electronics in props, puzzles, and control panels.
Responsibilities

• Produce high quality props, puzzles, and controls systems
• Keep accurate documentation
• Follow and enforce electronics best practices
• Install episodes in new locations
• Team building, performance management, and staff development
• Cultivating and maintaining a healthy culture

Work alongside and lead members of the Controls team to construct and install escape episodes that meet key performance indicators.

• Purchasing items and materials
• Preparing for and leading the Controls team through new location installs

• Ensuring props and puzzle builds are properly documented

• Working with other teams and departments to solve production and maintenance issues

• Improving Red Door's production techniques and best practices

Manage members of the Controls team and provide vision for their growth on an individual and departmental level.

• Holding weekly 1:1s with direct reports
• Incrementally challenging team members
• Understanding the design team vision and cultivating team buy-in to the vision
• Assuring team members receive proper training
• Providing frequent communication on key skills and concrete steps for improving
• Championing team culture
• Keeping the office in good working order
• Learning new methods of production

Identify improvement areas and develop processes to streamline builds and improve organization.

• Developing systems and processes to better improvement areas
• Regulating innovation and change responsibly

Desired experience and requirements

• Basic understanding of electrical circuits
• Familiarity with programming concepts and languages (Arduino, Python, C , Ladder Logic)
• Strong organizational skills and cleanliness
• Excellent problem solving/analysis skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in Google Sheets
• Willingness to grow
• Ability to travel during new location installs (2 weeks at a time, 3-4 times per year)
• Ability to safely and confidently use ladders
• Ability to work with standard hand and power tools

Schedule

• 40-50 Hours per week, with the exception of install periods
• Monday - Friday between the hours of 8AM - 5PM with a 1 hour lunch break

Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $47k - 56k annually