Working at Cedar Point as a ride operator: What you NEED to know!
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2024
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As a ride operator for a different park - you typically have to wear shoes in case you need to get evacuated from the ride outside the station - those catwalks get HOT and also shoes will give you proper grip!
YES! Thank you for this comment! Ive had to Evac before and never put two and two together!
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Slay blue streak!!!💓 amazing video!
I just came across your channel and LOVE it! Keep up the great work! Awesome video! Hope to see you around at CP sometime! :)
Thank you Katie! I really appreciate that and will be making more thooise content! Say hi if you see me!
Great video! I've seen you at the park. 😁😁 You guys do a great job! I love Millie!!❤❤❤
AYEEE thank you so much!
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This is good information. I only worked Halloweekends a couple times but still kept coming across snarky, overconfident, arrogant, and ignorant people that worked there. STILL. Because I love amusement parks and was so rewarded to be able to work at one, I really have great memories and met some incredibly nice and fun people......some from other parts of the world. LOVE the guests!
You make me want to visit Cedar Point someday. I've never been but I heard it's definitely a special park.
Former Area Sup for rides at a smaller park. Whole lot of this stuff is pretty spot on. Want to provide a couple of pointers I've noticed got missed. Esp to those ops that have found this and are trying to move into leadership. May have missed some here and there but here's my big 3. Long ass comment so take your time to read it or w/e idm. Hope it's helpful for some of ya'll.
1. Time management. While bigger rides close later than smaller rides. You do a great job covering why they sometimes close later than others buit there's another reason why so many parks are pushing to get them closed down faster and this is one of the more in-depth reasons they want to see team members actually working fast. At my park, so I'm not gunna go into detail of the park name, ride names etc. for my own sanity but we had a Vekoma SLC and our crew there didn't finish running down the line until 1:47 AM on a 11 PM closing day and we had a huss manufactured ride also kind of in the same area, the one operator there got done right on time. It's not about getting the extra hours or etc. The reason they didn't run down that line as fast is because so many guests have figured out the get in line before sups close the line off at the end of the night trick. I'm sure other parks have exceptions for this now but when I worked where I was, it was always sups will close the line at close, let ride ops know line is closed off so you now know it's run down the line until no guests are there time. Now here's the bigger problem. I can tell you area supervisors will still have to sign you out so in this story, me. What did that look like for me? I was able to sign out the others who ran down their line and did a quick clean around their ride but these guys were still in which means 1. I couldn't leave yet 2. Senior management couldnt leave yet and 3. Park services couldnt start their job. The Vekoma SLC team still had to clean their area so It was nearly 2:30 AM by the time I signed them out so long story short: Thje faster you AND your team can actually run down that line at closing time and get your ride area cleaned, less stress you put on your supervisors if you're night shift. Morning and Mid-day don't get that same stress because they don't have to do all of the closing lists.
2. Paperwork! I don't know if Team Members at CP are allowed to fill these out or if it's Leads and above only but there's always something called a pre-opening checklist. This is what both maintenance and ride ops have to fill out and complete before rides are open, Maintenance had to do it first because they obviously have to initial it before they hand the ride out to team members. Your supervisor will be given the signal for your ride like half an hour before team members start arriving. I canno't stress this enough however, Use your legal name AND a black/blue pen. If you use your nickname that you get called by co-workers a lot or use say a pink pen, a pencil, we're going to be asking 'who signed this?' and give out a 'this does not look like this was filled out properly' kind of vibe; Just like the gotta have your name tag and proper uniform on, you will get in trouble for this as well usually.
3. Other leadership positions. I cannot stress this enough as well. A lot of team members will have euthansism for moving up but it's a tricky process like legitmately it was tricky for me at first and it took me 2 seasons to become a trainer and another 2 to Team Lead & Area Sup. I cannot count how many first teachbacks I've given team members who are soon to be trainers and their first scores were 3/16 up to a 5/16 (ANYONE who has gone through this entire process will know what I'm talking about with these numbers). These are usually used as a baseline to see which areas you need to improve because god forbid if we had trainers that did not cover everything then that would not look good and the company that does the audits WILL ALSO audit every trainer on those extra 8 componets not just the standard 10 the team members have (Again, if you gone through this process you know what I'm talking about here). Also part of moving around on a ride so much... Just keep in mind that's going to be benficial for you because there hasn't been a single day where I was an Area Supervisor where I wasn't walking around the entire park answering radio calls so my legs are usually burning by my lunch break which is usually a 60 instead of a 30 because Sups are full day not a 1 shift where I worked at. Also have a bunch of other crazy stories but that's for another day.
As a ride operator at a Six Flags park most of this advice carries over. The best part is always meeting new people and making life long connections!! Six Flags definitely has more of a ride rotation for their operators it sounds like compared to Cedar Point.
Thats what ive heard! The Six Flags ride ops ive met said they switch between a few rides often, which I think is really cool!
At a small amusement park I worked at, our rotations would have a couple of kiddie rides and one or two flat rides. The big rides were their own rotation. We rotated every hour which was very nice. There were a couple of rides that were really not liked at all for some reasons and it was nice to be there for just an hour!!! The carousel was the worst.
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HOLY COW!!! THE CHEESE TRAIN! Thats so incredible that you remember!
Can you do a video or give advice of what to bring to the dorms and things that you might need!! Or how the laundry room works and things like that pleaseee!! So excited to start my season!!!
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Did a brief stint at iron dragon in 2022. I didn't have what it takes and also got covid so ended up leaving. This year I'm interning at my home park instead in the warehouse for supply chain management which is what I want to do after graduation in December, either there or a logistics company in the area. Will be much more physical. The best part of living and working at CP was being on the bus line and going to Mass and Confession at Ss. Peter and Paul's, or St. Mary's downtown.
I do miss my Dragon though. spieling was fun ngl. I may consider cross-training on rides at my home park for more hours and also because if you're full-time there I think you have to work a certain number of hours front-line to understand the guest experience so if i want that i need to act like it.
Yep. I worked in a small amusement park and remember those days where my 15 minute break wasn't quite 15 minutes because of all the questions I received on the way to the break room.
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,,,,,*aCtualLy* Millennium's kinda sl00000ww,,,,,,,,,I saw the entire experience in your eyes lmaooo. Fking 120 second interval,,,,,like what IS THATTT and then when ppl still aren't ready ripppp. I'm so hapy u made another video, I'm thinkin bout making one,,,,,going back this year to Magnum!! Aggressive Arrow block systems!! -Andy
THEEE GRACIE FARMER!!!!
My first year back in 2022 I got Millie as my first ride, I absolutely loved Millie but I agree, no matter how hard you try you really can't go faster than beating the catch car by like a few feet lol. I got Millie again this year again yay!
that slow catch car drove me nuts!! people would wonder why we haven’t sent the train yet and think we are just standing around waiting for it 😂
I have onboarding at the end of May I’m hoping to get put on either gatekeeper or valravn!!
Gosh things have changed since I was a ride op in 07-08! Except the DOR in pencil, that's always been the case. Cedar Fair doesn't like upgrading their technology...that stuff is all automated at the Orlando parks.
thats hilarious!!! There are Ipads now at the rides where we fill out a lot of info and the DOR is electronic but also its still on paper too. When the ride ops bring their DOR in for the night its on paper, in pencil!!
I’ve worked at kings island and I loved the rides department and it was amazing
I live WAY closer to KI than I do cedar point and have considered trying it!
@@Graciefarmer yeah I’m bout to go in my second season and I’m really excited to make new friends
@@Graciefarmer also I live like an hour-2hrs away from KI so it benefits me just because it’s a 4 Hr drive to CP I love CP I’ll visit but seems a lil far for work for me
@@RideOpKam2024I’m also 2 hours away from KI, CP is about 5 hours but I’m still going there lol
This is my 1st year beening a ride operator I'm excited but nervous at the same time
Does cedar point provide housing other than the dorms? What're your options there and does it cost anything?
Hi, I’m interested in possibly working at CP next summer. Loved it since I was little. The only thing that stressed me out it having to walk of the lifthill during an e-stop or anything. Is that something any ride op has to do? I would prolly be fine doing something like that on Gemini, but something even like Magnum or SteVe would prolly stress me out tbh. Do you think that means it’s probably not the job for me? Is it common for an employee to be nervous about something like that? Thanks! Don’t be afraid to tell me the hard truth
you don’t have to be on a roller coaster, they give you a survey question if you’d be comfortable climbing a lift hill up to 205ft tall if you say no they’ll give you a different ride.
How long did it take you guys to get a response to your application
Best place to work
Did you work there last year?
I went like 15 times and pretty sure I seen you a few times
I was just assigned millennium force for my first year in ride ops.
Hopefully the line for Top Thrill 2 is not 5 hours long. Someone said that riders will only be allowed to ride that one once per day. I like that idea so the line goes faster and everyone has a chance to ride that coaster and not have to wait 4 or 5 hours in line.
What ride are you working on this year?
Do they have baselines for how many trains you should dispatch in a day? Do you get bonuses if you send out more trains? Assuming there is no inclement weather causing delays.
There’s no “bonus” for doing really well other than bragging rights and having your line go by quicker. it’s always something to try to do but sadly you don’t get too much for it
but yes there are baseline numbers for how many you SHOULD be getting
Worked at KI in rides for 5 years. I have no idea how you guys can work the whole summer and only work like 3 rides. In my first 4 seasons I got to operate every coaster at the park and almost every ride. I’m sure it’s fun up there but definitely not for me.
I've got a season pass, not local though. Hoping to make numerous trips in 2024. I hope to see you. Love Millennium Force. Don't remember seeing you in 2023.
Hope to see you this season!!!
@@Graciefarmer Missed you on my visit in May. Are you still working a ride?
Cedar point princess
You should advocate going to Knott’s Berry Farm to teach them how to improve from being the worst Ride Ops in the industry.
Yep, the ride ops have been trash lately.
I would love to go there and give it a try!
Just got hired yesterday :)
same!!!
Ouuu are you going to be dong rides?
@@Graciefarmer Yup! First day June 1st
I’m working at CP this summer and this video was sooo useful, aswell as the other ones. I’m planning on staying in the housing which one is the best?
Steel vengeance housing is the best, all the others are pretty bad
@@Astro-jz7nh I heard that the maverick dorms were nice, how much do the Steve ones cost?
@@zidoux586 I think like 12$ a day. I have lived in vengeance dorms 2 seasons and valravn 1 season. They’re all pretty bad but vengeance is for sure the best. Newer, cleaner, less obnoxious people blaring music on speakers and yelling in the hallways at 3:30 AM
@@Astro-jz7nh someone said that the Steve dorms don’t open till half way thru the season is that true?
@@zidoux586 I believe they were interns/leadership only for a bit either in 2022 or 2023 but I had no issues getting in in 2021 or in 2023 and I never did leadership, although my roommate I was friends with was a ride supervisor
Iron Dragon crew here 👋
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My left ear enjoyed the information.
i will take it
Any merchandise sales associate here?
Are you going to work there again this summer?
Still debating on it
very rougariffic video
Did you work Milli on coastermania 2022?
i was at corkscrew in 2022
2023 Millie Crew >>>>>>
you knowwww it
You doing MF for the 2024 season?
Ride ops is horrible. Glad I transferred from there to merchandise. Merchandise is the best, as you make the same pay as a ride ops, get to sit in an air conditioned store all day, and is just super, super chill. Highly recommend merchandise, as the experience will translate better to a different job.
haha yep that was my same reason for transferring to the One Team Center. Same pay, and air conditioning haha
you get so much fun exp though being an op
Hey
How old do u need to be to work as a ride operator?
16
I need a 2024 crew ?👀 where yall at 😂
Nice video, but your audio was one channel (single sided).
couldn’t keep up with you. Slow down girl!
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Don’t recommend working in rides there tbh
Its not for everyone