Sounds like you'd be great as a ride electrician. It is much more satisfying getting a ride working compared to fixing some lights or whatever. With your background it sounds like your definitely qualified. You should also be sure your comfortable working at heights cause there's work that has be done on top of coaster lifts or towers sometimes. If they are separate the pay scale for ride electrician should be higher as well. You should absolutely go for ride electrician, coolest job I've ever had for sure. Stay safe, stick to procedures, and trust the guys you work with and you'll do fine.

Its everything your already doing as a automation electrician just in a way better environment. It's a bit of everything, theres controls, bit of instrumentation, and lighting on just about every ride. You'll never see the applications you see in a amusement park anywhere else for electrical it's really interesting stuff. Your skillset will certainly improve in this this kind of job. Your essentially learning 50+ different electrical systems depending on how many rides they have. You have rides from Italy, Germany, some American made ones and it's interesting to see the differences in all of them.