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• Ensures the production of theatre scenery and sets on schedule by determining the kind and amount of materials required, the tools or equipment needed, the order and sequence involved in the fabrication of the single items or complete units, and the time required to meet production deadlines.
• Ensures the safe, efficient, and effective operation of the Scene Shop, scenic storage, and scenic work within all rehearsal, performance, and auxiliary spaces.
• Under the supervision of the Production Manager and with direction from the Production Director, Lead a team of students through the build, installation, maintenance, and strike of over eight productions per year.
• Ensures the efficient daily operation of the theatre scenery shop by maintaining a sufficient inventory of supplies, construction materials and equipment, and purchasing replacement items as needed.
• Promotes preventive maintenance as a strategy in maintaining hand and power tools as well as gas and electric welders by performing and directing the routine maintenance and cleaning of all tools and equipment in the scenery shop.
• Ensures an accident-free learning and work environment by enforcing safety rules and supervising students when operating scenery shop tools and equipment.

• Produces quality theatre scenery by assisting the technical director, scenic designer and artistic director in the development of desired product.
• Seeks the most artistically appropriate solution in the completion of the projects by utilizing industry-accepted practices and tolerances when working with such materials as wood, metal, plastics, and canvas.
• Directs the activities of the scenery shop by planning and organizing construction projects utilizing rough sketches, basic blueprints or verbal instructions.
• Assists in shaping the final scenic designs by providing construction advice and artistic input to the designer and technical director.
• Supports theatre presentations by assisting in the set up of stage units, directing the placement and rigging of scenery, and supervising the dismantling and storage of stage units following the production.

• Responsible for adhering to the individual production budgets as well as overseeing the Scene Shop budget. Budget oversight begins the pre-planning phase for each production and concludes only when the production has closed and is taken down and stored or disposed of (strike).
• Work closely with scenic designers, directors, production managers and producers to ensure that individual productions and overhead fits within the established budgetary profile.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Theatre with an emphasis in Technical Theatre
• At least two years practical work experience in the technical preparation and construction of theatre scenery and stage units

• Supervisory skills are required.
• Mechanical skills in the use of hand and power tools, and gas and electric welders are required. The ability to read and understand floor plans, color renderings, electrical schematics, and advanced construction plans or blueprints is required.
• Strong oral and written communications skills are required.
• The ability to instruct on material relevant to technical production labs is required.
• The ability to develop knowledge of, respect for, and skills to engage with those of other cultures or backgrounds is required.

• The ability to lift and carry materials weighing between 50 – 100 pounds on a daily basis is required.
• The position requires prolonged standing, frequent bending or stooping and climbing of steps and ladders.
• Occasionally may be required to work on stage grid at a height of 60 feet.

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