Senior Media Equipment Technician

About the role

The Media Equipment Technician maintains and oversees work spaces associated with the Film and Media Arts and Journalism and Fashion Media Divisions, including an equipment cage, video editing labs, and audio booth. The position hires, trains, and supervises student workers to assist in the equipment cage, and actively supports students and faculty in production and study courses and projects.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for overseeing the use of equipment by faculty and students in the divisions.
• Ensuring policies and procedures are followed, including ensuring all equipment is checked out and checked back in, and checked for functionality.
• Maintaining inventory and checkouts in our available software solution and ensuring all equipment and materials are properly stored.
• Learning new applications, technologies, skill, hardware, and equipment through hands-on experimentation and direct application and provides training, coaching and assistance to faculty members and students within the academic unit.
• Managing the department's stockroom, production spaces, video editing labs and sound lab. This includes software updates on computers in our video and sound editing labs.
• Overseeing maintenance, repair, and of acquisition of checkout equipment (as needed).
• Actively supports the changing curricular needs of the faculty.
• Works closely with the chair of the divisions, production faculty, and colleagues to recommend software and hardware purchases based on budgets and department needs.
• Managing student workers including their keeping track of their schedules, official time approval, filling open positions and scheduling workers according to equipment checkout needs.
• Responsible for purchasing for Cage and lab related needs and repairs.
• Enhancing professional knowledge/skills by attending seminars, workshops and reviewing published literature in additional to establishing relationships with others at SMU and with other leading higher education institutions.
• Serving the entire University community as part of OIT's Academic Technology team. Assists Academic Technology team members by being a cross-functional shared resource that can partner with or backup other academic team members as required.
• Collaborates and leads projects in the Academic Technology team as assigned by the Associate CIO and Director in conjunction with the Meadows Chair and/or Dean.
• Collaborate and cross-train with colleagues in Meadows Digital Arts and Services to fully support all equipment checkout and lab/production spaces in Film & Journalism and provide backup assistance for recording and streaming of live Meadows events as needed.

About SMU

SMU’s more than 12,000 diverse, high-achieving students come from all 50 states and over 80 countries to take advantage of the University’s small classes, meaningful research opportunities, leadership development, community service, international study and innovative programs. SMU serves approximately 7,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students through eight degree-granting schools: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Cox School of Business, Lyle School of Engineering, Meadows School of the Arts, Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Dedman School of Law, Perkins School of Theology and Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. SMU is data driven, and its powerful supercomputing ecosystem – paired with entrepreneurial drive – creates an unrivaled environment for the University to deliver research excellence. Now in its second century of achievement, SMU is recognized for the ways it supports students, faculty and alumni as they become ethical, enterprising leaders in their professions and communities. SMU’s relationship with Dallas – the dynamic center of one of the nation’s fastest-growing regions – offers unique learning, research, social and career opportunities that provide a launch pad for global impact. SMU is nonsectarian in its teaching and committed to academic freedom and open inquiry.