STAGE MANAGER (AT-WILL)

Responsibilities

• Acts as Stage Supervisor and point of contact for rental clients during rental events.
• Delegates and oversees duties of Theater Technicians, and assumes responsibility for set-up, operation, and strike of all staging and related technical equipment to complete a successful operation of rental events.
• Maintains skills and up-to-date knowledge of theater equipment, maintains the theater including light equipment, sound equipment, rigging equipment, fly rail system, and stage.
• Performs maintenance and repair work of all production lighting systems, low-voltage control systems, and various building electrical components.
• Acts as an advisor to Torrance Cultural Arts Center staff on technical theater related items.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in technical theater, or a related field.
• Three years of experience in technical production in a large arts complex, including experience in a lead or supervisory capacity.
• Supervisory skills, including: hiring, training, counseling and disciplining.
• Public Contact/Interpersonal Skills, including: renter relations/marketing, and City employee and officials interaction.
• Theater Technical Skills, including: Modern lighting and sound equipment appropriate for theater use and set construction.
• A systems-rigging certification preferred.

Physical Demands

• The ability to stoop; to reach; to stand; to walk and sit for extended periods of time; to push and/or pull objects weighing up to 100 pounds; to lift and carry objects weighing up to 75 pounds.
• Frequent ability to climb stairs and ladders, and to kneel and/or crouch.
• Primarily performed in a dynamic theatre environment.
• Duties may include operations in other Torrance Cultural Arts Center facilities and/or off-site locations.