Production Supervisors play an integral part in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of all stage and theatrical activities. This role will primarily be responsible for assignments related to the preparation, maintenance, setup and operation of the Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre, a flexible black box theatre space that can be adapted to suit specific and unique performance needs from film screenings and corporate meetings to live performances and recordings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to:

• Serving as a primary liaison for resident companies, rentals, and events
• Coordinating schedules and working directly with artists, talent, and show contacts to make sure all contractual obligations are met, ensuring events and performances live up to client expectations and meet the high standards of the Long Center
• Taking advance information for incoming events and interpreting those needs within the Long Center’s spaces, equipment inventory, staffing and labor agreements
• Ensuring all necessary information is posted to a shared database, including light plot, ground plan, hang schedule, input list, cast and crew list, parking list, production schedule, dressing room assignments, show reports, and production estimates
• Scheduling, training, supervising and managing labor and staff brought in to assist with Rollins productions as necessary, including part-time employees and over-hire stagehands
• Creating, distributing, and posting expense estimates and budgets as they relate to a given production, including scenery, props, lighting, audio, labor, hospitality and catering needs
• Tracking and reporting spending and submitting complete settlement documentation to the appropriate individuals at the end of each production
• Consulting with other Long Center departments as needed to ensure production complies with fire code, building code, health and safety code, and OSHA requirements pertaining to all areas of production including seating configurations, stage build, live animals, fire and smoke effects, fall arrest, ladder safety, first aid equipment and supplies
• Unlocking and relocking all production related spaces as necessary in coordination and cooperation with other Long Center departments, including security and housekeeping
• Ensuring the stage is clear and clean at the end of the night, all trash is picked up and taken out, the stage is swept and mopped, and all equipment is properly stored
• Attending all production meetings and scheduling/leading production meetings when needed
• Attending all necessary trainings and serving on the Emergency Response Team
• Planning and making recommendations for future production department needs, ensuring professionalism, cleanliness, effectiveness, and efficiency of the department
• Protecting and maintaining Long Center facilities and equipment
• Assisting production, event, and operations staff with all aspects of event management including in areas outside of the Rollins Studio Theatre as needed

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent certification or degree from a technical or trade school and 2 years of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite and AutoCAD
• Lighting and sound experience a plus
• Proven success scheduling and supervising stagehands, volunteers, contract labor, and part-time employees
• Ability and availability to work irregular hours including early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear, use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, and controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate.

The Long Center is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we strive for a team that reflects Austin’s diverse culture. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, sex or age.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Evening shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Application Question(s):

• What are your salary expectations for this role?

Experience:

• Performing Arts/Supervisory: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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