Lead Technician
The Lead Technician is part of the administrative staff as well as the technician team. Besides personally serving in the booth as a tech for The Infinite Wrench (TIW), they maintain the company's sound, light, and video gear and manage the tech corps.
To apply: send resume & cover letter to admin <at> neofuturists.org
Pay Schedule - Paid biweekly as a W2 employee, with appropriate taxes remitted
Reporting Relationships - Reports to Neo-Futurist Ensemble (including Artistic Director) and General Manager
Compensation - $22/hr; optional monthly health insurance stipend
Hours - up to 15 hr/week; more during major projects
Role Responsibilities include but are not limited to -
Space & Inventory:
● Maintaining the space’s technical inventory within the Performance and Technical spaces (Theater, State
Park, Tech Closet, State Park Closet, and Booth)
● Cleaning, organizing, and maintaining our technical storage spaces:
○ State Park walk-in closet with tools & hardware
○ State Park control room with sound, lighting, and video
○ Green Room walk-in closet with sound, lighting, and video gear
○ Green Room lighting overstock
● Maintaining the Mac Mini in the Booth
○ Includes Qlab licensing, OS updates
● Resetting the space to our rep plot after a short-run production closes
● Annual space reset during the Theater’s dark weeks
Administration:
● Training new technicians on the proper operation of our Sound Mixer, QLab (running both audio and
video), and our ETC Element
● On-call for technical troubleshooting:
○ Review TIW reports for technical issues and provide advice and support
● Hiring new Technicians into the TIW tech corps
● Scheduling the tech corps for TIW tech runs
● Assigning techs to outside gigs, one-off performances, rentals, and class shows.
● Submitting monthly updates to Company Meetings and attending Company Meetings as needed
● Facilitating communication between productions on technical needs and what is/is not allowed to be used between productions
More information at our website.