Production Manager

Location:

Hickory, NC

Provide and manage event management and technical support for allevents supported by Conferences and Events at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

• Oversee the production assistant and student workers.

• Serve as director of all Conferences and Events technical services for performing arts venues, including PE Monroe, Belk Centrum and Grace Chapel.
• Serve as the point of contact for LR offices and units usingC&E-managed performing arts venues on campus regardingproduction management.
• Implement and monitor safety and fire prevention practices inall C&E event spaces.
• Ensure compliance with relevant policies and regulations forproductions managed through Conferences and Events, including ADAguidelines, copyright laws and safety guidelines.
• Oversee, operate and maintain all sound, lighting, rigging andother stage equipment in all C&E-managed venues on campus.
• Serve as lead technician in facilities supported by Conferencesand Events. Communicate through event reports to ensure problems are corrected.
• Hire, train, manage and supervise Conferences and Eventsproduction student employees.
• Maintain a database of work-study students.
• Maintain a database of outside contractors. Hire and managecontractors, and ensure invoicing and payments as needed for eventson campus in C&E-managed venues.
• Serve as the technical liaison between LR departments and internal and external groups using spaces for events.
• Serve as the technical advisor and review technical riders forall artists, speakers and groups using Conferences and Eventsfacilities.
• Staff events as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Ability to lift up to 60 pounds.
• Possess a valid driver's license.

• Possess strong managerial skills.
• Possess strong customer service and time management skills.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Possess comprehensive knowledge and experience in sound and production management.
• Possess strong knowledge and experience in theaterproduction.

• Maintain high integrity, confidentiality, and ethical standards.
• Maintain a healthy and safe environment.
• Maintain and contribute to a professional, respectful,courteous, diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment
• Treat other individuals with dignity, respect, andkindness.
• Adhere to all university policies, procedures, standards,values, and comply with all federal, state, and local laws.

Position requirements in the role description outlined aboveindicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and/or abilitiesdeemed necessary to perform the job competently. Role descriptionsare an overview of the duties, responsibilities, and requirements of the position and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list for the position. Employees may be required toperform other job-related assignments as requested and acquire newskills and responsibilities.

Lenoir-Rhyne University reserves theright to modify, add, remove, or waive the responsibilities,duties, and skills required of the position.

Lenoir-Rhyne University is a co-educational, private, comprehensiveliberal arts institution founded in 1891, with its traditionalcampus located in Hickory, North Carolina, a city of more than
40,000. The university has additional graduate centers in Asheville, N.C., and Columbia, S.C. Situated in the foothills ofthe Blue Ridge Mountains, Lenoir-Rhyne is less than an hour’s drivefrom Charlotte, and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of about 365,000. The universitynow offers more than 45 undergraduate and 20 graduate degree programs to approximately 2,400 students. Lenoir-Rhyne University seeks to liberate mind and spirit, clarify personal faith, fosterphysical wholeness, build community, and promote responsibleleadership for service to the world.

Affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lenoir-Rhyne is opento people from all religious and non-religious backgrounds.

Lenoir-Rhyne University is committed to providing a workplace and educational environment, as well as other benefits, programs, and activities that are free from discrimination, harassment andretaliation. LR is committed to creating a safe campus environment for all members of the LR community, including, but not limited to, thosewho identify as transgender and gender non-conforming. To that end,LR does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex(including sex stereotypes and sex characteristics), ethnicity,national origin, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran or military status or anyother characteristic or status protected by applicable law.

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