Assistant Production Director

POSITION SUMMARY

The Assistant Production Director at Cherry Hills Community Church provides day-to-day leadership for worship center production operations, ensuring weekend services and internal events are executed with consistency, excellence, and technical reliability. This role leads operational planning, staff and volunteer development, and production system health across audio, video, lighting, and streaming in alignment with the Production Director’s direction and standards. Success in this position strengthens team health, improves readiness and issue resolution, and increases long term sustainability through repeatable systems, effective delegation, and disciplined follow-through.

• Lead day-to-day worship center production operations for weekend services under the direction of the Production Director, ensuring staffing readiness, adherence to service standards, and consistent quality across audio, video, lighting, and streaming.
• Lead and develop assigned Production staff through regular 1:1s, training plans, scheduling, and performance feedback to ensure weekend readiness and team health.
• Translate the Production Director’s direction and ministry needs into weekly and seasonal execution plans, including run of show documentation, readiness checklists, service standards, and clear assignments.
• Lead service day operations through delegation and real-time oversight of rehearsals, soundchecks, and cueing, providing hands-on technical backup as needed to maintain service continuity.
• Provide second level leadership for Production by coaching staff, key volunteers and team leads, resolving escalations, and serving as the designated acting lead for worship center production when the Production Director is unavailable, including leading production planning and readiness communication across ministries.
• Lead weekly production planning and post-weekend operational debriefs, tracking action items, driving closure on open issues, and escalating risks or constraints to the Production Director.
• Direct production issue management by prioritizing service-impacting issues, assigning resources, approving routine corrective actions within delegated authority, and confirming root-cause resolution and documentation.
• Own the preventive maintenance and system health program for assigned AVL and streaming environments, including maintenance schedules, configuration management, update planning, and coordination of repairs.
• Coordinate and oversee installations, repairs, and system improvements in the worship center, ensuring safety, documentation, quality control, and alignment with the Production Director’s standards and timeline direction.
• Recruit, train, schedule, and coach production volunteers, building depth and consistency across all weekend roles.
• Assign and coordinate volunteer and staff coverage for services, ensuring roles are filled, expectations are clear, and support is available with the right information and resources.
• Direct production planning and execution for worship center events that are not designated as major seasonal events, including scope, timelines, staffing, and post-event evaluation, in coordination with the Production Director.
• Support major seasonal events by providing operational input, readiness planning, and execution of delegated production responsibilities as assigned by the Production Director.
• Manage production assets for assigned environments including inventory, labeling standards, storage, spares strategy, and replacement recommendations for Production Director review.
• Support resourcing in partnership with the Production Director by coordinating vendor quotes and schedules, recommending repairs and equipment replacements, tracking routine expenses within delegated authority, and preparing documentation for budget and capital planning decisions.
• Establish and enforce production standards for safety, documentation, and quality control across AVL installs, system changes, and weekend execution, in coordination with the Production Director to ensure consistent results.
• Maintain production documentation and training materials for weekend roles,…