Sound & Light Technician , II, or III

Bring the Show to Life!

Step into the action as a Community Arts Sound and Light Technician , where no two days are the same! From powering up the lights and sound for live concerts and movies to helping transform venues for festivals, community celebrations, and special events, you’ll be behind the scenes making unforgettable experiences happen. You’ll work with performers, production crews, event organizers, and the public to bring productions from concept to curtain call.

You’ll program and operate lighting and sound systems, troubleshoot technical challenges, coordinate event setups, and make sure every stage, screen, speaker, and spotlight is ready for showtime. This position puts you at the heart of some of the community’s biggest and most exciting events—concerts and outdoor movies to arts festivals, community celebrations, and city-sponsored special events. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of performances and productions while using your creativity, technical skills, and problem‑solving abilities to keep events running smoothly.

If you love live entertainment, technology, teamwork, and the excitement of seeing an event come together, this is your chance to help create experiences that audiences will remember long after the lights go down.

You’ll help make it all happen.

Under the supervision or direction of the Technical Theater Coordinator, provides lighting design, sound system coordination, and event set‑up for operations and activities of the Electric Theater Center, Community Arts Division and other City‑related special events and programs; and performs related duties as required. (Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics.

The list of tasks is illustrative only and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by positions in this class.)

Conditions and temperatures may vary depending on the assignment. Requires the use of vision and/or hearing to identify and evaluate emergencies. Must be able to respond quickly and appropriately to emergencies. Requires moderately heavy physical activity exerting 25-50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10-25 pounds of force frequently. Mental demands of intermittent exposure to stress as a result of human behavior.

Note:

Must be available to work weekends, evenings, holidays, and other schedules to help prepare for recreation offerings. This is a part‑time position with variable hours averaging less than 28 hours per week over a period of twelve months.

High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

Customer service experience preferred but not required. Some closely related experience in the principles of sound engineering, sound board operation, principles of lighting design and programming and theatrical lighting operations preferred but not required.

General Knowledge of Recreation and Leisure Activities and Programming Practices preferred.

• Highly motivated
• Dependable
• Customer service oriented
• Computer literate

• Follow Directions
• Perform Physical Labor
• Be Flexible
• Work with a team