$65,000 – $70,000 per year
Position Objective
The Senior Technician – Lighting is responsible for facilitating technical requirements and ensuring the successful delivery of key projects and programs, both as part of the Theatre Royal’s annual season, and for externally produced shows. The position participates in the following core streams of activity:
- Leads teams during bump-in, performances, and bump-out
- Coordinating the maintenance of the Theatre Royal spaces
- Providing input into, and overseeing the adherence to Workplace Health and Safety policies
- Coordinating delivery of back-stage technical services, with particular attention to lighting
The Senior Technician – Lighting is required to support both internal and external stakeholders with the technical delivery of productions and events. They will work closely with the Operations Team in coordinating repairs and maintenance of technical inventory, stage machinery and building services across the Theatre Royal space.
Reporting Structure
Internal stakeholders:
- Theatre Royal Operations Manager
- The position reports to the Technical Coordinator
- The position oversees casual back of house staff
- Close collaboration is required with Programming, Customer Services, Box Office, Marketing and Finance departments.
External stakeholders:
- Theatre Royal hirers, visiting companies, artists and producers, technical and facilities contractors, University of Tasmania employees, and other stakeholders.
Key duties and responsibilities
- Play a key role in delivering all incoming productions and events at the Theatre Royal, to ensure delivery of their technical requirements is in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner. This includes liaison with visiting companies, populating event management software and server folders with show and venue technical information, and disseminating information to casual crew, and visiting companies as required.
- Coordinate the delivery of all technical services at the Theatre Royal, including supervising casual technical staff.
- Act as a Venue Technician, operate the theatre’s equipment (including rigging, sound, audio-visual and lighting equipment) during bump-in, rehearsals and performances, and bump-out, with particular attention to lighting services.
- Act as Duty Technician as required. The Duty Technician role involves acting as Venue Technician, with additional responsibilities related to FOH liaison, and onstage safety and supervision.
- Work with the Operations Manager and Technical Coordinator to implement preventative and reactionary maintenance and repairs of Theatre Royal facilities and technical equipment.
- Coordinate creation and maintenance of standard venue console show files, standard rig drawings, patch sheets etc for lighting, audio, and AV equipment, with particular attention to lighting.
- Ensure the safe, tidy and efficient use of all BOH areas within the building.
- Monitor consumable stock held on-premises and report to Technical Coordinator when replenishment required.
- Ensure that Theatre Royal back of house and technical services are delivered in compliance with relevant workplace health and safety legislation, and Theatre Royal policies and procedures.
- Assist in completing departmental risk assessments, and ongoing document and procedural reviews.
- Represent the theatre in a professional manner, providing excellent customer service to all visiting company members, Theatre Royal staff, and contractors.
- Attend staff meetings and other functions as required.
- Other duties as directed by the CEO.
For all enquiries please contact Reuben Hopkins, Operations Manager on (03) 6146 3309 or operations@theatreroyal.com.au
Please email your application to operations@theatreroyal.com.au by 5pm on Monday 9 Dec, 2024
https://www.theatreroyal.com.au/about/work-with-us
Diversity and inclusion
The Theatre Royal is committed to equity and inclusion and welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability, mature age workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) people.
