Production Manager
Location: Hickory, NC
Position Summary
Provide and manage event management and technical support for all events supported by Conferences and Events at Lenoir-Rhyne University.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Oversee the production assistant and student workers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- 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 using C&E-managed performing arts venues on campus regarding production management.
- Implement and monitor safety and fire prevention practices in all C&E event spaces.
- Ensure compliance with relevant policies and regulations for productions managed through Conferences and Events, including ADA guidelines, copyright laws and safety guidelines.
- Oversee, operate and maintain all sound, lighting, rigging and other stage equipment in all C&E-managed venues on campus.
- Serve as lead technician in facilities supported by Conferences and Events. Communicate through event reports to ensure problems are corrected.
- Hire, train, manage and supervise Conferences and Events production student employees.
- Maintain a database of work-study students.
- Maintain a database of outside contractors. Hire and manage contractors, and ensure invoicing and payments as needed for events on 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 for all artists, speakers and groups using Conferences and Events facilities.
- Staff events as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to lift up to 60 pounds.
- Possess a valid driver's license.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Possess strong managerial skills.
- Possess strong customer service and time management skills.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Possess comprehensive knowledge and experience in sound and production management.
- Possess strong knowledge and experience in theater production.
Behavioral Expectations
- 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, and kindness.
- Adhere to all university policies, procedures, standards, values, and comply with all federal, state, and local laws.
Position requirements in the role description outlined above indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities deemed necessary to perform the job competently. Role descriptions are 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 to perform other job-related assignments as requested and acquire new skills and responsibilities. Lenoir-Rhyne University reserves the right to modify, add, remove, or waive the responsibilities, duties, and skills required of the position.
About Lenoir-Rhyne University
Lenoir-Rhyne University is a co-educational, private, comprehensive liberal arts institution founded in 1891, with its traditional campus 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 of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lenoir-Rhyne is less than an hour’s drive from Charlotte, and the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of about 365,000. The university now 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, foster physical wholeness, build community, and promote responsible leadership for service to the world. Affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lenoir-Rhyne is open to people from all religious and non-religious backgrounds.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Policy
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 and retaliation.
LR is committed to creating a safe campus environment for all members of the LR community, including, but not limited to, those who 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 any other characteristic or status protected by applicable law.
To ensure compliance with federal and state civil rights laws and regulations and to affirm its commitment to promoting the goals of fairness and equity in all aspects of the educational program, activity and employment, LR has developed internal policies and procedures that provide a prompt, fair and impartial process for those involved in an allegation of discrimination or harassment, and for allegations of retaliation.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.