Theatre Technical Coordinator

Date Posted: 03/01/2024

Req ID: 36256

Faculty/Division: Faculty of Music

Department: Faculty of Music

Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Position Number: 00056028

Description:

About us:

The Faculty of Music is Canada’s largest and most renowned university-based music program for professional musical training, creation, performance, education, and research. Home to a diverse and dynamic community of scholars, performers, composers, and educators, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music offers a supportive community in one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic cities. We provide a superb learning environment, an internationally renowned teaching faculty, multiple performance halls, and an outstanding music library collection. With degrees and diplomas available in numerous areas of study, our array of courses and programs provides our 900 students an exceptional opportunity to explore various fields within music. With over 600 concerts and events annually, the Faculty is an exciting and vibrant place to work, study, and visit.

Our faculty members include musicians who perform on the world’s most prestigious stages and record for major labels, scholars who present at leading international conferences and publish with top presses, educators who offer workshops and masterclasses at universities and conservatories worldwide, and composers whose works are performed by renowned ensembles and commissioned by acclaimed musicians and arts organizations.

Your opportunity:

The Faculty of Music is a great place to work. It has such a positive energy that comes from faculty, students and staff pursuing their love for and of music. We are small and hard-working team. We love what we do, and we work collaboratively to support our faculty and students in their musicmaking.

Under the direction of the Director of Operations, Performance, and Facilities, the incumbent will provide their technical acumen and will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operational and performance space needs at the Faculty of Music. Duties will include overseeing the day-to-day theatre operations ensuring that a safe working environment is maintained, planning and implementing a season performance schedule, maintaining and repairing theatre equipment, designing and fabricating custom production scenery, editing production documentation, analyzing, and recommending changes to rental fees, and planning and estimating financial resources required for programs and/or projects. In addition you will be responsible for picking up and dropping equipment and supplies to and from the theatre. Lastly, the incumbent will act as back up support for theatre technicians and other department colleagues, as required.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Analyzing processes and recommending changes for more efficient coordination of operations
• Implementing a rollout plan for the season performance schedule
• Conducting routine inspections of assigned facilities
• Implementing production activities according to plans and schedules
• Analyzing production set drawings
• Paying close attention to occupational safety precautions
• Coordinating the production of CAD drawings
• Planning and estimating financial resources required for programs and/or projects

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five (5) years experience in theatre operations required including overseeing day-to-day operational, design and production needs of performance spaces.
• Experience overseeing all technical aspects of a theatre such as rigging, lighting, audio, video, costuming, scenic painting, and props.
• Experience analyzing technical operation activities and requirements for a theatre and recommending changes for improvement.
• Experience analyzing technical specifications (for example, design documents) in preparation for production labour and material cost estimates for theatre projects and or productions.
• Experience planning and estimating financial resources required for programs and/or projects within a theatre environment.
• Experience designing and fabricating custom production scenery and analyzing production set drawings.
• Experience applying established standards when performing maintenance on theatre materials and repairing theatrical equipment.
• Experience scheduling and assigning work to a small group in a limited area, including short-term contractors within an theatre environment.
• Experience participating in routine inspections to ensure adherence to occupational safety standards as it pertains to theatre operations.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to liaise and work collaboratively with stakeholders and contractors.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of the Ontario Health and Safety Act and the regulations and guidelines which pertain to work in the theatre environment.
• Working-at-heights certification required.
• Class “G” Driver’s License required.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, that includes regular evening and weekend work during peak performance seasons.
• Ability to lift weight up to 25 kg.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience working in a unionized environment would be an asset.
• Standard First Aid with CPR Level C an asset.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Achievement oriented
• Approachable
• Communicator
• Multi-tasker
• Proactive
• Resourceful

Closing Date: 03/15/2024, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: USW 

Appointment Type: Budget – Continuing 

Schedule: Full-Time

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone: 

USW Pay Band 12 — $78,308 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $100,144. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 

Job Category: Arts & Culture

Lived Experience Statement

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

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