POSITION IDENTIFICATION
TITLE Assistant Technical Director
CLASSIFICATION NUMBER 5066
GRADE 24
CLASSIFICATION Nonexempt
IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR Technical Director
MAJOR ADMINISTRATOR Senior Associate Athletics Director, Athletics and Entertainment Facilities
GENERAL FUNCTION
The Assistant Technical Director works closely with the Technical Director in developing, constructing, and maintaining the lighting and sound equipment for daily facility operations and scheduled special events in the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, GSB Arena, Hammons Student Center, Plaster Stadium, and Betty and Bobby Allison North and South Stadiums. The Assistant Technical Director provides production assistance to University departments and organizations as well as commercial entertainers, organizations, and groups utilizing the athletic and entertainment facilities, recommends appropriate staging, tightening of counterweight ropes, lighting, and sound techniques for scheduled events and performances. The Assistant Technical Director supervises production and technical crews composed of student and temporary employees and acts as the Technical Director’s representative when the Technical Director is unavailable for athletic events, shows, and meetings.
MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE QUALIFICATIONS
Education: A high school diploma or the equivalent is required; a Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
Experience: Three years of progressively responsible experience in technical operations, theatre, concert, or entertainment production at a comparable facility, which includes experience in stage lighting operations, sound reinforcement and design, development, counterweight operations, construction, maintenance, and operations, is required. If the educational level is the Bachelor’s degree, two years of progressively responsible experience in technical operations, theatre, concert, or entertainment production at a comparable facility, which includes experience in stage lighting operations, sound reinforcement and design, development, counterweight operations, construction, maintenance, and operations, is required.
Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills are required. Supervisory skills are required. The ability to design and construct production equipment from sketches, diagrams or plans is required. The ability to read and understand floor plans, color schemes, stage lighting, and basic construction plans or blueprints is required. Mechanical skills in the construction, operation, and minor repair of sound and lighting equipment and the use of hand and power tools are required.
Effort: The ability to lift and carry materials weighing up to 100 pounds on a frequent basis is required. The position requires prolonged standing, frequent bending or stooping, and climbing of steps and ladders. This position will occasionally be required to work on a grid at a height of at least 90 feet.
Other: The scope of the job frequently requires evening and weekend work, particularly during major athletic or entertainment events, lectures, and/or rehearsals.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assists the Technical Director in ensuring that athletic, entertainment, and special events at Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, GSB Arena, Hammons Student Center, Plaster Stadium, and Betty and Bobby Allison North and South stadiums have sufficient and suitable lighting and sound support by determining the desired lighting and sound effects required for specific events, designing special purpose or unique lighting and sound systems, if required, from instructions provided by stage managers, installing and repairing lighting and sound equipment following blueprints and wiring diagrams, operating controls to supply electrical and lighting effects, and positioning and operating lighting and sound equipment during events or performances.
2. Prevents contractual liability on the part of the University’s athletic and entertainment facilities by assisting the Technical Director in reviewing the technical riders of contracts for prospective performers to determine technical requirements and fulfilling the technical requirements with existing or rental lighting and sound equipment.
3. Assists the Technical Director by working with visiting entertainers and groups using the University’s athletic and entertainment facilities and providing them information regarding operational policies and procedures, coordinating specific requirements for technical and associated support, and advising them on staging techniques.
4. Assists the Technical Director in ensuring that the University’s athletic and entertainment facilities are ready for use by athletic teams, entertainers, or performing groups by coordinating with production crews to identify unique or special requirements, planning and organizing personnel and equipment resources to meet event schedules, and directing work crews in completing facility preparations.
5. Performs preventative maintenance as a strategy in maintaining facility lighting, sound, counterweight systems, and scoreboard equipment by periodically testing equipment and replacing components before failures occur, maintaining an inventory of spare parts and components to reduce down time when failures do occur, keeping a library of technical manuals and data manuals for equipment and components used in the facility, and remaining technically up-to-date on equipment through reading trade publications and technical journals and bulletins.
6. Assists the Technical Director in coordinating the production aspect of events conducted in the University’s athletic and entertainment facilities by renting forklifts, gasses, staging, and other necessary equipment, scheduling piano tuning and other professional services as required to support the event, and arranging and directing venue tours.
7. Assists the Technical Director in developing an effective and efficient staff of student technicians by recruiting and hiring qualified student workers, scheduling timesheet approval of student and temporary staff based on the Technical Director’s instructions, providing training in testing, tuning, adjusting, and operating lighting and sound equipment to obtain the optimum operating conditions, and scheduling and supervising student technicians.
8. Contributes to the overall success of the University’s athletic and entertainment facilities by performing all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
SUPERVISION
The Assistant Technical Director is supervised by the Technical Director and assists the Technical Director in the supervision of stagehands, contract labor, and student workers and part-time employees employed as A/V technicians and production crews.
OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES
REVISED DECEMBER 2023
