Central Lighting Director & Systems Lead

Gateway Church; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateway Church in Texas is seeking a Central Lighting Manager to own lighting design, programming standards, and system health across campuses. You will shape how a service looks, program lighting for ceremonies, and lead the Lighting Operators who execute it.

You will oversee equipment maintenance, budgets, and cross‑campus collaboration with Worship, Video, Audio, and Broadcast teams to ensure the lighting supports both room and broadcast needs.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional lighting experience — required.
• Associate degree or equivalent experience in a technical field — required.
• Experience programming lighting for live broadcast or multi-camera environments — preferred.
• Prior experience in a multisite church environment — preferred.

Responsibilities

• Owns lighting design, programming standards, and system health for Gateway Church
• Owns lighting operations at the broadcast campus and owns the lighting standard at all campuses.
• Personally programs and operates lighting for services and events as needed.
• Coordinates the lighting element of quarterly stage designs and major ministry events (which may be outsourced)
• Leads and develops the Lighting Operators and all Team Members
• Oversees the programming of lighting cues and the creation of service visuals for Central weekend services and events
• Creates lighting look sheets and programming guides for distribution to campuses
• Oversees maintenance and management of lighting systems, including hardware, software, and firmware updates, fixture cleaning, and repair
• Oversees lighting networks, consoles, processors, and control systems churchwide
• Manages the lighting budget within the approved threshold and speaks into equipment lifecycle and capital requests
• Recruits, trains, develops, and provides accountability for the lighting Serve Team
• Partners with Worship, Gateway Music, Video, Audio, and Broadcast so lighting serves both the room and the broadcast, as well as at all extension campuses
• Supports campus lighting builds, upgrades, and troubleshooting
• Reviews the metrics for the area and makes decisions accordingly
• Is present and serving at weekend services and churchwide events as the ministry calendar requires
• Maintains strong working knowledge of the audio, video, lighting, and control systems at their location, not only the discipline they operate
• Performs routine and preventative maintenance on the systems they work with
• Diagnoses and resolves first-line faults across audio, video, and lighting rather than escalating by default, and escalates with a clear account of what has already been tested
• Keeps system documentation, patch files, and show files current for their location
• Participates in the training provided by the Systems Engineers and maintains the competence level agreed for the role
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Lighting design

Programming & control

Team leadership

Troubleshooting AVL

Budget management

Live production

Cross-campus coordination

Education

Associate degree or equivalent in technical field

Five+ years lighting experience

Broadcast/multi-camera lighting experience

Multisite church experience preferred

Job description

Gateway Church in Texas is seeking a Central Lighting Manager to own lighting design, programming standards, and system health across campuses. You will shape how a service looks, program lighting for ceremonies, and lead the Lighting Operators who execute it.

You will oversee equipment maintenance, budgets, and cross‑campus collaboration with Worship, Video, Audio, and Broadcast teams to ensure the lighting supports both room and broadcast needs.