Church Lighting Director & Systems Lead

Gateway Community & Technical College; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateway Church is seeking a Central Lighting Manager to own lighting design, programming standards, and system health across campuses. This role leads Lighting Operators and collaborates with Worship, Video, Audio, and Broadcast to ensure lighting supports both the room and broadcast experiences.

The position requires deep technical knowledge, leadership ability, and strong budgeting skills to guide equipment lifecycle and capital requests.

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
• 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

Team leadership

Live production

Troubleshooting

Budget management

Coordination

Communication

Microsoft Office

Lighting consoles

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Five+ years lighting experience

Tools

Lighting consoles

Networking hardware

Show control software

Job description

Gateway Church is seeking a Central Lighting Manager to own lighting design, programming standards, and system health across campuses. This role leads Lighting Operators and collaborates with Worship, Video, Audio, and Broadcast to ensure lighting supports both the room and broadcast experiences.

The position requires deep technical knowledge, leadership ability, and strong budgeting skills to guide equipment lifecycle and capital requests.