Technical Production Lead, Performing Arts Center

The California State University; San Bernardino (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The California State University is seeking a Technical Production Lead (Performing Arts Technician III) for the San Bernardino Campus. The role provides technical leadership for a 478-seat performing arts venue, coordinating staff, students, visiting artists, and third-party crews to ensure safe, high-quality productions and events.

Evening, weekend, and irregular hours are expected as needed. Responsibilities include scheduling, crew assignment, equipment assessment, safety compliance, on-site

Responsibilities

• Coordinate PAC productions, performances, special events, and maintenance periods by managing technical schedules, facility use, priorities, and resource needs.
• Provide technical leadership and work direction to staff, student assistants, interns, visiting artists, and third-party personnel.
• Assign crew responsibilities based on production needs and skill levels while monitoring work quality and safety.
• Provide technical directions for lighting, rigging, audio, video, projection, staging, and related production systems.
• Review technical riders and assess requested equipment, staffing, budget, facility, and operational requirements.
• Identify limitations, recommend modifications, develop alternatives, and elevate needs that exceed available resources or authority.
• Coordinate advanced production planning with production managers, rental clients, visiting artists, faculty, designers, department leadership, and University partners.
• Evaluate the technical feasibility of productions, concerts, readings, outreach programs, rentals, and special events.
• Lead production meetings and communicate schedules, timelines, technical requirements, crew assignments, and event plans.
• Provide on-site leadership during load-ins, rehearsals, performances, strikes, and load-outs.
• Resolve technical and operational issues during events and provide evening, weekend, and irregular-schedule coverage as needed.
• Apply SOPs, Cal/OSHA requirements, CSU and campus safety standards, equipment specifications, and theatrical industry practices.
• Conduct or coordinate equipment inspections, safety training, hazard assessments, and corrective actions.
• Stop or modify unsafe activities and report significant or unusual safety concerns to the appropriate authority.
• Operate, inspect, troubleshoot, maintain, and repair specialized theatrical equipment and systems.
• Perform technical work at elevated heights using appropriate lifts, ladders, scaffolding, fall-protection equipment, and safety procedures.
• Safely lift, move, and transport equipment, scenery, materials, and counterweights weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Maintain knowledge of lighting, rigging, audio, video, scenic systems, QLab, Vectorworks, and related production technologies.
• Coordinate equipment maintenance, repair, replacement, inventory, lifecycle tracking, and storage organization.
• Train authorized personnel on equipment operation, safety requirements, and standard operating procedures.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including ground plans, lighting plots, equipment inventories, manuals, production records, and SOPs.
• Handle and dispose of specialized theatrical materials in accordance with Environmental Health and Safety procedures.
• Operate authorized campus utility vehicles to transport equipment, tools, and supplies.
• Develop production budgets and cost estimates and identify cost-effective vendors, services, equipment, and supplies.
• Review timesheets and production settlement documents for accuracy and coordinate corrections.
• Maintain accurate production, facility, maintenance, and event information in the PAC Master Calendar.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Job description

The California State University is seeking a Technical Production Lead (Performing Arts Technician III) for the San Bernardino Campus. The role provides technical leadership for a 478-seat performing arts venue, coordinating staff, students, visiting artists, and third-party crews to ensure safe, high-quality productions and events.

Evening, weekend, and irregular hours are expected as needed. Responsibilities include scheduling, crew assignment, equipment assessment, safety compliance, on-site