Theater Props Master 2026

Sylvania; Lansing Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 29,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

Waverly Community Schools is seeking a Theater Props Master for the Waverly High School production season. The role spans creation, purchasing, assembling, and organizing properties, with involvement in rehearsals and production meetings.

Flexible schedule includes a minimum of four work days with students during a 10- or 12-week rehearsal period. Responsibilities include supervising student crew, purchasing props from vendors, maintaining schedules, and ensuring safety.

Qualifications

• Experience with art skills such as painting, drawing, or other crafts.
• Experience working with students.

Responsibilities

• Following and enforcing safety procedures and policies.
• Reporting defective and hazardous equipment and conditions.
• Assisting in the supervising of crew work times.
• Clearly communicating a vision to the artistic team.
• Keeping clear documentation of properties.
• Maintaining an updated props schedule or sheet.
• Creating a prop plot for students to read and use.
• Organizing prop tables and storage.
• Purchasing properties: researching vendors, following purchasing procedures, thrifting as able.
• Assembling properties: teaching students to assemble props, painting, cutting, gluing, drawing, or crafting properties.
• Attending production meetings & check-ins as needed.
• Collaborating with the artistic team to solve problems.
• Collaborating with the Theatre & Events Manager to schedule work days with students.
• Creating a positive environment for students to learn.
• Attending rehearsals as needed, supporting student needs.
• Reading and understanding policies and theatre documentation.
• Supporting the production as needed, in collaboration with the Theatre & Events Manager.
• Performing other duties as assigned by the building principal or district administration.

Skills

Communication

Theatre terminology

Reading theatre docs

Team collaboration

Safety awareness

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

WAVERLY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Position Announcement

Job Title: Theater Props Master

Location: Waverly High School

Start Date: August 2026

Salary Range/ Level: $750

Terms of Employment: Fall Production

Date Posted: August 10, 2026

Application Deadline: August 21, 2026

Job Description

Job Summary

These positions are responsible for creating, purchasing, assembling, and organizing the properties for the production for which the individual was hired, fall or spring, respectively. The job title includes involvement in some production phases, including the rehearsal period and production meetings. This position is responsible for following established policies and procedures to make purchases, supervise student crew members, and assist generally with the production. The schedule for this position is flexible, but includes a minimum of four work days with students over the course of a 10 or 12 week rehearsal period.

Essential Job Functions

• Following and enforcing safety procedures and policies.
• Reporting defective and hazardous equipment and conditions.
• Assisting in the supervising of crew work times.
• Clearly communicating a vision to the artistic team.
• Keeping clear documentation of properties.
  • Maintaining an updated props schedule or sheet.
  • Creating a prop plot for students to read and use.
  • Organizing prop tables and storage.
• Purchasing properties.
  • Researching vendors.
  • Following procedures to make purchases with various vendors.
  • Thrifting as able.
• Assembling properties.
  • Teaching students to assemble props.
  • Painting, cutting, gluing, drawing, or otherwise crafting properties as needed.
  • Creative thinking and problem solving.
• Attending production meetings & check-ins as needed.
• Collaborating with the artistic team to solve problems.
• Collaborating with the Theatre & Events Manager to schedule work days with students.
• Creating a positive environment for students to learn.
• Attending rehearsals as needed, making good use of the time to support student needs.
• Reading and understanding policies and theatre documentation.
• Supporting the production as needed, in collaboration with the Theatre & Events Manager.
• Performing other duties as assigned by the building principal or district administration.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Experience with art skills such as painting, drawing, or other crafts.
• Experience working with students.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent oral and written communication and human relations skills.
• Ability to read and write theater documentation.
• Ability to exercise good judgment, resourcefulness, and maintain effective working relationships with staff, students, and the community.
• Working knowledge of theatre terminology.
• Knowledge of computer systems such as Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software programs and their applications.
• Ability to demonstrate the character traits of respect, responsibility, honesty, and caring when interacting with staff, students, and community members.

ADA Requirements

The physical demands, work environment factors, and mental functions described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, hear (in a quiet or noisy environment). Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust/focus.

Work Environment

The noise level in the work environment is typical for a school theater. There can be moments of quiet, or moments of high activity depending on the situation.

Mental Functions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to compare, analyze, communicate both orally and in writing, copy, coordinate, instruct, compute, synthesize, evaluate, use interpersonal skills, compile, and negotiate.

Notice of Non-discrimination

The Waverly Community Schools will not discriminate against any person based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, height, weight, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, veteran, or military status.

Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations: Assistance with the application process may be requested through the Human Resources Department at [phone] or [e-mail].