Film Preservation and Imaging Supervisor

Company

MEMNON ARCHIVING SERVICES Inc.

1180 S. Liberty Dr. Suite 360, Bloomington, IN 47403, USA

Memnon is a worldwide leading provider of services to digitize, migrate, preserve, monetize, and provide access to audiovisual (Audio, Video, Film, and Images) recordings of any format and data formats. We work for the biggest names in media, broadcast, cultural institutions, national libraries, universities, businesses, governments, and international organizations.

Role Profile

The role of the Film Preservation and Imaging Supervisor within Memnon is to ensure the daily production activities within the film and imaging lab are running efficiently and effectively in effort to meet company goals. This includes team training and development, hands-on production work, quality control, and interface activities with management, clients, and vendors.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Assure contractual obligations and specifications for all clients are followed to produce deliverables that meet client needs.
• Review and prepare incoming film & imaging project manifests and objects to ensure their readiness for preservation production activities.
• Prescribe new and improved procedures and standards for all film & imaging preservation-related activities as necessary to improve lab production and/or satisfy client needs. This includes drafting and publishing training materials.
• Perform training sessions and demonstrations with staff in effort to enable them to perform high-quality lab work. This includes an understanding of film formats, codecs, metadata, Memnon film & imaging workflows, and the necessary considerations for handling materials that pose various preservation challenges.
• Perform highest-level inspection, repair, and digitization of 8mm, Super8, 16mm, and 35mm films, including gathering accurate and representative metadata descriptions of all objects.
• Perform and supervise post-production work on digitized film & image files, including color-correction, cropping and framing, speed adjustments, orientation adjustments, and audio synchronization/conformation.
• Perform quality control (QC) analysis of files prior to delivery to ensure that each file meets the technical requirements and quality specifications established in the relevant client contract.
• Ensure completed preserved film and imaged objects are prepared for return to the client in desired condition.
• Consult with the Operations Senior Supervisor to establish production goals and formalize production-tracking systems. Subsequently, direct and adapt lab activities as needed to ensure that production goals will be successfully met.
• Provide physical organization of the film & imaging lab environment including the movement of objects between work areas and storage so they can be worked on.
• Work with Memnon sales and management staff to advise on proposals for potential clients; this includes advising Memnon and potential clients as to the implications of client requests, as well as suggesting improvements/alterations to proposals where necessary to ensure favorable arrangements by which clients’ ultimate needs can be met in a realistic and financially responsible fashion.
• Provide film & imaging-related insight to Memnon and ES Media Group as requested to help establish policies and tools to inform the company-wide approach to film preservation and sales, both within and outside the United States.
• Maintain correspondence with clients while preservation work is underway to satisfy any questions pertaining to quality-of-work and preservation procedure, and/or to inform clients of unforeseen circumstances which need a client-approved resolution before work can proceed on a given film or collection.
• Work with the Operations Senior Supervisor and Production Manager to hire and onboard new film & imaging lab staff as necessary to meet production goals.
• Maintain and calibrate all film & imaging lab equipment including splicers, inspection benches, film scanners and copy stands. Coordinate with Memnon Studio Maintenance Technician and equipment vendors, vendors (e.g. Laser Graphics) to seek assistance in performing necessary maintenance when needed.
• Track the lab’s inventory of consumable/disposable supplies place orders for more as necessary.

Reporting line

·        You’ll report to the Operations Manager

·        You’ll work closely with the Film and Imaging Digitization Process Operators, Sales Operations Manager, Production Coordinator, Department Supervisors, and Engineering team.

Location

·        Bloomington, IN, USA

Profile required

Education and Experience

• At least Bachelor or 3 years of equivalent experience.
• Preferred: interest for/knowledge of audio/video/film technologies
• Work in a broadcasting, digitization facility or library/archive
• Knowledge of AV and IT

Profile - Soft skills

·        Planning & Organization: Strong organizational skills

·        Technical: Working knowledge of audio/video/film technologies

·        Addressing operational concerns and issues, monitoring overall customer satisfaction

·        Analyze training needs and requirements

·        Strong interpersonal skills

·        Effective communication

·        Teamwork and cooperation

·        Service Focus

·        Objective driven

·        Conscientious

·        Eager to learn about relevant technologies old and new

·        Enthusiastic, postivie

Language skills

·        Fluent in English.

Type of contract

·        Hourly position (rate based upon experience)

Applications:

·        Cover letter resume john.macdonald@memnon.com