Position Description
Wartburg College
Title: Director of Production Operations
Preparation Date: April 2024

Function of Position:
This position reports to the Chief Information Officer and is responsible for professionally managing
events and spaces, including lighting, sound, video, staging, rigging, staffing, FOH, and other needs,
in Neumann Auditorium, McCaskey Lyceum, and other non‐classroom locations on campus. This is
an administrative position with a significant number of variable hours based on event schedules
including night and weekend hours. This is a full‐time position (12 months).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Serve as technical director for all events in campus performance spaces (Neumann

Auditorium, McCaskey Lyceum, and other campus locations) providing leadership and
direction for staging, lighting, sound, rigging, video, set up, tear down, storage of all
equipment, staffing, budget management, technical rider review, scheduling,
supervising, and front of house support. (40%)

2. Select, hire, train, schedule, and supervise student staff in lighting, sound, staging,
rigging, video, stage management, and front of house. (10%)

3. Serve as lighting designer, sound engineer, video designer, and/or stage manager for in‐
house performances while overseeing all technical aspects of the production process.
(10%)

4. Work with campus events coordinator to effectively schedule performance spaces. (10%)
5. Recommend updates to equipment to ensure safety of all performance spaces.

Understand all regulatory requirements and safety practices, including OSHA
requirements. Recommend changes to meet these requirements as needed. Perform
necessary repairs/replacements or send out to appropriate service center. (5%)

6. Maintain inventory of all technical equipment used in performance spaces, ballrooms,
chapel, and athletic venues and ensure that all are kept in good repair. Perform
necessary repairs or send out to appropriate service center. (10%)

7. Correct and annotate student worker hours to provide detailed billing statements to
clients. (8%)

8. Create emergency plans for varied incidents (natural and manmade). Accounting for
emergency, audience size, and time of year conditions. (5%)

9. Keep up to date on new technical advances. (2%)

Supervision:
Employee is responsible for determining own work assignments referring to policies and general
objectives for guidance. Employee prioritizes own work and resolves all but the most unusual issues
without consultation with supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in technical directing, lighting, or sound (preferred).
o Practical experience accepted.

2. Two years of experience working in theatre production.
3. Experience with arena sound design.
4. Ability to manage a theatre and production crew using industry standard practices.
5. Ability to plan for and manage multiple concurrent events.

6. Knowledge and training in theatre practices including lighting, audio, video design, and
rigging systems.

7. Evening and weekend work expected.
8. Ability to work at heights up to 50 feet.
9. Supervisory experience preferred.

Application Procedure:
Send letter of interest, including a statement regarding qualities you offer within the context of the
Wartburg College mission, résumé, and contact information for three references electronically to:
hr@wartburg.edu. See www.wartburg.edu for further information about the college. Screening
begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

WARTBURG COLLEGE is a selective liberal arts college of the ELCA, nationally recognized for
community engagement. As an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution, Wartburg College

actively seeks applications from members of underrepresented ethnic and minority groups.