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Job Description / Duties

Intrepid Theatre is hiring a Lead Venue Technician. We’re looking for the right individual to join our Production team on a part-time fixed term contract basis to offer terrific customer service and exceptional technical capabilities to Intrepid Theatre’s Festivals and presentations such as UNO Fest, OUTstages, and the Victoria Fringe Festival, as well as to our rental clients. Reporting to the Production Manager, you would mostly work in the Metro Studio Theatre (a 185-seat black box studio theatre), but occasionally also in the Intrepid Theatre Club (a 50-seat flexible black box), and other off-site venues. Do you love the performing arts? Love greeting clients with a smile and helping them achieve their vision? Love tinkering with gear? Join our collaborative team and be a part of Victoria’s vibrant independent performing arts scene!

We’re looking for a friendly, positive, courteous, and collaborative person with a combination of lighting, audio, staging, and people and leadership skills and experience who is comfortable working as the main (and often only) technician for performances and events. The broad strokes of the role are:

• Customer service -- work with theatre users to achieve their goals, offering advice and assistance so that the shows run smoothly, keeping them on schedule and on budget
• Technical skills – set up and run lighting, sound, and sometimes video playback for a variety of live performances and events; troubleshoot and resolve technical issues
• Administration – work with the Production Manager to advance shows as needed, develop and carry out maintenance and strategic improvement plans; supervise casual stage crew during calls

You can see the detailed job posting and description at https://intrepidtheatre.com/about/job-postings/

Qualifications / Required Skills

• A minimum of 3 years professional working production/technical experience, with experience as a staff venue technician in a road house environment an asset
• A post-secondary degree or diploma related to Production; and/or equivalent professional experience and training in technical theatre, live music, special events, etc.
• Proficiency in operating ETC Element/EOS family consoles; experience programming for theatre, dance, live music, events, etc.
• Solid understanding of basic principles in sound reinforcement for small venues & some experience mixing FOH/Monitors on analog consoles

Please see the detailed posting on our website for a complete list of required skills and qualifications.

Additional Information

Don’t worry if you don’t have every skill covered. We want to work with the right person to grow their abilities and knowledge in all areas and offer them the opportunity to round out their tool kit.

The position is part-time with a 6-month fixed term, with a guaranteed salaried minimum 21 hours/week of straight time; additional hours and overtime are expected but may vary month-to-month.

Intrepid Theatre requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at this time, and the successful candidate will need to show proof of vaccination before an offer of employment is made.

Technical Stage Employees of Intrepid Theatre are represented by IATSE Local 168. The successful LVT candidate must be a member or permittee, or willing to become a permittee of Local 168. Hiring preference will be given to qualified Local 168 members.

Salary: The rate of pay is $20.69/hr plus 4% Vacation Pay until the end of 2021, and is expected to increase in 2022. Vacation pay is paid out each pay period. Paid sick leave is included as a benefit.

Contact Information

To apply, please email your resume and a cover letter or a video or voice recording (5 min. max) outlining how your experience, skills, and abilities make you the ideal candidate to the attention of:

Owen Schellenberger, Production Manager -- owen@intrepidtheatre.com

The deadline for applications is Wednesday, December 15, 2021. We thank all applicants for their interest. Candidates chosen for an interview will be contacted.

Employer Profile

Intrepid Theatre is an independent theatre company that produces the Victoria Fringe Festival, UNO Fest, OUTstages Festival, and various year-round programs that benefit local and emerging artists, and the theatre community at large. We value collaboration and rigour in producing and presenting festivals and supporting new work as much as we do collaboration in our administrative work.

We acknowledge that equity-seeking communities have been excluded from theatre and non-profit spaces in the past and are committed to employment equity and diversity. We encourage applicants from equity-seeking communities and intersecting identities to apply. Intrepid Theatre strongly believes in providing staff with an anti-oppressive work environment free of discrimination and harassment, and fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. See intrepidtheatre.com for more information.