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Posted: 13-Jun-25
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Internal Number: 169608
Internal Job Number: P05289CT
Description:
This recruitment will be used to fill one full-time, 10-month, Stage Production Coordinator, Lighting Engineer, position for the College of Liberal Arts, at Oregon State University (OSU).
This is a 10-month position that correlates with the PRAx annual season, September-June.
The Lighting Engineer operates prepares, rigs, programs, focuses, and operates lighting fixtures, lightboards, projectors, displays, and related equipment in the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Optimal artistic effect and nuance are paramount. Duties include a mixture of cue-based programming and busking/punting in live concert settings. The Lighting Engineer has significant overall responsibility for the audience and artist experience in a high-end performing arts center that presents 150+ live events per year in a variety of musical genres, theatrical modes, and speaking/lecture contexts. While busking/punting for musical concerts is central to the role and represent one of the high-level artistic skills necessary for the role, the Lighting Engineer also configures lighting and projections technologies outside of the concert venue, including equipment related to gallery installation, immersive art installations, and displays in a variety of locations. The Lighting Engineer works closely with artists, thinks obsessively about the audience experience, expands their skillsets as technologies improve and evolve, and collaborates on a daily basis with production and other staff in PRAx. The position requires a high degree of artistry and musical training/musicality alongside technical skills and expertise, as well as the skills not just to iterate the same tasks day after day but to customize approaches across venues, genres, and the varying artistic goals of each performance.
This is a 10-month position that correlates with the PRAx annual season, September-June.
The Lighting Engineer operates prepares, rigs, programs, focuses, and operates lighting fixtures, lightboards, projectors, displays, and related equipment in the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Optimal artistic effect and nuance are paramount. Duties include a mixture of cue-based programming and busking/punting in live concert settings. The Lighting Engineer has significant overall responsibility for the audience and artist experience in a high-end performing arts center that presents 150+ live events per year in a variety of musical genres, theatrical modes, and speaking/lecture contexts. While busking/punting for musical concerts is central to the role and represent one of the high-level artistic skills necessary for the role, the Lighting Engineer also configures lighting and projections technologies outside of the concert venue, including equipment related to gallery installation, immersive art installations, and displays in a variety of locations. The Lighting Engineer works closely with artists, thinks obsessively about the audience experience, expands their skillsets as technologies improve and evolve, and collaborates on a daily basis with production and other staff in PRAx. The position requires a high degree of artistry and musical training/musicality alongside technical skills and expertise, as well as the skills not just to iterate the same tasks day after day but to customize approaches across venues, genres, and the varying artistic goals of each performance.
Minimum Qualifications (Staff) / Guidelines (Faculty):
Three years of experience as a stage hand; OR An Associate's degree in Stage Management and at least one year of experience as a stage hand; OR An equivalent combination of training and experience demonstrating possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of this classification.
Requirements :
- Experience in music, arts, theatre, lighting, production, or related field or equivalent professional experience
- Experience running lights, projection, and related technologies, achieved in academic or professional contexts
- Demonstrated musical knowledge/musicality through any combination of degrees, life experiences, or professional employment
- Demonstrated experience busking/punting lights for a variety for a genres
- Ability to operate QLab, ETC Ion XE light consoles, and theatrical/performance lighting fixtures by various manufacturers and in various styles
- Record of actively contributing to a respectful, safe, and inclusive work environment.
Type:
This position operates on a concert venue schedule, which includes frequent evening and weekend work. Work weeks vary considerably based on concert schedule, but often default to Tuesday-Saturday or Wednesday-Sunday. The ability to move lighting equipment around the venue, including up to 60+' overhead on catwalks and tension grids and on scissor lifts or ladders, is required, as is lifting up to forty pounds.
About Oregon State University
Oregon State is a leading research university located in one of the safest, smartest, greenest small cities in the nation. Situated 90 miles south of Portland, and an hour from the Cascades or the Pacific Coast, Corvallis is the perfect home base for exploring Oregon's natural wonders. Oregon State University has always been a place with a purpose - making a positive difference in quality of life, natural resources and economic prosperity in Oregon and beyond. Through discovery, innovation and application, we are meeting challenges, solving problems and turning ideas into reality.Founded in 1868, Oregon State is the state's Land Grant university and is one of only two universities in the U.S. to have Sea Grant, Space Grant and Sun Grant designations. Oregon State is also the only university in Oregon to hold both the Carnegie Foundation's top designation for research institutions and its prestigious Community Engagement classification.As Oregon's leading public research university, with $261.7 million in external funding in the 2011 fiscal year, Oregon State's impact reaches across the state and beyond. With 12 colleges, 15 Agricultural Experiment Stations, 35 county Extension off...ices, the Hatfield Marine Sciences Center in Newport and OSU-Cascades in Bend, Oregon, State has a presence in every one of Oregon's 36 counties, with a statewide economic footprint of $2.06 billion. Oregon State welcomes a diverse student body of over 26,000 students from across Oregon, all 50 states and more than 100 countries. They can choose from more than 200 undergraduate and more than 80 graduate degree programs, including over 30 degrees online offered through Oregon State Ecampus. Oregon State increasingly attracts high-achieving students, with nationally recognized programs in areas such as conservation biology, agricultural sciences, nuclear engineering, forestry, fisheries and wildlife management, community health, pharmacy and zoology. Oregon State also ranks high in sustainability, fourth among universities nationwide for using renewable energy and first in the Pac-12 Conference. And our students literally help power the university: 22 exercise machines at Oregon State University has always been a place with a purpose - making a positive difference in quality of life, natural resources and economic prosperity in Oregon and beyond. Through discovery, innovation and application, we are meeting challenges, solving problems and turning ideas into reality. For more information visit http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/index.cfm.The 400-acre main campus in Corvallis includes a Historic District, making Oregon State one of only a handful of U.S. university campuses listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes such icons as Weatherford Hall, the Memorial Union and Benton Hall, the oldest building on the oldest building on campus.OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.
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