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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.

• 45% Prepare Stage and Event Equipment
• 35% Conduct Live Concert, Performance, and Event Operations
• 10% Upskilling and Professional Development
• 10% Training In-House Staff

• 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.