Overview
About PRG Production Resource Group (PRG) unites exceptional people and deep production expertise to bring ambitious creative visions to life. As a global production partner across Music & Live TV, Corporate Events & Brand Experiences, TV & Film, Broadway and Sports, we deliver more than 5,000 events a year from 33 locations. Our teams cover lighting, audio, video, LED, camera, rigging, scenic, automation, broadcast and crew, so wherever you start at PRG, you’ll work alongside specialists in every production discipline. Projects range from a single rental to fully integrated productions, and with a presence across five continents, there’s plenty of room to grow. At PRG, our people make it possible. Whatever your role, your work shows up in what audiences experience on stage, on screen and beyond.
Responsibilities
Summary/objective
Position requires knowledge of multiple disciplines. The Team Leader must be able to continually switch job responsibilities and maintain the product quality and schedule. Bulk of time is spent laying out a design that can be easily implemented with emphasis on being able to take work performed on earlier projects and both re-use and streamline new designs to produce a better product for less cost. Responsible for the final Quality Control Check of all products within discipline that leave the building and supporting all those products in the field.
Supervisory responsibilities
Coordination of team members and maintain schedules
Essential functions
- Interface with Designers, Engineers, and Production staff to offer suggestions that deliver upon the designer’s intent.
- Bid/Design/Order/Assemble/Test products within assigned discipline.
- Interface with Project Management and Operations Management to establish and meet project deadlines.
- Provide ongoing support to existing base of designs.
- Provide direction and supervision to assigned shop personnel.
- Design schematics capable of being fabricated in-house or outsourced.
- Travel into the field to startup and commission products, as required.
- Assist in the research and implementation of new products within discipline.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Extensive knowledge of products and solutions used in discipline
- Microsoft suite of Office products
- Able to lead a team
- Communication to members of team and management staff
Physical Demands
- Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Specific vision abilities for this job may include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust and focus, with or without the use of glasses or contact lenses.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to follow spots and moving lights, loud noises, fumes, or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration.
- Ability to lift, push, pull, and/or carry objects up to 75 pounds, as necessary.
- Must be able to communicate effectively by listening and in both written and verbal forms.
- Must be able to work in various weather and temperature conditions to include extreme heat, humidity and cold.
Travel required
- Less than 25% of the time. Occasional presence needed on show site.
- Must have valid Driver’s License
Required education and experience
- 5 years designing solutions within discipline
- BS Technical Theatre or Engineering, or equivalent experience
- CAD fluent
EEO and Disclosure
PRG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. PRG is a drug-free work environment, pre-employment testing will be required.
This is a safety sensitive position and will require pre-employment drug screening.
Production Resource Group LLC participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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