Position: Full-Time Maintenance / Ancillary Crew Chief Stagehand (Local One)
Department: Performance and Campus Operations
Role Overview: Full-Time Maintenance / Ancillary Crew Chief Stagehand for David Geffen Hall, performing electrical maintenance and leading crews in assigned spaces. This is a union-represented position and employees are required to join IATSE Local One.
Performance and Campus Operations department members work together across disciplines to successfully execute events and performances that encompass nearly every artistic form and genre. This includes everything from free educational and community-based programming to large-scale, multi-day, corporate activations of Lincoln Center's venues. The team also serves the Lincoln Center constituent organizations and helps bring their work to life on stage and around the campus.
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What you'll get to do here:
- Perform electrical maintenance work in all spaces in David Geffen Hall, excluding the auditorium and the stage.
- May provide support for events in the Sidewalk Studio, Patron Lounge and Donor Lounge.
- Interface with building engineers and outside vendors.
- Regularly meet with the Production team to plan logistics, staffing requirements, and schedule.
Qualifications:
- Highly proficient with building electrical systems, architectural lighting controls, architectural and theatrical lighting.
- Understand electrical code and best practices; ability to read electrical plans.
- Experience working with audio, video, networking/IT, backline, and staging.
- 5 + years of relevant experience.
- Recent, successful experience leading multi-disciplinary crews on events.
- Demonstrable ability to communicate clearly and consistently with management, supervisors and colleagues both verbally and in writing.
Additional Requirements:
- Position uses ladders and mechanical lifts.
- Use of a variety of electrical, battery-operated and manual hand tools.
- Able to climb stairs, traverse elevated catwalks, walkways, and on a variety of surfaces including wood, stone, steel and concrete.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds routinely.
- Work in closely confined spaces low to the ground.
- Frequent bending, twisting, and extending of arms above the head to perform work and support weight.
What is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) is the world's leading performing arts center in the heart of New York City. In these times of heightened anxiety and vigilance, we are holding on to the important role the arts play in our lives: they nourish our hearts and minds, teach us valuable lessons and critical skills, and help us create community. We are resolved not to lose sight of what connects us, and we hope you will consider joining our talented, diverse team.
We are:
1. The manager of the Lincoln Center Campus.
-We are part of 16 acres of activity and one of eleven amazing resident organizations
2. A leading Arts Presenter.
-We curate a number of series showcasing music, dance, and theater
3. An Education Hub.
-We have reached 20 million students, educators, principals, and community members
Who are our people?
Lincoln Center is a diverse team of dreamers, collaborators, and entrepreneurs who use unique platforms in the heart of New York City and beyond to advocate for the transformative impact of artistic experiences.
Lincoln Center People imagine and create in concert with this mission by founding President John D. Rockefeller III - "The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center."
Lincoln Center welcomes applicants from all sectors who agilely solve problems, show up as they are, and can't stop innovating.
What's the news?
Get Ready for ‘Summer for the City'
- Lincoln Center's Summer Festival to Focus on Civic Bonds
- Lincoln Center announces free shows and concerts for 3rd annual 'Summer for the City'
- Lincoln Center's ‘Summer For The City' Fest Returns This June With 200+ Fun, Free Events
- Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center Is Set
Campus Happenings
- Earth month brings music outside at Lincoln Center
- 'Rent' Is Coming Back To New York In A Uniquely Reimagined Form
- Chef Kwame Onwuachi Explores His Roots, and His New York Upbringing, at Tatiana
- Henry Timms Wants to Tear Down Walls at Lincoln Center
Legacies of San Juan Hill
- Before Lincoln Center, San Juan Hill Was a Vibrant Black Community
- Lincoln Center Launches San Juan Hill Project Digital Hub To Remember the Lost Urban Neighborhood
- Lincoln Center lanza plataforma para rescatar la cultura de un barrio negro
- Chef Kwame Onwuachi Explores His Roots, and His New York Upbringing, at Tatiana
Who is our President and CEO?
Henry Timms is the co-founder of #GivingTuesday and the co-author of New Power.
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It is the policy of Lincoln Center to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, marital or civil partnership/union status, familial or caregiver status, alienage or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, military or veteran status, genetic information, predisposition, or carrier status, unemployment status, domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking victim status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. LCPA is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.