STAGE MANAGER (AT-WILL) (RE-ISSUE) - City of Torrance

The Department
This position is located in the Department of General Services.  The Department provides quality services that support City departments in a manner which enable them to carry-out their community missions and provide these services in a cost-effective and efficient manner which best serves the operational needs of City departments and the community.

Responsibilities of the General Services Department include: Airport Administration, Building Maintenance, Central Services, Cultural Arts Center Administration, Custodial, Fleet Services, Graffiti Abatement Program, HVAC / Electrical, and Warehouse.

The Division
The Torrance Cultural Arts Center includes the Toyota Meeting Hall, the Torino Festival Plaza, the Ken Miller Assembly Room, the Ken Miller Auditorium, the James R. Armstrong Theatre, the George Nakano Theatre,  the Pine Wind Japanese Garden, the garden rooms, and the Torrance Art Museum. Additionally the Center houses 4 dance studios with sprung hard wood floors, a large ceramics facility, a jewelry making studio, 3 art-making studios, and a music/drama room.  The complex is managed by the City's General Services Department through the Torrance Cultural Arts Center Administrative Offices. 

The Position 
Under direction from the Theater Technical Director, the Stage Manager acts as Stage Supervisor, and as a point of contact for rental clients during rental events. This position delegates and oversees duties of Theater Technicians, and assumes responsibility for set-up, operation, and strike of all staging and related technical equipment to complete a successful operation of rental events. 

The Stage Manager maintains skills and up-to-date knowledge of theater equipment, maintains the theater including light equipment, sound equipment, rigging equipment, fly rail system, and stage, performs maintenance and repair work of all production lighting systems, low-voltage control systems, and various building electrical components, and acts as an advisor to Torrance Cultural Arts Center staff on technical theater related items.

For more information about the duties of the position, click here.