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Position: Resident Technician
Position type: Permanent full-time (40 hours)
Compensation: $46,500 annually plus commensurate benefits
Anticipated start date: March 2025
Reports to: Technical Director

Overview:

The Resident Technician works collaboratively and cross-departmentally to ensure the overall functionality of Fringe Theatre’s performance spaces and facilities. Directly reporting to the Technical Director with additional supervision from the Director of Operations, the Resident Technician implements all production plans to facilitate technical elements for Season productions, rentals, and Fringe Theatre produced events. The Resident Technician works alongside the casual technical roster to provide guidance and offer exceptional care to our clients and guests.

Is it you we’re looking for?

You’re a technical wizard who has experience working in a busy, multi-theatre venue. You have excellent communication skills and are passionate about supporting artists and clients in achieving their production and event goals. You believe in radical hospitality and treat everyone with care and respect. You thrive in a busy, creative environment and relish a workplace where no two days are the same. You love a good challenge and are awesome at meeting deadlines. You are a creative problem solver who enthusiastically works with your teammates to find the best possible solution. You’re a “yes, and” collaborator who brings an open and positive energy to everything you do. You’re not shy about taking initiative and can work independently.

Job Description:

Duties & Responsibilities:
Facility:

• Coordinate with the Technical Director and Engagement Team to establish the needs of each event hosted at the facility;
• Attend production meetings with clients and Engagement Team as needed;
• Set up various seating and stage configurations;
• Set up lighting and sound equipment;
• Operate lighting and sound consoles;
• Rig scenery;
• Assist with set installations on stage;
• Supervise technical staff activities within the facility;
• Liaise with the Front of House staff and coordinate opening and closing of the House;
• Assist Front of House and Security to secure the building at the end of events;
• Implement safety and emergency procedures;
• Support the assessment, inventory, maintenance, and general up-keep of all production areas, facilities, and equipment including scene shop and warehouse;
• Order technical supplies and coordinate rental equipment; and
• Maintain theatrical equipment.

To apply:

Please submit your resume and a cover letter to work@fringetheatre.ca by 5:00PM on February 21, 2025, with “Resident Technician” in the subject line. We thank everyone who applies, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Preference will be given to those candidates with lighting AND audio/visual skills. If you have the drive but not the years’ experience, still throw your hat in the ring. We want to work with someone who wants to learn. We thank everyone who applies, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Why Fringe?

At Fringe Theatre, we foster artists. We nurture audiences. We take chances. Fringe Theatre cultivates safer spaces for brave ideas and big artistic risk.

Since its very beginning, Fringe Theatre has been the meeting place where experience, perspective, diversity, and passion are explored, uplifted, and celebrated. Representation onstage, backstage, in the Front of House and Box Office, in our administrative spaces, and in our mentorship and training programs matters. The future of theatre in Treaty 6 is equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accessible. We believe representation within our organization will lead to greater equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility in our community.

We are a collaborative, playful, creative, hard-working team where big ideas and out-of-the-box approaches are encouraged. Our base of operations is the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns in Edmonton, AB. Our hours of business are typically 10am – 5pm Monday – Friday, though as a busy cultural space supporting more than 500 events year-round and as the producers of the largest, longest running Fringe Theatre Festival in North America, there is an expectation that staff are reasonably available evenings and weekends based on season and Festival event activity.

Employees are expected to uphold and champion Fringe’s Safer Spaces and Anti-Racism programs and abide by our Code of Conduct.