The Live Production Team is responsible for supporting and facilitating in-person rehearsals, performances, and recording sessions. Ensure facilities and equipment are prepared and available as needed. The team consists of several different roles, which will be assigned based on each individual's strengths, experiences, and interests. In the pre-screening questions of this application, please select which roles you are most interested in.
Full-time summer employment contracts range from 8 -16 weeks, May through September. Post-secondary students are welcomed and encouraged to apply for this position as part of their program requirements for a co-op or work placement. Contracts are funded by the Government of Canada, and offered at the Ontario minimum wage.
During the rehearsal period, the live production team will be required to support a rehearsal schedule based in Barrie, ON at our studio and at the local theatre. When you are not directly supporting a rehearsal, you will be training through a variety of methods, which typically involves job shadowing professional technical personnel, completing online learning modalities and/or researching equipment. The location for training activity is in your project constituency. Some training will take place with our production team directly.
Positions:
Stage Manager/Assistant Stage Manager
Stage Managers provide indispensable practical and organizational support to directors, performers, designers, and technical crew throughout the production and rehearsal process, and supervise onstage and backstage activity during performances to make sure the show goes off without a hitch. They facilitate communication across all creative and technical departments; act as a right hand to the director; oversee sets, props, lights, and sound; and call all technical cues during performances and assisting with a variety of clerical duties.
Playback Engineer
Playback Engineer works in Ableton Live working with click, cue, and stem tracks for rehearsals and performances. Must have a high level of musicality and confidence.
Production Assistant
Production Assistants prepare schedules and budgets, secure and set up equipment, make travel arrangements, relay messages between the crew and performers, and other duties related to the broadcasting and production of technical rehearsals and performances.
Wardrobe Attendant
Wardrobe Attendants maintain and coordinate all wardrobe elements before, during, and after technical rehearsals and live events, and assists cast as needed to facilitate high calibre performances.
A/V Technician
A/V Technicians provide expanded support for sound reinforcement, lighting, computer, and audio-visual support, as well as logistical and operational support to rehearsals and live events. Facilitate all the technical aspects and support required to mount the production onstage, including the operation and maintenance of lighting, sound, and related equipment and systems used in support of stage productions and stage management.
Craft Services
Craft Services ensures food safety standards at all times backstage. Attention to detail for food temperatures and time is critical. If you are not already a certified food handler in the province of Ontario, training and certification will be provided.
Personnel Manager
Personnel Manager is responsible for scheduling cast and approving the crew schedule. Using Master Tour Software they will provide both real-time updates and advances for all persons on the tour. Payroll approval will be completed daily to ensure processing is on schedule. This role is a representative of the Human Resources Team and is in-person at rehearsals and on the road.
Typical Work Hours
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Any additional documentation (e.g., your own past projects or school assignments) should be included via the pre-screening box Additional Documentation. Please utilize a Google Drive, Dropbox, or equivalent platform to link these files (for preview in browser) to ensure that hiring staff can open the files.
Applications are only accepted via our branded GetHired portal. All pre-screening questions must be completed. If you have found this job posting on a website other than GetHired, visit https://CanadianMusicians.coop and click on the Summer Employment Opportunities button in the top right corner of the page to access the application portal and the full list of open positions.
The Co-op seeks individuals who enjoy collaboration, creativity, learning new skills, and engaging with artists and the community. This position includes some evenings and weekends as scheduled.
To have your application successfully advance to screening, please ensure you complete all pre-interview questions.
Following our initial screening, applicants may be invited to a formal job interview. Interviews take place in March/April onwards until positions are filled.
We thank you for your interest in Canadian Musicians Co-operative and submitting your application. Only those candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.
