Warehouse Lead - Lighting Department
About The Position
The Warehouse Lead - Lighting Department is the technical subject matter expert responsible for the organization, readiness, and technical accuracy of all lighting equipment within the production warehouse. This role does not have direct reports, but provides technical leadership and guidance to warehouse team members during pulling, staging, QC, and show preparation. The Warehouse Lead - Lighting Department ensures lighting fixtures, consoles, networking equipment, dimming, control systems, power-related components, and accessories are properly configured, tested, addressed, and ready for live event deployment.
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional lighting, live event production, AV production, or production warehouse experience
- Strong understanding of lighting systems, fixture types, control protocols, addressing, patching, and signal flow
- Experience with DMX, sACN, Art-Net, lighting consoles, data distribution, dimming, and fixture configuration
- Familiarity with lighting networking and troubleshooting
- Basic understanding of power distribution and safe electrical practices
- Ability to troubleshoot lighting systems and identify technical issues quickly
- Strong organizational skills and ability to maintain department-specific equipment standards
- Ability to communicate clearly with warehouse, production, and technical team members
- Comfortable serving as a technical lead without direct people management responsibilities
- Experience in a fast-paced live event production environment
Responsibilities
- Validate lighting show packages for completeness, compatibility, and show-specific requirements.
- Address, patch, and prepare fixtures or lighting systems as required for show readiness.
- Support lighting data distribution and network setup and validation, including DMX, sACN, Art-Net, and related control protocols.
- Identify missing, damaged, incomplete, or incorrectly configured lighting equipment and communicate issues to the Warehouse Manager or Technical Services team.
- Promote safe equipment handling, proper power/data practices, and careful packing of fixtures and control equipment.
- Maintain organization, accuracy, and readiness standards for lighting inventory within the warehouse.
- Help establish and maintain prep standards, labeling practices, fixture organization and equipment storage methods.
- Assist with cross-department warehouse work when needed while maintaining primary ownership of lighting readiness.
- Provide technical guidance to Warehouse Technicians during lighting equipment return, QC, and prep.
- Assist in ongoing training and development of operations staff when necessary.
- Ensure the organizational QC standards are being met.
- Monitor recurring equipment issues and recommend repairs, process improvements, or inventory adjustments.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
