Rental Shop Internship
Paid position. Summer position in busy rental shop to gain hands on experience maintaining equipment, preparing shop orders, helping with load ins/outs, etc. Limelight is located in the culturally-rich Berkshires, home to many world renowned theatres and summer festivals, many of whom are Limelight clients. (This internship position provides a salary, but does not include housing.)
Responsibilities
- Assist with maintaining equipment in the rental shop inventory including cleaning, repairs, tuning, etc
- Pulling and prepping rental shop orders
- Checking in rental returns, accurately accounting for equipment and accessories
- Communicating any issues with orders going out or being returned in a timely fashion including missing or damaged equipment, parts and accessories
- Maintaining clean and safe working and storage facilities
- Loading and unloading equipment
- Assisting with on site load-ins/load-outs, equipment set up and operation for customer events as needed
- Assisting with the delivery and installation of rigging and lighting equipment as needed
Applicant should have some prior experience working with stage lighting and related equipment, as well as basic computer literacy and good communications skill.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience in technical theatre
- A basic technical theatre vocabulary
- Basic familiarity with industry-standard equipment
- Demonstrated mechanical and technical aptitude
- Enthusiasm for learning and growing
- Ability to work with a range of personalities
- A flexible, team-oriented, “can-do” attitude
- Ability to lift 50lbs is required.
Pluses
- Current valid drivers license
To apply
Send letter and resume, including 3 work-related references to:
Human Resources
Limelight Productions, Inc.
471 Pleasant Street
Lee, MA 01238
or via email (MS Word docs or pdfs accepted as attachments) to hr@limelightproductions.com
For more information about Limelight visit www.limelightproductions.com