Position Title: Production Manager
Department Name: Creative/Production
Organizational Level: Professional
Reports to: Production Director
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Full/Part time: Full-time
Salary Range: $54k - $60k annualized
Date: December 2025
Essential Functions:
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Serve as floor director during weekend services, calling cues and ensuring all production elements run smoothly.
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Work with Production team to coordinate volunteer recruitment, scheduling, onboarding, and coaching across audio, video, and lighting role.
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Prepare auditoriums, classrooms, and student spaces for services and events; ensure equipment is updated, labeled, clean, and fully functional.
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Maintain production supplies (batteries, gaff tape, etc.) and oversee storage organization.
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Perform quarterly preventative maintenance and basic troubleshooting on production equipment and systems.
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Manage content transfers and playback preparation for weekend and student services.
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Complete weekly quality reports on services and events.
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Acts as a primary point of contact for ministry staff regarding day-to-day production scheduling and service execution needs, escalating broader system, staffing, or budgetary needs to the Production Director.
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Support campus-wide events and assist with core production projects.
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Attend staff meetings, production meetings, debriefs, and additional meetings as required.
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Perform other duties, as needed.
Time Requirements:
This position will be completed in 40+ hours per week. This position will require flexibility as there will be weekdays, weekends, evenings and holiday time expectations that vary through the weeks.
Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office and church environment and uses standard production equipment including audio consoles, video switchers, lighting consoles, and related AVL tools.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear and frequently required to sit and/or stand for sustained periods of time; lift, push, pull items in excess of 50 lbs; walk and reach with hands and arms.
This description indicates the general level and nature of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Requirements:
Professional/Education
- Bachelor’s, Associate’s, or Technical degree in a relevant field and 2+ years’ experience, OR 4+ years’ experience in live production environments.
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Leadership experience in training, managing, and mentoring volunteers.
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Organizational skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving ability.
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Experience with stage management procedures, safety standards, and equipment load-in/load-out.
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Ability to manage confidentiality in all aspects of job.
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Excellent operational knowledge in at least one production discipline (audio, video, or lighting). Primary experience in lighting preferred (Experience with GrandMA3 preferred).
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Other experience in any of the following areas preferred: DiGiCo, Yamaha, Waves SoundGrid, Absen, Green Hippo, Pro Presenter.
Spiritual
- A passion to see people come to know, love, and follow Christ.
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A passionate desire to see people come to know, love and follow Christ in the context of real community.
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In agreement with Southeast’s Statement of Beliefs, Values, Mission and Vision.
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Desires to know and love God and wants to be used by God.
Personal
- Humble, credible, trustworthy, and a self-starter.
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Dependable, teachable, and proactive with a servant’s heart.
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Values excellence while maintaining humility, positivity, and flexibility.
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Relational and team-oriented with a desire to disciple and develop others.
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Demonstrates wise judgment in decision-making.
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Ability to live in and cultivate biblical community.
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Champions the vision, mission, and values of the church and staff. Values the culture of Southeast Christian Church.
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Adhere to Southeast’s Staff Values:
- We listen, live, and love like Jesus: we prioritize and nurture our relationship with Jesus; we seek to grow as his disciples; we demonstrate his love through our actions, worship, generosity, and obedience.
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We value relationships and teamwork: we see people as opportunities, not as inconveniences; we resist silos; we take care of ourselves and each other; we lean into accountability; we engage in hard conversations and assume the best.
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We value integrity in all aspects of life: we strive to live out God’s standards, not our own; we don’t cut corners; we give our best and pursue excellence in all we do; we honor God with our bodies; we are honest and upright.
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We have a solutions-focused mindset: we look for solutions when problems arise; we are willing to help, even when it’s “not our job”; we find the win, even when the answer is “no.”
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We don’t take ourselves too seriously: we have fun; we practice humility and appreciate appropriate humor; we celebrate; we choose positivity and encouragement.
Competencies:
Plans and Aligns; Directs Work; Communicates Effectively; Builds Effective Teams; Resourcefulness; Situational Adaptability; Tech Savvy; Instills Trust
Summary/Objective:
The Production Manager supports the Production Director by managing the day-to-day operations of the Production Department. The role ensures excellent execution of weekend services, student gatherings, and special events by leading volunteer teams, coordinating technical coverage, and maintaining production systems during all services and events.
