Instrument Technician/Music Librarian

Instrument Technician/Music Librarian

Dance, Music, and Theater

Job #550063

First Review Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Open Until Filled

 

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(Job #550063) Instructional Support Assistant III, Instrument Technician/Music Librarian, Salary Range: $3,278 - $5,566; Hiring Range: $3,771 . This is a full-time, benefited, non-exempt, 12-month pay plan permanent position with a one-year probationary period in Dance, Music and Theater. This position comes with a premium benefits package that includes outstanding vacation, medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, voluntary pre-tax health and dependent care reimbursement accounts, a fee waiver education program, membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), and 14 paid holidays per year. Additional benefits information can be found at https://hraps.humboldt.edu/employee-benefits.

 

Position Summary:

The person in this position is responsible for the 1) Music department’s band and orchestral instrument collection, with emphasis on instrument check-out and return, inventory, insurance, maintenance, repair, transportation, and storage (including the department’s storage lockers), AND for maintaining the Music Department Ensemble Library according to Music Department library policies with emphasis on cataloging new acquisitions, overseeing circulation of music library materials, repairing damaged materials, planning for replacement of missing materials, and regularly shelf-reading the collection. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

Oversight and accountability for all musical instruments – 20%

1. Prepares and issues all musical instruments and accessories to students and faculty.
2. Maintains computerized database inventory of instruments and accessories.
3. Performs periodic inventory review to meet insurance requirements. 
4. Ensures that instruments and equipment are returned.
5. Requests charges to students’ accounts if items are not returned or when instruments are checked out over breaks.

 

Oversight and accountability for locker usage – 5%

1. Maintains locker inventory, repairs, and/or modifies lockers to accommodate special storage needs. 
2. Assigns locks and lockers to students based on instrument need.
3. Prepares locker lists in support of numerous summer workshops.

 

Instrument repair – 15%

1. Completes minor repairs of wind, percussion, and string instruments.
2. Performs periodic evaluations of the state of maintenance of instruments.  Repairs instruments that are not in playing condition or consults with faculty and program leaders to make plans for needed off-campus repair.
3. Oversees transportation of instruments to outside repairers.   
4. As part of annual inventory, presents information to program leader about needs for replacement of worn-out instruments and cases, etc. 
5. Maintains inventory of specialized repair tools, replacement parts, and instrument accessories. 
6. Prepares annual budget and purchasing requests for consumable instrument accessories (such as strings, reeds, rosin, cork grease, cleaning cloths, valve oil, shoulder pads, etc.)
7. At the request of faculty, de