Senior Audio Visual Installation Technician (Project Documentation Specialty)

Job Posting Title:

Senior Audio Visual Installation Technician (Project Documentation Specialty)

----

Hiring Department:

College of Liberal Arts

----

Position Open To:

All Applicants

----

Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

----

FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

----

Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

----

Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

----

Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

----

Job Details:

General Notes

This position provides life/work balance with a 40-hour, typical work week. Evening, weekend, and holiday hours may be required as project deadlines demand. On-campus work is required. Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship.

Join Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/laits/), a unique and dynamic service department dedicated to creating, maintaining, and promoting technology within the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.

UT Austin offers a competitive benefits package (https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective) that includes:

• 100% employer-paid basic medical coverage for employee
• Optional medical insurance for employee’s dependents - up to 50% employer-paid
• Optional dental, vision, and term life insurance for employees and dependents
• Paid holiday time off each year; state legislature determines the number of holidays
• 12 days of paid vacation time off per year for new employees
• 12 days of paid sick leave per year
• Matching contribution to Teacher Retirement System (TRS)
• Staff Tuition Assistance Program
• Access to Recreation & Health Facilities

Purpose

From basic remodels to large multi-phase capital projects, the LAITS Technology Integration Team works closely with owners, project managers, and architectural designers, to shepherd complex technology projects through consultation, design, purchasing, construction, installation, and commissioning. Our staff also partner with end users and faculty to develop custom control system programming, interfaces, training, and documentation for over six hundred presentation and collaboration systems across campus. Our efforts ensure the successful use of technology to deliver over one hundred and fifty thousand hours of instruction each semester. The Senior Audio Visual Systems Installation Technician position is a critical part of the Technology Integration team. The installation team performs the hardware and physical layer installations that form the foundation of complex, high-quality integrated systems.

Working with the LAITS Technology Integration system designers, the project manager, the work control coordinator, and other both internal and external project resources, this Senior Installation Technician absorbs all details of individual projects prior to construction, generates project documentation, leads junior technicians in the active construction process, leads the system installation closeout process, generates as-built documentation, and assists in team training and building exercises.

Responsibilities

• Performing or supporting senior installation staff when performing the highest level installation work.
• Leading junior installation staff in various, more common installation tasks.
• Responsible for absorbing project details for all incoming projects and generating schematic diagrams and project plans for use by the LAITS Technology Integrations group and to be viewed on delivery of completed systems by partner entities on and off campus.
• Understanding project timelines and generating deliverables accordingly.
• Ensuring that all generated documents are coordinated with the designers and programming team, verifying accuracy and coordinating document reviews prior to distribution.
• Uploading project documentation to project management tools and alerting the leadership team that all documents are ready for construction.
• Performing regular checks in the field to ensure compliance with the issued build documents and quality standards. Coordinate with senior technicians and train junior technician