Photography Lab Assistant (Part-time)

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Job Title: Photography Lab Assistant (PT)

Department: Photography

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Reports to: Manager, Photography

Union: NA

Grade: 4

Hourly Rate: $20.22 - $24.73

General purpose: Assist Photography Manager, Assistant Manager, and Department Chair with daily photography department activities (e.g. maintaining dark rooms, digital print labs, studio spaces, troubleshooting photographic equipment cleaning of Department, etc). Enforce departmental policies and procedures with staff.

Summary of Essential Functions

• Conduct all support work for the Manager, Assistant Manager, Department Chair, and faculty

• Directly assist students with studio and lab work

• Advise students in equipment handling

• Supervise and train student employees

• Supervise the digital labs, chemistry labs, lighting studio, multi-media projection room alternative process darkrooms, dry finishing room, and classrooms

• Act as a liaison to the Photo Department Manager and Assistant Manager for students, faculty, and staff. (e.g. disseminating information, reporting on malfunctioning equipment, troubleshooting classroom AV).

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Open and close the photography lab, making sure everything is in order and clean, and the equipment has been shut down and properly secured

• Mix dark room film and print chemistry

• Supervise equipment check-out area, ensuring that all equipment is properly checked out to students and faculty, and is carefully recorded

• Maintain use of web checkout system and advise student equipment needs

• Assess and conduct digital and analogue equipment repairs

• Train students on unfamiliar equipment, hardware and software such as cameras, tripods, lighting equipment, digital printing on Epson large format and tabletop printers, drum and flatbed scanners, black & white and color film processing, developing darkroom prints, video output, vinyl cutting, and software such as Adobe CC Suite, VueScan,

• Silverfast, FlexColor, Processing, MadMapper, Silouette, Phocus, and more

• Works nights, as late as 1am

• Set up and clean the darkrooms, check-out area, classrooms, flex space, lighting studio, and digital labs.

• Assist the manager and assistant manager in having everything ready for classes

• Provide administrative support service to faculty such as, but not limited to: reaching technology information, preparing labs for class time, preparing supplies for class, gathering information, sharing concerns about students, etc.

• Execute regularly scheduled cleaning duties as assigned (sweeping, mopping, cleaning darkroom sinks/trays, wiping down computer monitors, dumping out trash from film loading closets, etc.)

• Supervise and train student employees

• Assist in the lighting studio, set up and breakdown of equipment, printer, scanner, projector troubleshooting, digital workflows

• Handle and record payments for prints and late fines through MICA flex and ledger

• Maintain health and safety for all students, staff, and faculty in the facility, report any areas of concerns to the Photography Department Manager

• Assist student gallery committee in art handling, installation and deinstallation

• Assist with filming artist lectures and breaking down video equipment

• Implement new tech protocols for results in improved efficiency such as creating tutorials and guides for student use for equipment

• Work with manager and department chairs on addressing student needs and concerns

• Manager incoming deliveries of photographic chemistry, equipment, supplies, etc.

• Make suggestions for new technology and repair needs based on lab and student use and requests

• Perform other related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of pr