Equipment LeadHybrid

Title: Equipment Lead

Location: Los Angeles, LA

Duration: 8 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for an Equipment Lead to join our Equipment team at Icon.Studios LA. We seek someone who has experience in a fast-paced environment that knows how to proactively manage and track equipment both in house and sub-rented. In addition to equipment knowledge, this person should be well versed in digital equipment and motion equipment, IE; digi-carts, monitors, cable management, RED camera, cinema lenses, and camera support. This person should have solid proficiency working cross functionally with production and digital teams. We seek a leader who can grow a team of players with clear direction, collaboration, and an ability to run point. This leader will explore new ways of thinking and problem solving as well as having the ability to manage multiple projects in a time-sensitive environment, while keeping production moving forward

Prerequisites:

• 4+ years of studio managing experience
• Proven ability to support and lead peers in new workflows and processes.
• A knowledge base of grip and lighting that puts safety as a priority
• Experience with creating and replicating detailed lighting diagrams.
• Ability to balance multiple time sensitive projects at once in addition to the daily
• responsibilities
• Expert level communication, listening, and organization skills.
• A keen eye for detail, cleanliness and organization
• A strong ability to problem solve camera/lighting malfunctions and errors in real
• time.
• Quality control, troubleshoot, and log malfunctioning equipment to send out for
• repair when necessary.
• Experience with Blue Circle or TrakIt equipment tracking software is a plus.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

Responsibilities:

Our lead position will be leading a shift of 3 to 4 team members in daily support of 5+ working photo sets. In addition to overseeing daily inventory tracking, they will be responsible for inputting equipment lists in Blue Circle (tracking system) to support ecommerce, editorial, and motion sets. Reading, following, and measuring out detailed lighting diagrams is a part of our weekly cadence with flipping sets – a firm knowledge is measuring and rigging is a must to scale multiple identical photo and video sets.

The Equipment Lead will guide their peer’s day to day with building sets to spec by using our lighting diagram SOP’s. They must be able to adapt on the fly with lighting changes, set flips, and shoot schedule changes. They will learn new processes and advocate for efficiencies in time and organization. Being able to lead a diverse team with clear direction, resilient governance, and a team-based approach is key to success in our team.