Scenery technician jobs in Finland
Scenery technicians setup, prepare, check and maintain pre-assembled sets in order to provide optimal scenery quality for a live performance. They cooperate with road crew to unload, set up and move equipment and sets.
Scenery technician - Which skills are essential?
Apply ergonomy principles in the organisation of the workplace while manually handling equipment and materials.
Interpret an artist's explanation or demonstration of their artistic concepts, inceptions and processes and strive to share their vision.
Manual drawing or sketching of stage layouts.
Make use of protection equipment according to training, instruction and manuals. Inspect the equipment and use it consistently.
Work with artists, striving to understand the creative vision and adapting to it. Make full use of your talents and skills to reach the best possible result.
Take steps to prevent fire in a performance environment. Make sure the space complies with fire safety rules, with sprinklers and fire extinguishers installed where necessary. Make sure staff are aware of fire prevention measures.
Correct settings or positions for your working instruments and adjust them before starting operations.
Put together all prepared scenic elements to prepare the rehearsal set.
Take responsibility for lifelong learning and continuous professional development. Engage in learning to support and update professional competence. Identify priority areas for professional development based on reflection about own practice and through contact with peers and stakeholders.
Assemble scenic elements, dance and stage floors and stage cloths, based on written documents
Take the necessary precautions while providing temporary power distribution for performance and art facility purposes under supervision.
Apply the safety rules according to training and instruction and based on a solid understanding of the prevention measures and risks to your own personal health and safety.
Take apart all prepared scenic elements after the rehearsal.
Handle and assemble equipment and scenery material during rehearsal or on stage.
Interpret the designs and other scenic drawings to clearly mark the information from the ground plans to the stage area.
Change-over of scenic elements during performance, and follow the relevant documentation during performance.
Monitor and follow new trends and developments in specific sectors.
Make sure to set up equipment according to deadlines and time schedules.
Inspect and amend the scenery and set-dressing to make sure the visual quality is optimal with in constraints of time, budget and manpower.
Take necessary precautions and follow a set of measures that assess, prevent and tackle risks when working at a high distance from the ground. Prevent endangering people working under these structures and avoid falls from ladders, mobile scaffolding, fixed working bridges, single person lifts etc. since they may cause fatalities or major injuries.
Scenery technician - Which skills are useful but not essential?
File and document a production in all its phases right after the performance period so that it can be reproduced and all relevant information remains accessible.
Manage and monitor consumables stock to ensure that the production demands and deadlines can be met at all times.
Manage and monitor technical resources stock to ensure that production demands and deadlines can be met at all times.
Observe the show, anticipate and react to possible technical problems, ensuring optimal artistic quality.
Set, remove, or move props on a stage during a changeover.
Intervene in the case of a fire in order to extinguish the fire or limit the effects pending the arrival of emergency services according to training and procedures.
Adjust plans to other locations with regards to the artistic concept.
Anticipate possible problems with mechanical and electromechanical stage equipment.
Draw and design stage settings and layouts using software like CAD.
Recommend technical solutions, including systems, to the client within the framework of a project.
Cooperate with the artistic team in order to facilitate the transition from the creative vision and its artistic concepts to a technical design.
Take the necessary precautions for storing, using and disposing chemical products.
Arrange props on the stage in preparation of a performance.
File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.
Market one's own strengths in terms of skills and knowledge.
Anticipate possible technical problems with scenic elements.
Make sure an installed technical system is adequately transferred and signed off for.
Reach out to and meet up with people in a professional context. Find common ground and use your contacts for mutual benefit. Keep track of the people in your personal professional network and stay up to date on their activities.
Consult with different people and groups who hold a stake in the production. Be on the same page on the practical side of the production, and keep them up to date.
Documenting your own work practice for different purposes like assessment, time management, job application etc.
Establish a workable layout for the system you manage and maintain it for the duration of a production.
Install, check, maintain and repair stages and sets.