Stage Technician Salary
in Nebraska, United States

• Installs rigging, lighting, sound equipment, and scenery, and erects stages for theatrical, musical, and other entertainment events in arenas, stadiums, theaters, studios, and other amusement places: reads stage layout specifications and blueprints and confers with manager, stage to determine type and location of sets, props, scenery, lighting, and sound equipment required for specific event.
• Assembles props provided by production company, constructs additional props, scenery, or stages, and attaches braces that support scenery frames in upright position, using carpenter's handtools and power tools.
• Climbs ladder or scaffolding to ceiling grid, crawls and balances on beams, inserts ends of cables or ropes through ceiling grid, and attaches cables to scenery, curtains, equipment, support pipes, and counterbalance weights grip.
• Positions lighting fixtures on and around stage area, clamps light fixtures to supports, connects electrical wiring from fixtures to power source and control panel lighting-equipment operator, positions sound equipment, such as microphones, speakers, and amplifiers, on and around stage area, and connects electrical lines to power source and mixing console public-address servicer, utilizing knowledge of electrical codes and use of electrician's handtools and power tools.
• Pulls cables that raise and lower scenery, curtains, and equipment flyer and operates lighting and sound e.

Stage Technician Job Prevalence in Nebraska, United States

Job family: Audio and Video Equipment Technicians

Job family population: 72,740

Estimated population of Stage Technician jobs: 8,362

Rate of error: 2.2%