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Competition Number:

JR100203

Position Title:

SMPA Technician

Employment Group:

Support Staff

Position Status:

Casual (Fixed Term) Part time

Position Start Date:

November 2, 2026

Position End Date:

November 2, 2027

Department:

Film Centre

Location:

North Vancouver

Salary Range:

29.77 CAD hourly based on 35 hours per week (with increments up to 33.46 CAD)

Job Description Summary:

.An incumbent in this position works in support of instruction in the equipment storage area with students, faculty, staff, and external clients in the School of Motion Picture Arts. An incumbent in this position acts as a “Point Person” to plan, coordinate, and schedule equipment rentals for various users. This position is primarily responsible for providing frontline customer service related to motion picture equipment rental orders, and ensuring that the broad range of film and TV production equipment is well maintained, inventoried, and available for use through a departmental reservation system. An incumbent in this position also provides minor technical assistance to students and faculty. This position reports to the Director of the Film Centre and takes direction from the Film Centre Technical Supervisor.

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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

- Acts as a “Point Person” to liaise with faculty and students to plan, coordinate and schedule equipment rentals for classes, assignments, and productions.

- Models safe and effective packaging, transportation, setup, and operation of a wide variety of motion picture equipment for students and instructors based on motion picture standards, Schedules practice times for students to run-through protected and proficient use of the equipment.

- Assists students by showing them the safe and correct application of materials, tools, techniques, and processes and oversees the borrowing and return of facilities and equipment.

- Ensures equipment requests are built and circulation appointments are fulfilled in a timely fashion and are completed accurately, and with a high standard of orderliness and cleanliness.
- Assesses errors, availability conflicts, or omissions in film equipment request submissions and directly contacts clients to resolve.
- Maintains student profiles in the Rentalworks system. Manages student requests; Runs reports, views and updates records, creates and modifies equipment orders, and processes newly acquired inventory on Rentalworks.

- Maintains loans and inventory records of equipment and supplies, ensuring that equipment is available and ready for use at the stated time and that adequate supplies are on hand for faculty demonstrations and student productions; maintains Props and set décor room.

- Coordinates flow of production equipment between multiple courses, assignments, production groups, and deadlines.
- Provides trouble shooting for minor technical problems and software issues.
- Performs minor equi

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