Photography Lab Technician

The Photography Lab Technician assists the Photography Lab Manager with overseeing and monitoring the Photography Labs for the College of Art & Design's Photography program. This position reports directly to the Photography Lab Manager. The starting pay rate is $10/hr. The position is evaluated 2x a semester with one mid-semester evaluation and one end-of-semester evaluation.

Essential Duties

• Responsible for renting photography equipment to students; helps to maintain proper function of rental and lab equipment.
• Assists in maintaining inventory of equipment.
• Ensures that chemical and ink inventory is accurate.
• Provides technical assistance to students: including but not limited to procedures for processing film and prints in the darkroom, digital printing, and scanning film.
• Provides technical assistance with alternative processes as needed.
• Provides assistance to students with print finishing, display, and lighting studio.
• Ensures that policies and procedures are followed throughout the photography area including: Darkroom, Lighting Studio, Print Labs, and Classrooms.
• Assists professors and students during and after class times by answering questions, reiterating lab procedures, and any other information that is needed.
• Prepares the labs and classrooms before each use and ensures the labs and classrooms are cleaned up after use.

Qualifications

• Experience in Photography / Art or related field is preferred.
• Familiarity with the operation of B&W darkroom enlargers, B&W film processing, photography lighting equipment, analog and digital photography, microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, and Teams, and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Basic computer knowledge and excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Cover Letter Required as part of this application process. 
Please address the below questions in a Cover Letter. Applications utilizing ChatGPT will be declined:

1. Why are you interested in working as a photography Lab Technician?
2. Are you willing to do light cleaning tasks?
3. Have you been trained on wet scanning?
4. Have you taken any photography classes? If so, where?
5. Do you have any darkroom experience? If so, please describe the processes you have worked with.
6. Do you have any studio lighting experience? If so, please describe.
7. What digital printing experience do you have?
8. Do you qualify for work study? (please contact financial aid if you’re unsure)

Please submit application materials as PDF files only.
The application materials should include: cover letter, resume, class schedule, and work availability preferences for the semester you are applying for. Applications missing any of this information will not be considered.