Production Supervisor

4 Years ago • All levels • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Production Supervisor will be responsible for the production scheduling, workflow management, mentoring, and maintaining crew morale for immersive stories. Responsibilities include collaborating with Creative Leads to meet production schedules and budgets, ensuring weekly quotas are met, developing department workflows, managing internal schedules, and creating productivity reports. This role also involves mentoring Production Coordinators and Assistants, providing performance feedback, managing conflicts, and representing the department in production meetings. The supervisor must maintain crew morale and drive solutions to any issues that impede the department's progress. The Production Supervisor also needs to ensure budget and scheduling are updated as changes are made to the film's production flow and/or staffing profile. Understands how changes may affect the budget, scheduling and overtime.
Must have:
  • Meet overall production scheduling and budget requirements.
  • Ensure weekly quotas, department milestones & inventory expectations are met.
  • Develop and manage department workflow process.
  • Develop and manage internal department schedules and staffing requirements.
  • Create and maintains reports that clearly illustrate department and individual artist productivity.
  • Primary production person within department and supervises and mentors Production Coordinators and Production Assistants for that dept.
  • Responsible for maintaining crew morale.
  • Represents Department in weekly production meetings.

Job Details

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. 

Responsibilities

Schedule and Workflow:

  • Works with Creative Leads to meet overall production scheduling and budget requirements and helps to ensure the budget and scheduling are updated as changes are made to the film’s production flow and/or staffing profile. Understands how changes may affect the budget, scheduling and overtime.
  • Looks ahead to ensure that weekly quotas, department milestones & inventory expectations are met. Strategizes with Department Leads to resolve any productivity and/or inventory issues.
  • Collaborates with Department Leads to ensure the complexity of work is consistent with department budget and schedule. Strategizes with Department Leads on how to resolve any complexity overages.
  • Collaborates with Department Leads to develop and manage department workflow process.
  • Develops and manages internal department schedules and staffing requirements. Creates list of critical assumptions and highlights any vulnerabilities.
  • Creates and maintains reports that clearly illustrate department and individual artist productivity.
  • Collaborates with Department Leads to cast assignments and issue deadlines to artists.
  • Performs walk-arounds to check in with the crew.
  • Attends Director approvals and helps to drive this meeting.

Mentoring and Staffing:

  • Primary production person within department and supervises and mentors Production Coordinators and Production Assistants for that dept.
  • Partners with Department Leads to coach, mentor and give performance feedback. Drives review process and delivers reviews.
  • Partners with Department Leads to manage conflict within the department and partners with Human Resources regarding disciplinary procedures. Documents conflicts and provides progress updates to Human Resources.
  • May work with the Training Department to set up training for crew.
  • Supports and represents directives from the studio and/or production leadership.
  • Assists Studio Executives and Production Management with handling transitions.
  • May be involved in the interviewing, hiring process and deal negotiations.

Morale and Communication:

  • Responsible for maintaining crew morale.
  • Represents Department in weekly production meetings. Reports department progress and discusses solutions to any issues impeding the department.
  • Partners with the Department Leads to manage, motivate and create an environment conducive to achieving quotas and artistic achievements.

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Penrose Studios is at the forefront of virtual reality as a storytelling medium. We’re a group of artists, engineers and storytellers, and we’re looking for an eclectic mix of talented individuals who are fast learners with driven personalities.

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