Sculpture Area: Responsible for managing, supervising, technical instruction, safe operation, budget administration, security, use, and day-to-day functions of the Sculpture Lab, Metal Fabrication/Welding Lab, Mold Making Lab, Resource/Reference Area, along with each labs' specialized equipment and tools, for the Sculpture Area of the Art

Department. Painting/Drawing Area: Responsible for directing, managing, supervising, technical instruction, budget administration, safe operation, and the studios/labs for the Department of Art Painting and Drawing Area. This position is responsible for supervising student workers. The incumbent will need to work 100% on campus.



The full salary range for the Sculpture, Painting/Drawing Lab Supervisor is $64,496.38 - $103,718.76 annually. We base salary offers on a variety of considerations, such as education, licensure and certifications, experience, and other business and organizational needs.



Applicants must have current work authorization when accepting a UCR staff position. Currently, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa for staff.



As a university employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable university policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Educational Requirements

• Education and/or experience equivalent to an MFA Preferred

Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of art laboratory/workshop experience and/or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. BA and 1 year of art laboratory/workshop experience.)
• Experience in working with a variety of electronic tools and materials, including sensors, interactive systems, motors, electronic systems, solar power, and computer-controlled equipment. Knowledge of the principles of analog and digital electronics; capability to communicate these principles to people with varying levels of understanding.

Minimum Requirements

• Demonstrated skill working with: wood, plastic, metal, wire, and ceramics.
• Expertise with basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical systems to make major installations, minor repairs, or identify situations that require Facility Services intervention.
• Able to function in a working-shop environment, with its related noise, potential dangers, and occasional dust, fumes and smoke.
• Excellent oral communication capability to instruct others about safety procedures and proper equipment and facility use.
• Ability to assert authority for maintaining safety standards as well as a clean working environment.
• Skills to lead a group or an individual to understand how machinery, tools, equipment and building materials work.
• Accomplished negotiating skills for exchanging ideas, information, directions, and opinions with students, faculty and staff. Ability to formulate policies and procedures, along with decisions and solutions.
• Able to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with all demographic groups, from custodial staff to administrators.
• Ability to train and supervise student and lab personnel to insure the safe and proper use of equipment, machinery, tools, materials and processes used in the Sculpture facilities, including the supervision of student-performed clean-up and maintenance.
• Ability to train and supervise students and teaching assistants, verifying hours worked and signing time sheets.
• Detailed knowledge of equipment, materials and processes needed to produce a variety of Painting, Drawing, and Art Installation projects.
• Ability to supervise and train students, student assistants, volunteers, and teaching assistants, organize work schedules, assign jobs, sign time sheets and verify hours worked.
• Ability to delegate responsibility.
• Accomplished at working in a stressful environment, with its fluctuating workload, frequent interruptions, and competing demands from students, faculty, teaching assistants, and staff, maintaining a positive, patient, and respectful attitude all the while.
• Use of computers for the following: control machinery and equipment; track inventories and monitor budget; develop policies and guidelines; conduct research on tools, methods and techniques for building sculptures. Ability to use establish, update, and maintain area social media.
• Working knowledge of standard forms and procedures to enable preparation of orders, arrange for services, perform inventories as needed, current technological advancements within the field of Sculpture and Painting, Drawing, and Art Installation, various methods of exhibition installation.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks according to changing needs, perform practical research and present clear recommendations, maintain an active professional role in the arts community, maintain currency in the Sculpture and Painting/Drawing concepts and processes through knowledge of work being produced in the international art world, assert authority to maintain safety standards and procedures including a clean and safe working environment, as well as protect against improper and deleterious use of equipment and facilities.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to purchase and change sculpture equipment when it is worn down or destroyed.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to purchase and change blades, belts, discs and bits for cutting, sawing and drilling equipment used in a working shop.
• Ability to recognize when blades are dull and bits need to be replaced.

Preferred Qualifications

• Able to understand and interpret university forms, policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated progressively responsible experience working in a laboratory and/or art studio.
• Skill in business management: budget preparation, resource allocation to meet budgetary goals, for Sculpture and Painting and Drawing areas.
• Ability to drive to off campus vendors and to the graduate facilities.
• Working knowledge of first-aid, including CPR.
• Experience running, programing, and maintaining a CNC Router.


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