Production Coordinator

Job description created April, 2007

Salary/Benefits
Salary is $30,000 per year. 3.6 weeks paid time off per year (combined vacation and sick time, based on an assumed 37 hours work week). Health care, dental, and vision plan. Employer-matching retirement plan
Work Hours
Four and a half to five days per week, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30am to 7:30pm, some evening or morning meetings, with some flexibility.
To Apply
To apply, e-mail your cover letter and resume to jobs@freegeek.org, detailing your volunteer coordination experience and any other pertinent information. We will be contacting a small group of candidates via e-mail to take a tour of Free Geek prior to being interviewed. This position is open until filled.

Responsibilities:

• Attend weekly staff meetings, and other meetings as necessary
• Teach and recruit volunteer instructors for workshops (i.e. build, alt build, advanced testing, printers)
• Refine build and quality control procedures
• Teach and recruit volunteers for advanced testing, printers, alt. build, etc.
• Create and update documentation that will be used to teach volunteers hardware testing procedures
• Create new testing procedures to explore new hardware avenues
• Locate and prepare items for the thrift store
• Coordinate with other members of the production team
• Work floor shifts coordinating volunteers
• Participate in collective management structure
• Take on tasks and committees unrelated to production coordination.

Required skills:

• Experience managing volunteers
• Knowledge of PC and Macintosh hardware
• Knowledge of Ubuntu and Debian Linux
• Well versed in troubleshooting techniques
• Self-motivation
• Multi-tasker
• Friendly, outgoing personality
• Patient and courteous with the public
• Likes working with people
• Detail oriented
• Good organizational skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work in an informal, friendly environment with a diverse staff
• Work well under stress in an unusual setting, maintaining a positive attitude even in the face of adversity
• Ability to work and communicate well in a collectively-run organization
• Ability to work in a consensus decision making process related to staff and policy issues
• Not afraid to ask questions, but able to work on projects almost entirely without supervision
• Able to remain flexible as Free Geek grows and changes

Desired skills:

• Knowledge of enterprise class hardware
• Knowledge of networking and network administration