Job Description

We are seeking a Camera Rental House Operations Manager to become an integral part of our team! You will coordinate and oversee the organization's daily operations.

Spekulor is a creative production company and rental house based in Hawthorne California. We provide the people, gear, and capabilities to create innovative content for Brands, networks, and Individuals. Our team is creative, technically skilled, and growing.

We are looking for a operations/rental house manager with experience working and systemizing our rental division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicate with clients in regards to orders.
• Make sure items are not double booked.
• Coordinate and create estimates for clients and oversee the rental team.
• Establish prospecting, quotas, and sales goals for the team.
• Analyze sales statistics to identify areas of improvement.
• Track results and trends regularly for business forecasting.
• Report on team and individual performance.
• Develop and execute innovative outreach strategies.
• Build and form new relationships with potential clients.
• Manage and improve operational practices
• Allocate resources and materials to meet project deadlines
• Track and forecast operational trends and analysis
• Provide daily operations oversight for outside teams
• Formalize policies and procedures in accordance to HR regulations

Desired Characteristics:

• Organized
• Reliable
• Honest
• Able to take initiative to go the extra mile to solve problems.
• Learn from mistakes, and apply the lessons going forward.

Qualifications:

• Comprehensive knowledge of video gear (Camera, Lighting, Video Village, Accessories, etc.)
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task.
• Maintain a professional and positive attitude (especially under pressure).
• Able to communicate well, as well as act in accord to the betterment of the company.
• Must have transportation.
• Previous experience in pro film equipment rentals, customer service, or related fields.
• Familiarity with Rental software is an added bonus.
• Strong leadership qualities.
• Ability to build rapport with clients.
• Previous experience in operations or other related fields
• Strong project management skills
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Strong leadership qualities

Basic Functions: Oversee and maintain a large and diverse collection of digital and 16mm film production equipment and projection systems. Manage student checkout and returns of equipment. Enforce departmental equipment policies. Provide technical and operational classroom and teaching support for departmental faculty.

Job Functions:

• Prepping and organizing equipment packages for daily student checkout.
• Ensuring that returned equipment is complete and in working order, including required follow-up with students and faculty.
• Supervising the day-to-day operation of equipment room (check-in/out of the film and digital equipment), maintaining all production equipment (cameras, lights, sound recorders, tripods, microphones, etc.), performing necessary repairs or sending equipment out for repair, maintaining 16mm/35mm projectors and editing equipment, shipping out the film for processing.
• Maintaining and updating equipment inventory. Ordering supplies and equipment repairs using Denison's online procurement system.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent required. Working knowledge and usage of film/digital production equipment. Lifting up to 50 lbs. and bending and stooping.

Preferred Qualifications: BA or BFA in film/video production. 1-3 years of experience with Apple OS X, Adobe Premiere Pro, and other Creative Cloud applications, as well as Arriflex SR/S and Éclair NPR/ACL film cameras. Spekulor Creative is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. To achieve our mission as a positive creative entity we follow the belief which recognizes the value of all persons regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or socio-economic background.

Company Description

Spekulor is a premiere production services company providing a variety of services to the creative industry from production office space, studio space, producing and editing services to camera, grip and lighting rental. We are focused on creating a community of filmmakers and fostering the development of Independent feature and commercial productions. We have produced. Features, television and web series and have the capability to provide production and post production services to any sized show, whether network episodic or a large feature film. Also the Spekulor has produced many music videos and commercials working for some of the biggest names in the advertising and music industry. Our client roster includes broadcast and cable networks, such as NBC, BBC, Discovery, MTV, E!, Bloomberg TV, FOX,HBO,iHeart Media and tech companies such as Mashable, Yahoo, Google and others. Our philosophy is to tackle interesting characters and gain access to unique worlds, telling stories that resonate with a wide range of audiences (both domestic and international), as well as niche markets. Whatever the medium, we produce programs that entertain and captivate viewers.