[Scratchpostjobs] RHYTHM & HUES seeks RENDER I/O SUPERVISOR

[Jennifer Joyner]

*Rhythm & Hues Studios
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One of the world's leading facilities specializing in computer generated 
character animation and visual effects, Rhythm & Hues is commited to 
producing quality entertainment in a quality work environment.*

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*POSITION:                  Render I/O Supervisor*

*DEPARTMENT:          Render*

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Position Summary*

The Render I/O (RIO) Supervisor will be responsible for supervising 
members of the RIO Department, including interviewing, recruiting and 
recommending candidates for hire, coordinating the training and doing 
performance evaluations of the members of the RIO Department.  The RIO 
Supervisor will meet periodically with studio project representatives 
(producers, supervisors) as well as Production Management to help 
coordinate and balance resource allocation for the Studio. The RIO 
Supervisor will work closely with the MIS Team and other Technology 
Department Leads in planning and having the RIO department participate 
in implementing software tools related to Render I/O for the department 
and the Studio.

*Responsibilities*

§         Assist in and delegate management of studio resources, such as 
disk space and batch CPU utilization, coordination of backups and 
restores, prioritizing of computer tasks, and writing of documentation.

§         Supervise and coordinate training of RIO Coordinators, 
including coordinating the 7x24 hour work schedule.

§         Assist project supervisors and production managers in 
coordinating Studio wide resource allocations, including helping to 
build consensus in cases of resource contention.

§         Work with Technology Department Leads to plan, delegate, 
assign, maintain and implement software tools related to batch CPU 
utilization and disk management.

§         Manage projects of department, communicating status regularly 
to next-level management.


*Required Skills/Experience*

§         Ability to supervise and lead a team of RIO coordinators, to 
build consensus and lead constructive dialog toward issue resolution.

§         Excellent communication and presentation skills, both spoken 
and written.

§         Unix shell experience (strong familiarity with basic tools, 
such as Unix shells, tar, ftp, rsh, ps, etc.)

§         Scripting and programming experience (perl, C/C++, sh/csh).

§         Experience in a large installation Unix environment.

§         Ability to work in a fast paced, high-pressure environment.

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Desired Skills/Experience* 

§         Several years managing resources for a medium to large studio.

§         Enterprise class database experience (informix and mysql 
preferred -- oracle, sybase).

§         Strong foundation in Unix software development, maintenance 
and distribution tools, such as variants of make, revision control, 
remote distribution and basic software engineering concepts.

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//Please send, fax, or email cover letter and resume to:/ *

*Rhythm & Hues Studios
Attn: Recruiting Department
Re: Render I/O Supervisor position
5404 Jandy Place
Los Angeles, CA 90066*

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email:        recruitment at rhythm.com <mailto:recruitment at rhythm.com>
fax:            310.448.7600
 
website**: http://www.rhythm.com*

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