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Work at CIOMIT in Castle Rock, CO

About CIOMIT: Our team is passionate, supportive, and committed to a growth mindset.  We’ve been contributing to the quality of music for 17 years! While technically our job is to repair instruments and teach others to do the same, we see our job as being educators, advocates, and craftsmen for music. We carry out these roles by staying committed to our value of excellent customer care in every area of our services. 

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Senior Woodwind Repair Technician/Woodwind Repair Instructor

Full-time: $24 – $31 an hour + Benefits

Job Summary
This position is a combination of woodwind instrument repair and woodwind instrument repair instruction. The repair portion of this role includes repairing customer and shop-owned woodwind instruments (flute/piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet), managing woodwind department workflow for technicians, performing quality control checks on all department repairs, and estimating/intaking customer repairs. The instructor portion of this role includes providing high quality woodwind instrument repair instruction to students in-person and online, updating curriculum materials as needed, maintaining student records (grades, attendance, professionalism score, etc.). The person filling this role will be heavily involved with the management team to create strategy for company/institute growth via weekly team meetings, strategy meetings, and all hands organization days.

Duties

Senior Woodwind Repair Technician:

• Perform repairs and maintenance on woodwind instruments (flute/piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet).
• Provide customer service for instrument sales, accessory sales, and repair estimates.
• Maintain accurate records of repairs, parts used, and job status via shop POS system
• Manage woodwind department workflow; distribute jobs to department technicians.
• Perform quality control checks on all woodwind department jobs.
• Organize and track inventory of woodwind department parts. Communicate department ordering needs.
• Collaborate with team members to identify recurring issues and suggest improvements.
• Follow safety protocols and maintain a clean working environment.
• Assist in training junior technicians as needed.
• (On occasion) Attend special rental/repair events for school customers.

Woodwind Repair Instructor:

• Provide curriculum based instruction to students on-campus via demonstration/application model in an ‘instructor to student’ 1 to 4 ratio
• Provide instruction and feedback to online students via scheduled coaching sessions
• Create practice assignments and opportunities for students using the curriculum calendar guide.
• Manage inventory of institute woodwind department (tools, instruments, parts, etc)
• Review student work and provide feedback and grades using the curriculum rubric
• Manage student records (grades, attendance, professionalism scores)
• Update curriculum materials as needed (tool lists, syllabus, course calendars, etc.)
• (on occasion) provide on-site instruction for director groups or individual shops.

Qualification Requirements*

• 3+ years experience in woodwind repairs–all instruments (5+ years preferred)
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills to interact effectively with students and repair customers.
• Ability to time manage multiple roles and responsibilities
• Strong organization skills
• Ability to learn and POS system efficiently

*We understand that the best candidate isn’t always the most qualified candidate. We are looking for the right person to fill this role on our team. Even if you do not meet all the qualification requirements, please apply if you feel you’d be a good fit for this position.

Apply on on Indeed or by emailing your resume and cover letter to [email protected].