Job Description:

• 1) Fabricates and assembles props, miniatures, and sets for motion pictures and theatrical productions from a variety of materials, using handtools and woodworking and metalworking machines and equipment: Analyzes sketches, blueprints, and verbal instructions to determine type props and other materials needed and equipment required.

• 2) Measures and marks cutting lines on material, using work aids, such as jigs and fixtures, micrometers, calipers, and templates.

• 3) Fabricates parts, using machinery, such as drill press, metal and wood lathes, power saws, router, and milling machine.

• 4) Assembles parts into props, miniatures, and sets, using handtools and equipment, such as screwdrivers, wrenches, hammers, and welding apparatus.

• 5) Rigs and controls moving or functioning elements of sets that depict action.