Central Production Director

Central Production Director | Position Posting

Faith Church | Summerville, SC

Position Type: Full-Time

Reports To: Central Creative Pastor

Location: Based at the Summerville Campus, with oversight across all nine Faith Church campuses

Schedule: Monday–Thursday in-office hours, Sundays required, with evenings/special events as needed

Compensation: Salary depends on experience

Position Summary

Faith Church is seeking a Central Production Director to lead production ministry across our nine campuses. This role exists to help create distraction-free worship and ministry environments where people can encounter the presence of God.

This is a ministry leadership role with a strong technical foundation. The Central Production Director will lead production staff, equip volunteers, strengthen systems, oversee campus production needs, and help production ministry serve the church with excellence, clarity, and care.

About Faith Church

Faith Church exists to create fully devoted followers of Jesus. Our mission is to help people Know God, Grow Together, Discover Their Purpose, and Make a Difference.

As a staff, we live out the values of Love God, Love Others, Make it Better, and Choose Joy. Production ministry is part of that mission by helping create environments where people can worship, hear the Word, and experience God without distraction.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead production ministry across all nine Faith Church campuses.
• Directly supervise production staff and provide leadership to campus production volunteers.
• Recruit, train, coach, and equip production leaders and volunteers.
• Establish standards for audio, lighting, video, staging, AVL systems, safety, and equipment care.
• Oversee production support for Sunday services, special services, and major ministry events.
• Troubleshoot service-critical production issues as needed.
• Prioritize campus production projects, clarify timelines, assign responsibilities, and ensure follow-through.
• Communicate clearly with campus pastors, worship leaders, ministry leaders, staff, volunteers, vendors, and contractors.
• Create and maintain production documentation, workflows, and training resources.
• Oversee production equipment care, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, inventory, and purchasing recommendations.
• Build a healthy, collaborative, others-centered production culture.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of AVL, live production, church production, or related experience required.
• Strong working knowledge of live audio, lighting, video, staging, and AVL systems.
• Working knowledge of Q-SYS and Dante preferred.
• Experience with Waves, ProPresenter, Resolume, GrandMA, and Planning Center preferred.
• Strong understanding of signal flow, gain structure, wireless systems, video routing, lighting control, and basic networking.
• Ability to troubleshoot calmly and effectively in live ministry environments.
• Strong project management skills, including prioritization, timelines, documentation, and follow-through.
• Clear and consistent communication with technical and non-technical leaders.
• Proven ability to train, equip, and develop staff and volunteers.
• Prior church production experience strongly preferred.
• Prior multi-campus or multi-site production experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Production, Audio Engineering, Technical Theatre, Media, Communications, Ministry, or a related field preferred, but not required.
• Equivalent hands-on experience, certifications, and demonstrated leadership may be considered in place of a degree.

Spiritual and Ministry Expectations

The Central Production Director must:

• Agree with and support the doctrine, mission, vision, and values of Faith Church.
• Demonstrate a growing relationship with Jesus.
• Model Faith Church’s staff values: Love God, Love Others, Make it Better, and Choose Joy.
• Lead with humility, integrity, spiritual maturity, and a team-first posture.
• Understand that production ministry serves people, not just systems.
• Help create worship and ministry environments that point people toward Jesus.

Physical Requirements

This role may require the ability to lift, carry, move, and install production equipment; work from stages, booths, control rooms, ladders, lifts, and technical environments when appropriate and trained; and move throughout ministry spaces during services, events, and projects.

Application Requirements

Applicants should submit:

• Cover letter.
• Resume.
• Portfolio or examples of production work.
• References.

In your cover letter, please include a brief description of your experience developing production volunteers in a church or live production environment.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a spiritually mature production leader who can build people and systems. They are a clear communicator, strong project manager, and developer of people. They care about technical excellence, but they care even more about creating worship environments where people can encounter God without distraction.