Instrument Repair Technician - Strings Emphais
Schmitt Music
Omaha, NE
Information Technology, Engineering
Job Location: Omaha, NE
Salary Range: $16.00 - $18.00
Description
Instrument Repair Technician - Strings
People make the difference in an outstanding company and we are always looking for exceptional people! Schmitt Music is a well-known, respected, family-owned musical instrument dealer in the Twin Cities and surrounding region. Schmitt Music aims to become our customers' preferred resource for everything they need as they pursue their musical dreams. Our passion and mission have remained the same for 125 years - Enriching lives by helping people make music!
Position Summary
The Workshop Team of the Paul A. Schmitt Violin Shop is currently seeking a full-time Luthier at our Omaha location. The successful candidate will help fulfill our mission: Enriching lives by helping people make music.
Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
You will join a large and growing team of caring, conscientious, and enthusiastic Technicians. We will provide ongoing training to gain familiarity with our instruments and proficiency in our methods and standards. The Luthier will help set-up, maintain, and repair our student level instruments; violins, violas, cellos, basses and fretted instruments. We work directly with manufacturers to supply instruments which are excellent in quality and sound. The Luthier will ensure that the set-up and maintenance is of the highest quality for the players in our area.
Preferred Qualifications May Include
- Experience in a violin shop.
- Experience in woodworking.
- A passion for playing and a desire to learn about instrument construction and maintenance.
- Diploma in Violin Maintenance/Repair or Violin Making.
- Shop-type working conditions
- Physical Demands: The responsibilities of this position may frequently require using hands to, handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms, and talking hearing. This position may often involve standing, walking and sitting. This position may sometimes involve climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling.
We are growing, and aspire to be the best violin shop in the Omaha area and the surrounding region.
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications may include:
- Experience in a violin shop.
- Experience in woodworking.
- A passion for playing and a desire to learn about instrument construction and maintenance.
- Diploma in Violin Maintenance/Repair or Violin Making.
About the company
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At Schmitt Music you'll find the best brands and a great selection of band and orchestra instruments, acoustic & digital pianos, sheet music & books, accessories, guitars & ukuleles, plus music lessons, repair services and more.
Each year students take over 185,000 lessons at Schmitt Music stores, and we help over 13,000 children join their school band or orchestra! Our stores also offer the services of approximately 40 technicians who repair and service thousands of instruments annually.
Schmitt Music is the exclusive home of Steinway & Sons pianos, and Steinway-designed Boston and Essex pianos. We also carry the industries top brands including Kawai and Roland pianos, band & orchestra instruments by Conn-Selmer, Bach, Eastman, Yamaha, and and so many more.
In business since 1896, Schmitt Music is dedicated to serving its customers, associates, and communities; the company's mission is the same today as it was then – "Enriching lives by helping people make music."
Today, Schmitt Music is one of the most respected full-service music retailers in America with 9 locations. There are five Schmitt Music stores in Minnesota: two in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, and others in Duluth, Rochester, and Virginia, MN. We also have four stores in four other states: Fargo, ND; Sioux Falls, SD; Eau Claire, WI; and Omaha, NE.
Schmitt Music recently welcomed the fifth generation in to the family-run business with two great-great grandsons of founder Paul A. Schmitt joining the company!
Learn more about career opportunities at www.schmittmusic.com/careers, or contact us with your musical instrument inquiries at www.schmittmusic.com/contact.