Render Wrangler

Description

Summary of Position: Render Wrangler for all Production; managing renders, priorities and submissions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Detect and troubleshoot failed jobs
• Follow-up crashed jobs and jobs killed because they were hung
• Monitor, diagnose and resolve/escalate malfunctioning farm hosts
• Keep the render farm running at maximum capacity
• Identify and report trends and potential problems
• Monitor the Rush render queue
• Monitor the Rush Submit operation
• Update and maintain the Rush job priorities according to Head of Production Supervisor
• Respond to all render-related Support Request Tickets
• Work with production to forecast render resource needs
• Update shot directories
• Render, inspect and fix frames for multiple concurrent productions
• Provide render time estimates to Production Supervisor