ABOUT THE LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART
Opening in September 2026, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is dedicated to illustrated storytelling. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum’s collection features works by artists including Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, N. C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Judith F. Baca, Frida Kahlo, and Maxfield Parrish; as well as comic art legends such as Winsor McCay, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, and R. Crumb; and photographers Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dorothea Lange. The Museum also houses the Lucas Archives, containing models, props, concept art, and costumes from Lucas’s filmmaking career.
Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with a landscape by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA, the Museum is in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, on an 11-acre campus that includes new green space and a 300,000-square-foot building with galleries, two theaters, a library, restaurant, café, retail store, and community spaces.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Loading Dock Operations is a division within the larger Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Facilities Department portfolio. The Facilities Department, in alignment with the Museum’s Strategic Priorities, places a sharp focus on operational excellence. The Facilities Department’s goal is to provide facilities maintenance and ancillary services in accordance with the wider mission of the museum and commensurate with the stature and reputation of the Lucas Museum landmark facility and brand. The Loading Dock Manager plays a key role in achieving this objective.
Reporting to the museum’s facilities director, the loading dock manager oversees the daily operations of each of the museum’s two loading docks, ensuring the safe, secure, efficient, and timely movement of inbound and outbound shipments, preparing weekly schedules, maintaining exceptional standards of customer service and ensuring all spaces are impeccably clean. The loading dock manager is responsible for collaborating with museum Security to ensure strict adherence to the museum’s security plan and museum departments to optimize workflows and minimize delays and damage.
On a strategic level, the loading dock manager will work across departments in pursuit of continuous process improvement, building on data, experimentation, and engagement with Security, museum departments, Expo Park colleagues, and delivery service providers.