Apprenticeship – Live Events Technician
Apprenticeship Training Provider: MUTI
Contact: info@muti.live
Job Title: Live Events Technician
Level: 3 apprenticeship
Duration: 24 months (2 years)
Salary: Minimum wage
Hours: 32 hours per week on the job and 8 hours additional training & portfolio of learning building. Please note that this job will require working some hours that sit outside of the normal working week, including weekends, early mornings, and late nights
Place of work: Bristol various. Currently one is in Failand
Employers: Enlightened; TH Collective; PYTCH; BES Systems; Sound Commercial; Evans Audio; Re-Production; Spirolux
Job Description:
This job will see you working across a wide range of live events ranging from festivals and theatrical performances through to gigs, exhibitions, conferences, product launches and showcases. Once fully trained your skills will enable you to work across the world and earn great money (a freelancer associate Technician was recently rigging the Olympics ceremony in Rio, Brazil on a rate of £350 a day).
Live Event Technicians prepare and set-up technical equipment for such events. Ultimately specialising in sound, lighting or video, Live Event Technicians will carry out routine and one-off technical preparation and set-up of equipment for events
They will have knowledge of the equipment used and the skills needed to store, pick, maintain, transport and build components into a functioning system as well as operate these systems.
A Live Event Technician will be part of the team that turns a venue into a functioning event environment before returning the site to its original state, often within a short time frame.
Outside the event environment, Technicians are responsible for the control, servicing, repair and storage of complex technical equipment. In any context working safely and ethically is paramount and many projects are carried out in fast moving, dynamic workplaces.
Live Event Technicians will be expected to work both individually and as part of a production team. They will be able to work with minimum supervision, taking responsibility for the quality and accuracy of the work that is undertaken. They will be proactive in finding solutions to problems and identifying areas for improving processes. The nature of this role requires that candidates are physically fit and comfortable working at height.
Due to the current lack of representation in the events workforce we actively welcome applications from people who consider themselves part of a minority group.
For more information or to find out how to apply please email info@muti.live