- Position: Technician
- Reports to: Technical and Production Manager
- Salary: £24,000 - £25,500 (depending on experience)
- Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week as part of a rota with regular evening and weekend work
- Location: Corn Exchange, Market Place, Newbury (You may be required to work at our other locations of 101, The Base and The Old Library as part of your normal working week)
- Holiday Entitlement: 20 days per annum, plus bank holidays (pro rata if part time)
Job description
Person specification:
The successful candidate will:
- Have at least 2 years of experience working in technical theatre in a theatre, arts centre or live performance environment
- Have a good understanding of generic and intelligent theatre lighting and their uses.
- Have a good understanding of technical plans such as lighting rig plans, channel lists and stage plots
- Have good computer Literacy and understanding of technical equipment/networking
- Have excellent communication skills
- Have an analytical approach to problem solving
- Have good organisational skills and able to work under their own initiative
- Be comfortable with working at height
Within the technical department, we work with a variety of systems and processes. Experience of using some of these is desirable but you are not required to have experience of all of them as training will be provided:
- Health and safety training
- First Aid
- ETC EOS family lighting control for programming and operating lighting for a variety of performance genres.
- Qlab for compiling, editing and playing out sound & video
- Yamaha QL5 & Dante for sound control and operation
- Screenwriter for digital cinema content scheduling
- Seaward PAT Testing Machines and PATguard 3 for Portable Appliance Testing
- Outdoor events, rigging and staging
- Audience Systems, retractable auditorium seating
- Ladders and access equipment such as tallescopes and Genie Lifts
Additional Benefits
- 20% discount in café and bar
- Free theatre, film and exhibition tickets for the Corn Exchange & The Base
- Free access to our small car park
- A day off for your birthday
- A day off for Wellbeing activity
How to apply
Please email recruitment@cornexchangenew.co.uk with your CV, Cover Letter and Equal Opportunities Form.
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