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  • 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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