Freelance Lighting Technician

Kudos AV Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Kudos AV Ltd. in London is seeking an experienced lighting technician to rig and operate lighting for conferences, awards, and private events. You will work across London and the UK, handling fixtures, programming desks, and ensuring show readiness.

Proficiency with Avolites or grandMA is essential, and reading lighting plans with confidence is required. This role involves working at height, travelling to venues, and adapting to changing running orders.

Qualifications

• Professional experience rigging and operating lighting on live events.
• Comfortable on Avolites or grandMA; programmers should know one deeply.
• Able to read a lighting plan and work without hand holding.
• Happy working at height and to venue access rules across London and the UK.

Responsibilities

• Rig and focus conventional and moving fixtures from plans, on truss and on the deck.
• Programme and operate desks for conferences, awards nights and live performance.
• Run power and data cleanly, and keep the rig safe, tidy and show ready.
• Busk when the running order changes, because it always changes.
• Load in, load out and look after the kit.

Skills

Live event rigging

Lighting programming

Reading lighting plans

Teamwork

Tools

Avolites

grandMA

Job description

Rig, focus, programme and operate lighting on events from architectural uplighting to fully programmed moving head rigs.

Kudos AV produces conferences, award ceremonies, brand activations, exhibitions and private events across London and the UK, around 500 a year, from our base in Uxbridge. The core team is full time; when a build needs more hands we book freelancers we know, and the people who do good work get booked again and again.

For lighting that means everything from warm uplighting in a listed hall to busked awards shows and timecoded openers, mostly on Avolites and grandMA, with designers and programmers booked as such and paid as such.

What you will do

• Rig and focus conventional and moving fixtures from plans, on truss and on the deck.
• Programme and operate desks for conferences, awards nights and live performance.
• Run power and data cleanly, and keep the rig safe, tidy and show ready.
• Busk when the running order changes, because it always changes.
• Load in, load out and look after the kit.

What we are looking for

• Professional experience rigging and operating lighting on live events.
• Comfortable on Avolites or grandMA; programmers should know one deeply.
• Able to read a lighting plan and get on with it without hand holding.
• Happy working at height and to venue access rules across London and the UK.

Useful but not essential

• IPAF or PASMA tickets and your own PLI.
• Timecode and pixel mapping experience.
• A full UK driving licence.

We book fourteen freelance disciplines, and the register covers all of them.