Prep Engineer

NEP Europe; Crawley; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Technology in Crawley is seeking a Prep Engineer who will help prepare and maintain systems in our warehouse and provide on-site support for these systems.

You will work as part of a wider team, prioritise tasks, and collaborate with other departments to develop your knowledge and teamwork across projects.

Experience with live events systems is advantageous, and you will participate in the preparation, packing, testing, and delivery of equipment for onsite use.

Responsibilities

• Building and configuring systems including ancillary items.
• Prepping and testing of large scale or complex systems.
• Packing prepped equipment into cases to prevent transit damage and ensure on-site readiness.
• Completing quality control on prepped systems prior to shipping.
• Monitoring and reporting losses and damages to all departmental equipment.
• Monitoring future rental requirements for projects and reporting shortfalls to the relevant teams.
• Basic configuration of Vision mixing equipment to ensure robust testing and inter system connectivity.
• Assisting check in, check out and maintenance of all department rental stock.
• Ensuring all equipment is maintained to a high standard.
• Maintaining tidy, efficient prep and warehouse areas.
• Continuing to improve knowledge of equipment and the driving tech.
• Completing required company training.
• Engaging with engineering teams and freelancers to gain knowledge and experience.
• Notifying line manager of training or demonstration opportunities.
• Upholding delivery standards and professionalism for Creative Technology and clients.
• Assisting other teams with project delivery when time permits.
• Awareness of equipment requirements to speed up preparation processes.

Job description

The Role

As a Prep Engineer, you will be responsible for assisting with the preparation and maintenance of systems and related equipment in our warehouse and offering remote support for these systems on site.

The ability to work as part of the wider team and other departments and prioritise tasks are paramount to the role. The skills and expertise you will learn in the role are valuable to other departments at Creative Technology and you can expect to find times where you are required to work with these other teams developing your own knowledge and teamwork.

Previous experience of live events systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

Project

• Building and configuring systems including ancillary items.
• Prepping and testing of large scale or complex systems.
• Assisting packing prepped equipment into cases, ensuring they will not be damaged in transit and contain everything required to get the equipment working on site.
• Completing quality control on prepped systems prior to shipping.
• Monitoring and reporting of losses and damages to all departmental equipment.
• Monitoring of future rental requirements for projects and reporting short falls and tight turnarounds to the relevant technical, project or rental teams.

Department

• Basic configuration of Vision mixing equipment to ensure robust testing and inter system connectivity.
• Assisting check in, check out and maintenance of all department rental stock.
• Assisting the department to ensure all equipment is maintained to a high standard.
• Sharing responsibility for maintaining tidy, efficient prep and warehouse areas.

Other Responsibilities

• Constantly working to improve your knowledge of our equipment and the technology that drives it.
• Complete all training required by the company.
• Actively engage with the rest of the engineering teams and freelancers to gain knowledge and experience that may build your own capabilities.
• Make your line manager aware of any training or manufacturer demonstration opportunities that you come across.
• Uphold the high standards or delivery and professionalism expected by Creative Technology and our clients.
• Adhere to all company policies and processes.
• Assist other teams with the overall delivery of projects and proactively find these opportunities when time permits.
• Awareness of previous and upcoming equipment requirements with a view to speed up the preparation process