Senior AV Technician - Projects - Live Events

aps Events & Media; Cheadle; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home part of the week

Job summary

aps Events & Media in Abney Park, Cheadle, South Manchester, is seeking a Senior AV Technician to join a busy project team. You’ll support planning and delivery of corporate events, from brief interpretation to on-site technical delivery.

The role covers hybrid meetings, congresses, and exhibitions, with floor plans, schematics, and coordination with freelancers and venues. The right candidate will be calm, organised, and client-facing, with strong AV discipline experience.

Qualifications

• Strong technical AV experience in corporate events or venue management.
• On-site client liaison experience.
• Experience crewing with freelancers, suppliers and venues.
• Ability to specify AV requirements and crewing plans from scratch.
• Experience producing floor plans and schematics (Vectorworks or similar).
• Operating experience across relevant AV disciplines.
• Calm, organised, solutions-focused on site.
• Strong communication with project managers and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the technical planning and delivery of corporate events.
• Working from client briefs to help specify AV requirements, equipment, and crew.
• Producing floor plans and technical schematics.
• Operating confidently on-site across relevant AV disciplines.
• Leading or supporting technical crews on-site, including freelancers and third-party suppliers.
• Acting as a technical point of contact for clients, venues, suppliers, and internal project teams.
• Carrying out site visits.
• Supporting smooth on-site delivery and troubleshooting issues.

Skills

Strong AV experience

On-site client liaison

Crewing with freelancers/suppliers

Specifying AV requirements & crewing

Floor plans & schematics (Vectorworks)

AV disciplines operations

Calm, organised, solutions-focused

Strong communication with PMs/teams

Tools

Vectorworks

Job description

We are a well-established, successful and diverse events and media production company based in the beautiful surroundings of Abney Park in Cheadle, South Manchester. We specialise in the production of global events and creating exciting and innovative digital media, primarily within the healthcare industry.

We're now looking for a Senior AV Technician to join one of our busy project teams. This role would suit someone with strong AV experience within the corporate events industry who is comfortable liaising with clients onsite, and helping plan and deliver events end to end.

Events will vary from hybrid meetings, congresses, and smaller-scale recordings, through to exhibition stands with delegate interaction and detailed AV setups. You’ll be involved in projects from the early technical planning stages, including interpreting briefs, producing technical specifications and floor plans, liaising with suppliers and freelancers, to managing technical delivery onsite.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting the technical planning and delivery of corporate events
• Working from client briefs to help specify AV requirements, equipment, and crew
• Producing floor plans and technical schematics
• Operating confidently on-site across relevant AV disciplines
• Leading or supporting technical crews on-site, including freelancers and third-party suppliers
• Acting as a technical point of contact for clients, venues, suppliers, and internal project teams
• Carrying out site visits
• Supporting smooth on-site delivery and troubleshooting issues

Requirements

• Strong technical AV experience gained within corporate events or venue management setting
• Confidence working on-site and dealing directly with clients
• Experience crewing jobs and working with freelancers, suppliers, venues, and other third parties
• Able to spec jobs from the ground up, including AV requirements and crewing requirements
• Experience producing floor plans and other event-related schematics (Vectorworks or similar)
• Operating experience across relevant AV disciplines
• A calm, organised and solutions-focused approach, especially when working on site
• Good communication skills and the ability to work closely with project managers, producers, and technical colleagues

If you don’t meet every single point but you have solid AV experience, good client-facing skills and you’re ready to step into a more senior technical role within a project team, we’d still like to hear from you.

Benefits

• As well as a great benefits package and competitive salary, we offer the opportunity to work from home for part of the week, and when you are in the office you’ll be surrounded by acres of beautiful parkland in the South Manchester area.

Candidates will be required to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK before commencing employment.

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