Senior Lighting Technician

The NEC Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading events company as a Senior Lighting Technician, focusing on delivering high-quality event experiences across major venues. In this role, you will lead a team, manage technical delivery, and ensure exceptional service and support during events while enjoying a package that includes a competitive salary, generous leave, and various benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Pension matching up to 7%

Free onsite parking and lunch

Life Assurance cover

Exclusive Discounts

Qualifications

• Significant proven experience in lighting for live events.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Experience working to financial targets.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical support for events and manage crew.
• Stay updated with new products and technologies.
• Provide expertise focused on lighting for event delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Focus

Communication

Job description

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Join the NEC Group and be part of something extraordinary!

Senior Lighting Technician

The NEC Group is looking for talented and passionate individuals to join our dynamic team. Our mission is to create unforgettable experiences through world-class events and services.

We have a fantastic opening for a Senior Lighting Technician to join our Conventions team.

You will be working across our two convention centres, at the ICC in Birmingham City Centre and Vox on the NEC Campus in Solihull. These venues provide conference and meeting space for up to 8,000 delegates, welcoming over 350,000 delegates every year! And you will be part of a first-class team that is renowned for delivering incredible events.

About The Role

As Senior Lighting Technician you will be a team leader for the Technical department across convention venues, with responsibility for the day to day running of the technical delivery department.

You will provide technical support/expertise across all disciplines whilst ensuring a high level of service delivery from all staff and equipment during get ins, set ups, get outs and will also operate events as required alongside the Technicians.

Day to day you will:

• Deliver events and work in close contact with the client and/ or the clients production company, following written instruction given by the Production/Event Manager for the successful delivery all events.
• Working unsupervised and be responsible for all crew during live events.
• Stay up to date with new products and technologies, identifying smarter ways of operating, developing staff, equipment, and planning resources so as to ensure the highest level of delivery is achieved.
• To provide a specialist level of technical expertise across all areas of the event delivery with a focus being on Lighting.

About You

Our Ideal Candidate will:

• Have significant proven experience and expertise in lighting within live event technical delivery.
• Have strong leadership and people management skills with a focus of building motivated and engaged teams.
• Strong customer focus and demonstrably proactive in approach - can do attitude.
• Experience of working to financial targets
• Confident, articulate, communicator possessing excellent written and verbal communication skills.

We believe in people to people (we are a people first business), love of difference (because embracing and celebrating difference brings our business to life) and being moment makers (memories are made here - so we make every moment matter).

What We Offer

• Salary up to £39,000 per annum
• 25 days annual leave rising to 26 after one year plus all UK bank
• holidays
• Free onsite parking and lunch when working
• Pension matching up to 7% (and you can contribute more)
• Life Assurance cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental, Cash Health, and Holiday Buy
• Exclusive Discounts and many more great benefits

The NEC Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. NEC Group is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm, you will find a home within the NEC Group.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.

Disclaimer: due to high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date.