Technical Casual

ATG Entertainment Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 29,000; Part time

Job summary

ATG Entertainment Limited is seeking Casual Theatre Technicians to join our busy Alexandra venue in central Birmingham. You will support lighting, sound, stage and flys, and wardrobe teams, assisting visiting production staff and ensuring smooth get-ins and get-outs.

This role requires flexibility to work evenings, weekends and holidays, with a focus on safety, customer service and teamwork within a dynamic live events environment.

Qualifications

• Some relevant experience in stage, flying, lighting or sound environment.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Ability to work well as part of a team.
• Strong communication and customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Welcome visiting production staff and companies, ensuring they are treated as important clients.
• Support full-time staff in fit-ups, shows and get-outs in line with policy and health and safety rules.
• Keep work areas clean, tidy and safe at all times.
• Work safely and identify risks to health, safety or security and take action.
• Attend required training to develop relevant skills.
• Collaborate with team to complete tasks and maintain professional attitude.
• Proactively identify tasks and take responsibility for completing them.

Skills

Stage lighting

Stage sound

Technical support

Customer service

Tools

ETC EOS

Job description

Casual Theatre Technician

You’ll report to the Deputy Technical Manager but also work closely with the Senior Technicians and the whole Technical Management team.

The Alexandra is a busy receiving house in the centre of Birmingham. Shows vary from number one touring productions to comedians and one-night events. Our casual teams truly are at the heart of our operation providing technical support for get-ins, get-outs and show operations. Working closely with touring companies, promotors and artists; customer experience and reputation is as important to us as knowledge and skills.

We are recruiting for all departments within the casual team:

• Lighting
• Sound
• Stage & Flys
• Wardrobe / Dressers

We are seeking exceptional candidates to take us into this new season with the energy and attitude that has become synonymous with "The Alexandra".

Please note, your role may involve working with children or vulnerable people.

Key responsibilities

• Welcome and assist visiting production technical staff and companies to the venue ensuring they are treated appropriately and always as an important client.
• Support the full-time technical staff in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of fit-ups, shows and get outs, in line with company policy, current health and safety legislation and the requirements of the visiting production or event.
• Always take pride in your working environment ensuring that work areas are clean, tidy and safe.
• Always work safely; proactively identify risks to yourself, other colleagues and customers health, safety or security and take appropriate actions to keep everyone safe.
• Implement and comply with the company Risk Management Policy, maintaining the safest possible environment for your colleagues, visiting companies and customers.
• Attend training as required developing skills and knowledge relevant to the role.
• Work collaboratively as a team member, working well with others to ensure all required tasks are completed.
• Maintain a can do, professional attitude.
• Proactively identify tasks which need to be done and take responsibility for completing them.

Essential

• Some relevant experience in either stage, flying, lighting or sound environment
• Problem solving skills and the ability to act on initiative
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Ability to work well as part of a team
• Communication skills
• Ability to deliver a high level of customer service
• Able to work at height which may include working on a grid and using ladders
• Physically fit; able to lift and move technical equipment and scenic items safely and sensibly
• Willingness to work the required hours, including evenings and late nights, weekends and public holidays

Desirable

• Working knowledge of Counterweight Flying Systems (double purchase)
• Knowledge of the lighting and sound equipment we frequently use, including ETC EOS
• Experience operating Follow Spots
• Working knowledge of current Health & Safety Regulations

About Us - Our values

• THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
• CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
• DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
• PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)

Our Corporate Social Responsibility pillars

Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to play their part in achieving our goals and upholding our Corporate Social Responsibility priorities:

• Inclusion: Committing to creating and upholding a positive, inclusive culture that nurtures potential and supports well-being.
• Sustainability: Playing your part in reducing our environmental impact and finding more sustainable ways of working.
• Next Generations: Encouraging the next generation in live entertainment by contributing to our outreach and training programmes, including mentoring students and trainees, and supporting our Creative Learning and Community Partnerships work.

Our culture

You’ll help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures.

We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.

Our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Mission Statement - A Stage for Everyone

Our stages are a platform for compelling stories – stories that are for all, by all, and of all. We shine our spotlight on our differences and believe that understanding and celebrating these differences makes us better global citizens. We are passionate about the pursuit of true diversity and equality. We strive to make our venues beacons of these ideals in our communities. Onstage and off, we hold ourselves accountable for nurturing an inclusive culture, one in which everyone can bring their authentic selves. At ATG entertainment, we provide a stage for everyone.

We recognise that we do not have all the answers; but we strive to listen, to learn and to change in order to ensure ATG Entertainment becomes a truly inclusive organisation. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from individuals from the widest possible range of backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from those currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.