Live Event Technician Apprentice

About the role

🚀 Apprentice Live Event Technician at Colonel Tom 🚀

Ready to dive headfirst into the electrifying world of live events? 🤩 This is your chance to kickstart your career in the production industry, getting hands-on with pro gear and tech. As our Live Event Technician Apprentice, you’ll team up with seasoned pros, prepping, testing, maintaining, and managing all the technical equipment for awesome live projects. 🛠️

You'll start with a deep dive into our warehouse, mastering how we get equipment ready, keep it in top shape, and deploy it. 📦 Think of it as building your superpower knowledge of all things tech! You’ll get familiar with cutting-edge LED screen tech and build a solid understanding of what makes live event production tick. 💡

Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It):

• Get gear prepped and ready for action, then carefully de-prepped afterwards.
• Put LED screen tiles and their buddies through their paces with thorough testing.
• Tackle basic maintenance, sniff out and fix any faults. 🧐
• Keep our warehouse looking sharp: check, sort, and store equipment like a boss after every gig.
• Juggle our company assets like a pro using our inventory software. 🗂️
• Master the art of loading and unloading equipment from vehicles. 🚚
• Pack gear safely and smartly for its journey.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and super safe warehouse environment. ✅
• Be the support hero for project prep, ensuring everything's ready to meet those tight deadlines.
• Crush it collaboratively with our warehouse, ops, and project teams. 🤝
• Be a safety champion, always following health and safety procedures and best practices. 💯
• Level up your technical skills and take on more awesome responsibility as you grow. 💪

Beyond the Warehouse:

You'll also get a peek behind the curtain of real-life events! 🎭 Working with Project Managers and experienced teams, you'll gain invaluable practical experience. As you develop, you might even support setup, operation, troubleshooting, and breakdown of equipment on live projects. 🎤

What We're Searching For:

No prior live events experience? No sweat! We're looking for pure passion and a hunger to learn. 🔥 If you're:

• Super interested in live events, production, AV, LED, or tech gear. 🎧
• Love getting your hands dirty with practical, hands-on work. 🙌
• Excited to learn and adapt to new technology. 💻
• Got that eagle eye for detail and love staying organized. ✨
• Reliable, always on time, and great at following instructions. ⏰
• Bringing a positive and proactive vibe to everything you do. 😎
• A true team player who thrives in a collaborative environment. 🤗
• Eager to soak up knowledge from industry legends. 🎓

What You'll Gain (The Loot! 🏆):

You'll build serious skills in live event technical production, LED tech wizardry, gear prep and testing, fault finding, maintenance, safe working, logistics, inventory mastery, and how live events actually flow.

📍 Reporting: You'll report to the Operations Manager for warehouse operations and work under the guidance of the relevant Project Manager and technical team when supporting live projects.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and de-prep technical equipment for live projects.
• Test LED screen tiles and associated equipment.
• Carry out basic maintenance, fault finding and repairs.
• Check, organise and correctly store equipment following projects.
• Process, track and manage company assets using inventory software.