Job Description
Title: AV Manager
Location: Queens Hotel, Leeds
Salary: 26.5k - 27.5k depending on experience (OTE 31k plus)
Package: Overtime and bonus available, health benefits, mobile phone, laptop.
Who are we?
Universal Live is a full-service technical solutions provider to the live event industry.
From our Head Office in West Yorkshire we provide equipment and support to live event clients including Event Management and Production Companies throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.
Specifically the company supplies Sound, Light, Vision, Stage, Power and Media.
As an employee, you’ll work alongside a dedicated team of professionals with a commitment to deliver great events and have some fun along the way.
Together we are Live.
www.universal-live.com
What you’ll be doing
Queens Hotel is one of our key clients and part of our venue portfolio where we provide AV equipment and on-site support. We are looking for an AV technician to provide technical support to clients based primarily at Queens but will be needed to also support other venues as extra cover, and for local hotel equipment set ups where required. The role will be working closely with the onsite AV Manager, delivering top class live events.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- To service all AV requirements as requested by clients through the hotel events team
- To offer technical advice and support to the venue’s AV Manager
- Ensuring that all kit is set up neatly and to a high standard.
- To keep an on-going stock check of equipment stored on site.
- To undertake basic maintenance and repairs of all venue based equipment
- To work with the hotel’s operations staff at the hotel to ensure each room has the correct set up of AV equipment
- To operate events as needed
- To help the venue AV Manager supervise any freelance staff who are working on our behalf
- To service AV equipment for a number of venues in the area
- To cover our venues when our other AV Managers are on Holiday, so flexibility to travel and stay away from time to time will be required
What you’ll need to do it:
The successful candidate will need to have a proven interest in the live event industry, ideally with hands on knowledge of audio visual, sound, lighting, rigging, set and staging equipment.
- Experience in a related role
- Hands on technical knowledge
- Knowledge and experience of the hotel conference industry would be an advantage
- The ability to self manage and self motivate whilst working in a team
- Good person management skills
- The ability to take your own initiative
- To be client facing and well presented
- The flexibility to work overtime as required and at short notice
- Attention to detail and a pride in their work
- To be hard working and enthusiastic
- A Full UK Driving Licence
- Be computer literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Visio, Word and Outlook.
The small print:
- This is a permanent full time post commencing as soon as possible.
- There is a probation period of six months.
- This is a full-time post with occasional evening and weekend working, for which overtime/lieu time will be paid.
- Basic hours of work are normally 08:00-17:00 with a one hour lunch break.
- Salary for this post is dependent on experience and on completion of probation.
- The holiday leave year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Holiday entitlement for full-time employees is 23 days per annum, including three days between Christmas and New Year, plus bank holidays.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £26,400.00-£27,500.00 per year
Benefits:
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Leeds LS1 1PJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
