Job title: Venues Technician (Casual)
Salary: B1 £13.05 - £13.47 p/h
Hours: 0 hours per week - Casual
Contract: Casual

Would you like to be part of something bigger and join us in our ambition to become the Best City, working together as a Team for Leeds. Do your values match ours and do you have something to offer?

Leeds City Council delivers over 500 different services to residents and is dedicated to bringing the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant and attractive city to the people of Leeds. This is a fantastic time to join us.

Benefits of working with us:

We pride ourselves on offering the best employee experience, with a genuine commitment to keeping our colleagues safe and well at work. You can expect great benefits whilst working for us including:

a competitive pay progression structure including generous employer pension contributions
flexible career paths with tailored personal and professional development
support for you, your home and your family including personal, and financial support
hybrid working arrangements (subject to needs of the role) and a flexi-time system.

For more information about our benefits please see the benefits section of our jobs page.

Introduction to the role of the team
Working within Leeds City Arts, Event’s & Venues alongside programming and operational teams, the candidate will be responsible for the technical provision provided within LCC venues alongside a small team of permanent and casual technicians.

Your role
To help manage and develop technical operations, ensuring the highest standards of technical provision and providing support and satisfaction for users of the Council’s public performance venues. You will be required to work across the portfolio of venues, currently Leeds Town Hall, Carriageworks Theatre, and Pudsey Civic Hall, along with any additional venues in the future. Currently this post is based at the Carriageworks Theatre.

Responsibilities

To provide full audio, lighting, stage and audio-visual support for performances and events including safe rigging, de-rigging and operation of audio, lighting, staging and video equipment throughout Leeds CC venues.
To provide technical and artistic support both within the Arts, Events & Venues service, and throughout LCC.
To provide the same for all professional and amateur companies, commercial and other ad hoc users of LCC venues.
To work closely with the Operational and other Arts, Events & Venues teams, to assist in the preparation of areas for meetings, conferences, and events as required.
To adhere to all relevant current legislation and to undertake the duties of the post in accordance with the Council’s Policies e.g. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Green Strategy, Health & Safety Legislation, etc.

You will be knowledgeable and personable, willing to share your knowledge with technicians and users and help them to realise their technical and creative ambitions. You will be enthusiastic and motivated, giving the same level of drive and energy into all tasks, and providing a first-class experience to everyone coming through Leeds CC venues.

NB: shifts are offered on an ad hoc basis according to operational needs; there are no minimum gaurantee hours / shifts offered with this post.

Please see job description for full list of responsibilities, desirable knowledge, skills and personal qualities.

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.

Job Description

Job purpose

To ensure the highest standards of technical provision, support and satisfaction for users of the Council’s public performance venues. You will be required to work across the portfolio of venues, currently Leeds Town Hall, Carriageworks Theatre, and Pudsey Civic Hall, along with any additional future venues. This post is currently based at the Carriageworks Theatre.

Responsibilities

To provide full audio, lighting, stage and audio-visual support for performances and events including safe rigging, de-rigging and operation of audio, lighting, staging and video equipment

To provide technical and artistic support both within the Arts, Events & Venues service, and throughout LCC. To provide the same for all professional and amateur companies, commercial and other ad hoc users of LCC venues.

To act as duty technician alongside full-time Venues Technician for visiting companies and to help ensure the smooth running of fit ups, get outs and performances, in line with both visiting company requirements and the relevant health and safety legislation.

To ensure the needs of the venues and its users are met by assisting the technical team in planning,for future productions, cleaning of work areas and maintenance of technical equipment.

To work closely with the Operational Team and other Arts, Events & Venues Teams to assist in the preparation of areas for meetings and conferences and functions.

To adhere to all relevant current legislation and to undertake the duties of the post in accordance with the Council’s Policies e.g. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Green Strategy, Health & Safety Legislation, etc.

Be aware of and comply with Leeds City Council policies and procedures e.g., child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality, and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.

Be aware of and support difference and ensure equality for all working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding, and promoting the values, standards, and equality & diversity policies of Leeds City Council.

Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation, and any form of abuse of equal opportunities, ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures.

The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the job evaluation outcome for this post.

Qualifications

A good standard of basic education i.e. GCSE Maths & English

Technical Theatre qualification or relevant technical qualification preferred and/or suitable level of working experience

Personal Specification

Method of assessment will be through CV & interview

Essential requirements

It is essential that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post within the context of the specific role duties and responsibilities:

Knowledge required

A good standard of rigging & operation of theatre lighting (ETC Ion console experience preferred) for multiple disciplines.

A good broad knowledge of venue audio systems including, rigging and operation

Knowledge of stage management in a theatre / venue setting

Operation of AV systems and software including Qlab

Experience required

Relevant technical experience working in a theatre environment

Confident operation of audio & lighting consoles pref Ion ETC & A&H Avantis for a range of events

Experience of carrying out basic electrical maintenance and testing

Experience of working collaboratively with non-professional theatre users

Skills required

Able to work flexibly across different work locations and areas as appropriate.

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work both unsupervised, and as part of a team

Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines

Basic computer skills (Word, Excel etc)

Behavioural and other Characteristics required

Committed to continuous improvement.

Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council equality and diversity policies.

Carry out all duties having regard to an employee’s responsibility under Health and Safety Policies.

Willingness to actively participate in training and development activities to ensure up to date knowledge, skills, and continuous professional development

Understand and embrace our values, behaviours and codes of conduct.

Desirable requirements

It is desirable that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post within the context of the specific role duties and responsibilities: Candidates are not required to meet all the desirable requirements however these may be used to distinguish between acceptable candidates.

Desirable skills

Design and operation of LX for theatre, musical theatre, dance, & corporate events

Design and operation of audio for theatrical / musical productions pref. using Allen & Heath Avensis console (or similar)

Operation of counterweight flying system
Good AV knowledge including hybrid meeting, live event streaming, video and sound editing.