Event Display Installer

Brite Nites • Oklahoma City, OK

62d • $19 - $21 • Onsite

About The Position

Brite Nites is hiring a crew of eight in Oklahoma City to build large-format illuminated displays. This is not Christmas light installation; it is large-format display construction. You will be building the large illuminated sculptures that fill outdoor venues each fall. Some pieces stand three stories tall; some run the length of a walking path. They arrive crated as steel frames and fabric, and your crew assembles them on site, sets them, secures them against wind, wires them, and lights them. Every tool, lift, and material is supplied. You bring the work.

Requirements

• 18 or older, authorized to work in the United States.
• Able to get yourself to the job site in Oklahoma City six days a week.
• Comfortable working at height from boom and scissor lifts.
• Able to lift 50 lbs or more repeatedly and work on your feet through a 10-hour day.
• Available six days a week for the full October 12 through November 5 window.
• Valid driver's license preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Forklift, telehandler, boom lift or scissor lift certification
• Experience towing a flatbed trailer
• Electrical experience with temporary power, load balancing and distribution
• OSHA-10 or OSHA-30
• Rigging or stagehand experience
• Spanish and English bilingual

Responsibilities

• Assemble displays from parts: bolt up steel frames, fit and stretch the fabric skins, set them on their footings.
• Secure everything against wind: drive stakes, run wind rope, place ballast, set expansion bolts, install steel back-bracing.
• Work at height: the big pieces run up to 26 feet tall. Boom lifts and scissor lifts, not ladders.
• Inspect and repair reused sets. A lot of inventory moves between venues and some of it arrives rough.
• Run power: pull and dress cords, connect plug-in whips, balance loads across the show.
• Hang the ambient work: light strings and canopies, PAR fixtures up in trees, signage, tents.
• Tear down: disassemble, inventory, pack, and load onto flatbeds at end of run.
• Keep the site clean. You are working around live landscaping, finished surfaces, and public walkways.

Benefits

• Bi-weekly pay on a set schedule for the run of the project.
• Full-time hours. 8-10 hour days, six days a week, for the whole run. The hours are real, not promised.
• Local work: one site, a daily commute, no travel and no hotel. That is unusual for display work this size.
• A short, defined run of 22 work days with a known start and end.
• Training provided. Nobody arrives knowing how to build these; your crew leader teaches it.
• Crew-based work, so you are never solo.
• More work here. Brite runs work in this market through the holiday season, so do this run well and there is a next one.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed