Technical Product Specialist - Lighting
About The Position
Live Events is a national live event production company and AV partner with hubs in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Orlando, specializing in concerts, festivals, corporate events, and sports. Our full-service team delivers stage lighting, professional audio, LED video walls, and rigging for live entertainment across the country. Join a crew that powers some of the biggest stages across the country. The Technical Product Specialist - Lighting is responsible for system design, and engineering of lighting systems. The specialist will work closely with internal teams as well as external production managers, technical directors, and other individuals to provide the highest quality product to clients of Live Events. Success in this role requires both deep technical expertise and a solutions-focused, customer-service mindset in fast-paced live event environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with lighting systems in live event production and production.
- Genuine customer service orientation.
- Proficiency of computers and software such as Rental Management Systems, Vector Works, Excel, Word and other similar programs.
- Knowledge of lighting equipment, operation and principles of lighting.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment with minimal supervision, applying critical and strategic thinking to make sound business decisions, raising issues to management as appropriate and offering value-added solutions both proactively and in response to a variety of situations.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, consultative, project management, time management, organization and implementation skills.
- Ability to work independently and under extreme pressure on multiple tasks with little or no supervision under tight deadlines in a high volume-demanding environment.
- Ability to work as part of a team and support all programs where necessary including assisting on projects that fall outside of the role when required.
Responsibilities
- Interpret production designs and translate them into technical lighting system layouts.
- Create detailed equipment lists, signal flow diagrams, and deployment plans.
- Collaborate with sales, project managers and engineering to ensure accurate pre-production planning.
- Consult with design and structure engineers to best offer solutions for special project layouts and meet client requirements.
- Assist sales with creating and building quotes / pull sheets and other elements.
- Collaborate with outside vendors for engineered solution rentals.
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues under time-critical conditions.
- Develop and implement standardized quality control (QC) processes for lighting systems.
- Assist with development and deployment of lighting related training programs.
- May involve some in person development.
- Stay current and knowledgeable of the latest industry equipment, technology, services, and best practices
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
