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Rigging and Special Events Technician

Role: Rigging and Special Events Technician

Team: Technical & Production

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 25 March 2025

Salary: Competitive

The Scottish Event Campus (SEC) - comprising the SEC Centre, SEC Armadillo and The OVO Hydro - is Scotland's premier destination for events.  We enjoy an enviable reputation as one of Europe’s most prestigious venues, hosting a significant number of live events, conferences and exhibitions for our richly varied client and customer base.

We are looking for a full time Rigging and Special Events Technician with significant experience in Lighting and Rigging, to join our Technical & Production team in line with our vision of becoming the Best Event Campus in Europe.

Our team works closely together in a busy environment, ensuring that all expectations are exceeded by providing the highest standard of production services to each event.  The Rigging and Special Events Technician, will take a hands-on role in assisting with logistics, scheduling and delivery of our event production services, primarily focussed on technical support, and on the floor installations.

 Key responsibilities

  • To identify effective technical production solutions, matched to individual client requirements.
  • To actively engage in delivering technical support to all allocated events, ensuring best customer experience and legislative compliance from all stakeholders.
  • To assist in the design, planning and installation strategy of event rigging and lighting, providing creative design solutions where appropriate.
  • To work alongside members of the technical and production team, freelance staff and sub-contractors in the efficient and safe delivery of the SEC events.
  • To maintain SEC production lighting and rigging assets by working to a planned preventative maintenance Program.
  • To maintain an asset register of all lighting and rigging equipment, ensuring that statutory requirements for testing, inspection and maintenance are recorded.

Our ideal candidate

You will be hands-on, passionate, flexible and will be fully engaged in our high-performance culture. A specialist in the technical and production elements of event delivery, they should be able to display a knowledge of event rigging and large-scale event delivery across the live entertainment and confex sectors.

They will have a positive attitude and be driven to deliver seminal, life affirming event experiences for clients, delegates and attendees.  At all times, they will embrace our mission statement; Best Venues, Best People, Best Events and convey our core values of positivity, teamwork and collaboration.

Essential attributes include extensive experience of a hands-on technical role within an events setting. You should be able to show an understanding of industry health and safety protocols and technical standards.

IPAF certification, working at height training and a working knowledge of rigging techniques and practices, preferably to NRC level 2 are desirable.

Does this sound like the role for you?

If so, please send your CV and covering letter, outlining your skills and experience, our way.

The People Team, SEC, Glasgow, G3 8YW or peopleteam@sec.co.uk

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