Technician (sound bias)

Closing date: 5th February at 11:55pm

Salary: £36,900 -£40,850 per annum (inclusive of Inner London Weighting). Grade C.

Contract: This is a full-time, permanent position.

Hours: This is an irregular shift-based role spread over 7 days that includes weekend and evening work.

Department: Music

Bring your technical skills and sound experience to the music department at a leading international arts organisation.

The Barbican is an international arts, conference and learning organisation in the heart of the City of London. Across its theatres, concert halls, cinemas, galleries, business venues, public and community spaces, the Barbican showcases the most exciting artists and performers from around the world, pushing traditional artistic boundaries and helping us understand our lives in new and unexpected ways. Each year, the Centre presents hundreds of different performances, events and exhibitions that entertain and inspire millions of people, create connections, provoke debate, and reflect the world we live in.

Our Barbican Concert Hall is seeking an experienced and passionate individual to join the Music Department as a Technician with a specialism in sound. This will include experience of basic sound equipment maintenance, the ability to follow stage plans to determine microphone positions and patching, along with experience of Digico mixing consoles and networks in a professional setting. The post holder will be working alongside a team of colleagues in the delivery of high-level technical support to all music & commercial events in the Barbican Concert Hall, Foyers, and Commercial Venues. You will be comfortable working in a team environment, expressing a can-do attitude, even under challenging circumstances.

Responsibilities

• The Technician will work in close co-operation with the Stage and Technical Management Team and the Technical Supervisors to affect the delivery of the Barbican’s events to one international standard.
• They will prepare, rig, and operate sound, lighting, and audio-visual equipment to meet the level of technical service required by the operational schedule of the Barbican Centre.

Knowledge, skills and experience

This position requires:

• A high level of experience and competence in sound.
• A general understanding of other technical production disciplines, such as lighting, and AV equipment for a wide range of music, commercial and streamed events.
• Alternatively, if you have experience in sound and are eager to learn and would like to develop further additional skills in these other areas of technical support then we can provide this training for you.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. 

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.