Casual Lighting and Sound Technician, Sunderland Empire, High Street West

The Casual Lighting and Sound Technician Role involves working as part of a team reporting to the Technical Manager and Head of Lighting and Sound. You will work closely with visiting companies, touring teams, contractors, and other ATG venue staff. As part of the venue technical team, you will support all productions and events programmed, ensuring their technical requirements are achieved. This role provides a professional, enabling, and efficient service for all customers and visitors to ATG’s venues. Please note, your role may involve working with children or vulnerable people.

Key responsibilities:

• Welcome and assist visiting production technical staff and companies to the venue, ensuring they are treated appropriately and always as an important and valued client.
• Support the full-time technical staff in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of fit-ups, shows, and get-outs, in line with company policy, current health and safety legislation, and the requirements of the visiting production or event.
• Take pride in your working environment at all times ensuring that work areas are clean, tidy, and safe.
• Under the direction of the full-time technical staff, assist as required in the inspection, servicing, and maintenance of the stage machinery and production equipment.
• Work safely at all times, proactively identify risks to yourself, other colleagues, and customers' health, safety, or security and take appropriate actions to keep everyone safe.
• Implement and comply with the company Health & Safety Policy, maintaining the safest possible environment for your colleagues, visiting companies, and customers.
• Attend training as required developing skills and knowledge relevant to the role.
• Work collaboratively as a team member, working well with others to ensure all required tasks are completed.
• Maintain a can-do, professional attitude.
• Proactively identify tasks which need to be done and take responsibility for completing them.

Your skills, qualities, and experience:

Essential:

• Relevant experience in stage lighting and sound systems.
• Working knowledge of current Health & Safety Regulations.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to act on initiative.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to deliver a high level of customer service.
• Willingness to work the required hours, including evenings and late nights, weekends, and public holidays.
• Physically able to lift and move technical equipment and scenic items safely and sensibly.
• Able to work at height which may include working on a grid and using ladders.
• Ability to work well as part of a team.

Desirable:

• Working knowledge of operating follow spots.
• Working knowledge of LX and sound fit-ups and get-outs.
• Working knowledge of lighting desks (ETC EOS).
• Computer Literacy.
• Numeracy Skills.

If you are able to demonstrate many of the essential criteria, we encourage you to apply and welcome transferable skills from other industries or backgrounds. We can give experience of any desirable criteria but may also use them to decide between candidates for this role.

If you’d like to discuss accessibility prior to applying, please email recruitment@atgentertainment.com for a confidential discussion.

Salary: £12.71 per hour

Closing Date: 2026-06-19

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure that people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged, and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.