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Event IT Technician

£29,000 - £33,000
East Sussex
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On-Site Event IT Technician

£29,000 - £33,000 (DOE) + Annual Bonus

Brighton, with UK travel

Our client is a hugely successful events services company based in Brighton. They provide a high-end combination of technical systems, infrastructure and customer services for their client’s events. They are a small but growing company and have been operating for over 15 years and they offer a high-end service to some of the world’s top brands!

You will be responsible for supporting the event registration technology at events, setting-up at and planning for events, and providing client liaison. You will be required to travel to events across the UK and overnight stays will be required.

Benefits:

  • Holiday:25 days holiday + bank holidays.
  • Compensation for overnight stays.
  • Vehicle provided to travel to and from events
  • Annual bonus.
  • Government pension.

Our client writes and continually develops all their own systems for checking people in, printing badges, tracking delegate details, dinner seating, accommodation, transport etc. They deliver this on-site through a variety of IT infrastructure solutions that vary according to the event’s needs including:

  • Site servers – laptops that sync event data to our main systems.
  • PCs & Laptops for registration helpdesks.
  • Handheld tablet check-in & smart phone style QR scanners.
  • Various networked printers for different types of badges.
  • Local network, with internal WiFi.
  • Internet WAN connections via venue supplied hard lines / WiFi / 4G

The On-Site Event IT Technician Duties:

  • Travelling and working at events across the UK and beyond. Whilst they manage staff time carefully, this role involves a lot of travel and time away from home.
  • Picking up equipment and transporting it to the event venue.
  • Setting up computers, network, wifi, printers etc.
  • Troubleshooting systems and ensuring everything is working as intended for this specific event, usually in a tight timescale.
  • Managing and monitoring the system throughout the event (could be hours or days) and supporting staff who have any issues using the system.
  • Helping to manage and maintain our equipment whilst it is not onsite including ensuring kits are 100% correct and ready to go out.
  • Ensuring all equipment prepared for a job is operating correctly – installing updates and drivers where needed, configuring new equipment and kit, conduct PAT testing etc.
  • Packing down and returning equipment to the store.
  • Assisting with attendee registration and other team roles as required.

The successful Event Technician will have:

  • General good working knowledge of basic IT systems, small networks and WiFi.
  • Happy to travel to events all over the UK and spend nights away from home (Could be as much as 75% of your time working away during busy periods).
  • Ability to multitask and be proactive, often planning and delivering multiple events at once.
  • Professional and presentable in corporate environments, liaising directly with our clients and their delegate’s onsite, many of whom are often senior company directors or VIPs.
  • Full UK Driving Licence is mandatory for this role.

Working hours: Core hours are 9am to 5.30pm in the office, with likely early morning and late evening on event days (with time off in lieu).

Interested?

Apply now and we can discuss this in more detail and provide you with a more detailed job description.

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