Derek Tallent

We are looking for a Full Time AV Technician to join us at Press Red Rentals Limited. We are an AV rentals company in our 20th year, based in Telford Shropshire, covering events throughout the UK and across Europe.

Working primarily in Live Events and Exhibitions you will be involved in the delivery, installation, operation and maintenance of professional video, lighting, IT and audio equipment.

Roles and Responsibilities
•    Delivery, Installation, Operation, monitoring, and maintenance of professional video, lighting, IT and audio equipment
•    Coordinate crew and equipment as needed
•    Provide technical support to our clients
•    Troubleshoots as needed to satisfy the end user's needs 
•    Experience working within a tech company and/or customer-facing role is a plus
•    Strong self-starter who can demonstrate and be open to learning
•    Organized
•    Ability to take direction well
•    Participation in training as required
•    Testing and preparing AV equipment for installation.

Qualifications
•    Full Clean Driving License
•    Knowledge of LED, Video, Audio, IT, Lighting is a plus
•    Good Troubleshooting skills
•    Strong Communication skills, team player, customer service skills

Requirements
•    This can be quite a physical job, that may involve the need to regularly stand and walk, as well as push, pull, bend, climb, reach, twist, and kneel, and lift and/or move 25kg. 
•    Good Communication Skills
•    Must live within a commutable distance of our headquarters in Telford
•    Must be legally entitled to live and work in the United Kingdom
Hours and Salary
•    Full Time – Minimum 37.5 Hours per week
•    Paid overtime will be required which may include early mornings, late nights and weekends. Travel and Overnight stops are also required as part of this role.  These are a need of the business and are to be expected by any applicant as part of the role.
•    Dependent upon experience and skills, the basic salary will be between £25,000 and £32,500 per annum

If you are self-motivated, flexible and have the required skills and abilities together the desire to work with some of the most exciting technologies around in a company who are committed to career growth and development, please send your CV and a covering email to jobs@pressred.biz for the attention of Jamie McDonald.
 

Press Red Rentals Limited is a small but fast-growing company providing Audio-Visual, IT, Lighting, Sound and Video equipment hire for trade shows, conferences and events across the UK at Europe.

 

To help manage this growth we are now looking to strengthen our management team with the appointment of an Event Technician Team Manager to lead and manage our team of Event Technicians in the delivery of projects.

 

This position is full-time, and based at our premises in Telford, Shropshire.

 

You will be an experienced all-round technician with previous supervisory experience, used to heading up on-site teams at trade shows and events across the EU. You will have the ability to work under pressure, be excellent in a hands-on environment and have great customer skills when dealing with clients on site.

 

The main duties of this role are:

 

To provide leadership, direction and technical support to your team and sub-contractors when on site or in the warehouse setting.

 

To not be afraid of getting your hands dirty when out on site with your team, and to be prepared to install equipment when required.

 

To plan and schedule work for your team on an ongoing basis to ensure projects are covered by the correct number of technicians with the correct skill set

 

To work with the warehouse team to assist with equipment preparation, vehicle loading and unloading and equipment check-in

 

To ensure all relevant paperwork is completed prior to travelling to site (RAMS etc) and that on-site paperwork (delivery notes) etc is completed in accordance with company procedures

 

In addition to the duties of running your own team, you will be expected to work with the other members of the management team in the following areas:

 

To identify skill shortages and to recommend/plan training for staff

 

To provide input to proposal documents, quotations and tenders where required

 

To analyse market trends and to recommend new products and services for investment.

 

About the successful candidate

 

Previous extensive experience as an event technician is essential; this might be as an employee of an events AV company, within a venue, or, as a freelance technician. Ability to thrive under pressure of a live event. Supervisory experience essential.

 

A keen eye for detail, with a high standard of equipment presentation is vital, along with good IT skills and competency with MS Office and Current RMS etc.

 

Flexibility and the willingness to travel is a key part of this role. Our on-site teams often work weekends and evenings - this can include bank holidays.

 

A clean driving licence, and the ability to drive 3.5t vans is a pre-requisite for this position, as is a current valid passport. The ability to be able to drive vehicles larger than 3.5t would be an advantage.

 

About this position:

 

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

 

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 + add-ons

 

Benefits: Company Pension

 

Our basic working week is 37.5hrs (nominally 9am-5pm with 30minutes for lunch), with evening and weekend working where required. Overtime is paid where required.

 

We offer 28 days paid holiday per year (including bank holidays).

 

We are currently reviewing staff benefits and looking at a new bonus scheme and performance-related bonus.

 

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom.

 

To apply for this position, please send your CV with a covering email to rentals@pressred.biz

8 hours ago, KevinE said:

difficult to glean exactly what happened from a newspaper. They're not the most accurate source of facts, believe me.

Indeed. If you look at the last set of accounts for the financial year 2019 the company lost £500k that year and then the pandemic hit. The phoenixing didn't happen until 2021, just over two years after the poor chap lost his life. If you were going to phoenix to avoid a HSE investigation/prosecution, wouldn't you do it almost immediately after the incident.

I may be wrong, but I think HSE can still prosecute the directors even if the company has gone into administration or liquidation.

The Dutch are correct.... 

Phil, have a look at the JTS products:

https://www.fbtaudio.co.uk/jts/wireless/headsets-and-lavaliers/

Come as standard with a 4-pin XLR but the cable can be swapped for a 3-pin XLR

And, I can sort you our a loaner to evaluate....

6 hours ago, ImagineerTom said:

The problem is that the rules and principles from before simply don't exist any more; there's an awful lot of legislation and principles that were grandfathered in when we were all members of the same club. Now we're not a member (and currently in the "3rd nation" category) not only do those old norms no longer exist but also, until new agreements are in place, we have the lowest ranking and least leeway so simply assuming it will be business as normal isn't a good idea. I'm speaking here not as an outside but as someone who has actively been involved in importing/exporting/transporting "showbiz" stuff post Brexit in and out of the continent over the past year and for much larger events going forwards. Far and away the biggest problem we encounter is that so many fringe elements of compliance and co-operation don't even have a tick box on the paperwork; let alone guidance notes and expertise; admittedly we are at the fringes of the already fringe showbusiness industry but none the less there are real frictions and problems because of the grey areas that currently sit where before there were well established process's.

The other big issue is that the customs staff at the borders in France, Netherlands and UK don't always seem to know what they should be doing when stamping a carnet.

I think we're in danger of "over thinking" this. We've been running vans and trucks into Europe for years on an "own goods" basis. Our Restricted Operators Licence means that we are unable to operate on a "Hire or Reward" basis which is charging other people for carrying their goods (ie a Haulier or Courier)

"Own Goods" should be defined as anything you're using for your production - even if it's sub-hired it doesn't matter. We've been stopped by DVSA in the UK, and the French equivalent on random checks, and not a problem.

Unless you're working as a courier or haulage company, you won't need an operators licence to run your van into Europe.

Not if you're carrying your own goods you don't. Only if you're carrying goods for other people as a courier or haulier, for example.

Happy to help..... 

11 hours ago, kerry davies said:

Think it is the same Bill Hanley that is pictured above. Woodstock, Shea Stadium, Bill Graham's Fillmores and the Bloomfield/Butterfield/Dylan electric gig were just some of the notches on his fader. He was the US version of Charlie Watkins though younger. If still with us he would be 84.  

 

Bill Hanley is still with us...

why is England in such a rush to put dates before data?

 

When asked why Wales was being more cautious than England my local AM and Education Minister replied; "Wales is following UK/SAGE scientific guidance."

ERG headbangers. I'll make no further comment lest I have to moderate myself.

 

I think they've rebranded as the CRG....

Seems sensible and cost effective for the exhibitors and visitors

Not ideal for stand builders/suppliers/venue staff etc

 

It's better to have a chance of one show rather than nothing at all ?

This has been one of the most polite political conversations I've had on the Internet for years....

True. The whole vote leave campaign was very slick and built around one headline issue. Sadly, that headline issue was a lie.

 

True but it was kicking at an open door. Let's face it for their own doctrinaire reasons quite large numbers of politicians on both side have been at best lukewarm about the EU for years and Corbin was useless from start to finish. And after all there's not exactly wholehearted support amongst the population in many member states. Personally I support both the ideals and the institutions but sadly many of the politicians and politcoes forming the public face are execrable examples of mediocrity.

 

Most businesses will simply have to go back to running subsidiary operations overseas like they often do outside the EU.

 

Very true. The remain campaign was lacklustre and deserved to lose, having been run by a group of people that thought they couldn't lose.

 

Corbyn is a different kettle of fish. He's always been a leaver, but wouldn't admit to it whilst leader of the Labour party for fear of alienating the core Labour vote. However, by sitting on the fence like he did, he succeeding in alienating the core Labour vote and handed the Conservatives a landslide.

 

Fortunately for us, we set up a place in the Netherlands a couple of years ago to handle our European work. Sadly we've had to mothball it due to the pandemic, but we'll get it back up and running soon....

Most of the negatives we now have, I don't think I was aware of - I don't know why.

 

I like to think I make a reasonable effort to keep up with politics and current affairs. But I don't remember hearing any concerns about the Irish border situation until after the referendum.

 

"The public only pays attention to a tiny subset of issues that politicians and the media bang on about."..."Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the Single Market? No way" - Dominic Cummins Blog

 

True. The whole vote leave campaign was very slick and built around one headline issue. Sadly, that headline issue was a lie.

I'm having to take it on the chin - I was wrong. I voted to leave. I had a choice and clearly made the wrong one.

 

Fair play for admitting that, I think you're about the only person on the internet that has.

 

Indeed. It takes a big man to admit he was wrong. Besides people shouldn't be vilified for voting leave. Many fell for the lies of the leave campaign and the years of anti-EU bias from certain sections of the media.

 

We've left, and regardless of which way we voted we have to get on and make the best of it.

Maybe - but it should be a two way street. The UK touring market will suffer if we cannot go to EU, but equally when they come here, they expect access. Are we requiring visas? It looks to me like Tui are blaming Brexit, but plenty of holiday locations are outside Europe, and visa processing is part of what holiday firms do all the time - excluding the UK is grossly unfair - and of course the recruitment is usually done by a UK company, who now find themselves excluding UK citizens. I think it's discrimination - others will disagree.

 

Well the EU offered a deal on not needing visas and work permits but our government turned it down as it didnt want to to give visiting musicians and crew longer than thirty days work in the UK without a permit or visa.

 

It's grossly unfair that our own political masters are taking our rights away.

On Facebook, Tui are looking for overseas resort technicians - but UK passport holders are not acceptable. Considering a large majority of their customers are Brits, there is a double standard here.

 

Hi all, we are currently looking for technicians for our upcoming Summer contract for TUI Blue and TUI Gold concepts in various European destinations. We are looking for NON-UK passport holders only on this occasion. If you are interested in finding out more please feel free to email me at xxxxxxxxxxxx

Many thanks and stay safe!!!

 

If it's a resort in Europe then UK Passport holders will need work permits and visas, so why go through all the hassle when there's good technical staff available from 31 other countries that don't need them? It's a result of Brexshit taking away our Freedom of Movement Rights.

I'm getting very confused. I'm VAT registered and have a GB EORI - but have just realised I now need an XI EORI to go between England and Northern Ireland. I've got myself completely confused - has anyone done this and got sorted - the forms seem very confusing, and I've gone round in circles!

 

Are you doing a temporary import/export or are you selling kit to a customer in NI

 

If it's something like a hire job, where the kit goes in and out of NI, then you'll need a carnet.

 

For selling kit, you'll need an NI Eori number as well, and then what happens next is anyone's guess.

Just extending the furlough isn't going to solve many problems. My team have been on furlough since the end of March, and whilst it's been reassuring to have the wages covered there's still all the other usual overheads that have to be paid, without any income.

 

I suspect that even if the furlough scheme is extended, the end of October will be the end of the road for many in our industry, unless some grant funding to support the supply chain is put in place.

That's looking at the problem from the PoV of an employer .

From the employees' PoV the JRS/furlough means they MIGHT still have their jobs in a few more months perhaps if it's extended, without putting too much pressure on the company that manages them.

 

It is a long shot, either way, but yep - many companies and the support firms are going to be unable to continue for much longer without another injection...

:(

 

I think that's a pretty fair assessment.

Petitions these days are like standing ovations - there are so many of them, many of them started on such a flimsy pretext, that they've been rendered pretty much worthless.

Fair points.

There's actually another one that's crossed my FB feed - https://platform.organise.org.uk/campaigns/rishi-sunak-extend-furlough

Same 'Organise' platform.

I did mail the latter to suggest they might like to join forces with the other... No reply as yet.

But between them they do have over 40,000 'signatures'...

 

Who knows...?

 

Just extending the furlough isn't going to solve many problems. My team have been on furlough since the end of March, and whilst it's been reassuring to have the wages covered there's still all the other usual overheads that have to be paid, without any income.

 

I suspect that even if the furlough scheme is extended, the end of October will be the end of the road for many in our industry, unless some grant funding to support the supply chain is put in place.

We took the punt and ordered one for evaluation. It'll be interesting to see when it actually turns up, although Mr. Behringer himself posted on Linkedin that they're shipping from the factory next month, so they may have learned from previous product launches where it could be years from announcement to delivery

 

To follow up on this, the first of two WIMGs that we ordered arrived this morning.

 

We're just waiting for the flightcase to arrive on Monday and then it'll be ready to hire.

 

If there's anyone in the West Midlands area who fancies popping over to our place in Telford to have a quick play with this formidable piece of kit, please let me know and I'll see what I can arrange.

We took the punt and ordered one for evaluation. It'll be interesting to see when it actually turns up, although Mr. Behringer himself posted on Linkedin that they're shipping from the factory next month, so they may have learned from previous product launches where it could be years from announcement to delivery

The Unilumin is better than the Gloshine.

 

We prefer Absen to Unilumin as the support from PSCo is excellent.

Yes. Definitely. The biggest problem we have in the corporate marketplace is making customers appreciate the value of having a good technician. They'll create a stink at paying, say £40.00 per hour for an AV tech, but think nothing of paying the local car dealership £95 per hour to service their fancy German car...

 

The usual line when someone thinks we're too expensive on labour is do you know how much a plumber or electrician costs per hour? They soon get the message..