Asset Operatives in Power Distribution/Sound and Rigging

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Position: Asset Operative in Power Distribution, Sound and Rigging

Location: Old Dalby, Leicestershire, LE14

Hours: 40 hours per week, plus overtime as required

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience

 

Hawthorn,the creative technical event production expert, has a number of fantastic opportunitiesto join the team of Asset Operatives looking after our extensive range of technical entertainment equipment, across a range of departments.

 

With a reputation for excellent customer service and high standards of equipment, Hawthorn is looking for organised, practical and friendly individuals to join our rapidly expanding team. Now is an exciting time to join the business and we're looking for enthusiastic people to join in our success.

 

We are currently looking for team members for the following departments:

 

• Power Distribution
• Sound
• Rigging

Your responsibilities

 

Your key responsibilities will include:

 

• Picking and preparing technical equipment for client hires
• Checking in, maintaining and testing technical equipment
• Familiarising yourself with the hire stock and be able to visually identify each item with its codes
• Undertaking stock checks
• Assisting in the on/off hiring and booking equipment on InspHire, our stock control system
• Identify faults with equipment and know the correct procedures to solve the faults
• Communicate effectively across all departments of the company

About you

 

You will:

 

Essential

 

• Be a team player
• Have great communication skills
• Be self-motivated
• Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Be physically able to move stock
• Be keen to learn
• Be cheerful and positive
• Be a problem solver
• Be a reliable timekeeper

Desirable

 

• Be experienced in working with technical equipment
• Possess good computer skills
• Have a forklift license
• Full UK driving licence (due to location public transport can prove to be difficult).

Where you'll be

 

Thejob is based at our headquarters in Old Dalby, Leicestershire.

 

Hours

You will work your core 40 hours between Monday to Friday: 8am to 6pm

Overtime may be required - Saturday and/or Sunday 10am to 3pm

 

About us

 

Weare creative technical event production experts. It's our job to make events look and sound amazing. And after 30 years in the business, we really know our stuff.

 

Named by the London Stock Exchange in 2015 as one of the '1000 Companies to Inspire Britain', we believe every event should be an incredible experience. Using the very latest event technology, we create spectacular bespoke solutions, in the UK and beyond. We install equipment in venues and when only the kit is needed and not the whole caboodle, we hire it out. We sell equipment from leading manufacturers too.

 

Based in Leicestershire, London and Cambridge, with our cutting-edge gear, ingenious165-strong team and unwavering focus on quality, we're proud to deliver a truly amazing service, every time. And that's why many of our clients choose to work with us again and again.

 

Interested?

 

Email your CV with a covering letter outlining your experience and why you're the right person for the job to: brightsparks@hawthorn.biz

 

 

 

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

· Deadline for applications: 7 September2017

· Contact: Adrian Searle

· Telephone: 01664 821132

· Email: adrian.searle@hawthorn.biz