Senior Performance Venues Technician

The “Senior Performance Venues Technician” – Senior Technical Officer – will be responsible to the President, Dean, and Head of Conservatoire for the supervision, coordination, administration and development of the City Campus EQ performance venues within TU Dublin, the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Conservatoire. They will be required to work closely with students, management, academic, technical and other staff.

The Conservatoire – in normal, non-Covid-19 times – holds approximately 150 events per academic year ranging from concerts, operas, theatre productions, masterclasses, competitions, performance classes and rehearsals etc., most of which are open to the public. All of these performances are now held in the TU Dublin Concert Hall, Recital Hall and Black Box Theatre in the East Quad.

The Performance Venues STO role will include installing, operating and maintaining all lighting, sound and other technical equipment at the East Quad Concert Hall, Recital Hall and Black Box Theatre, working closely with the Conservatoire Management, Events Manager, Ensemble and Concerts Manager to offer excellent service to all customers and departments, will provide effective and efficient supervision of all performance venue technical operations, will ensure the safety and comfort of customers in all performance spaces, maintain high standards in all areas of work, work in liaison with external users of the spaces to ensure the safety, security and maintenance of the venues.

See attached job description for more details of role and person specifications.