Apprentice Events Technician
The ACC Liverpool Group operates the city's waterfront event campus – the interconnected M&S Bank Arena, ACC Liverpool and Exhibition Centre Liverpool - as well as ticketing agency Ticket Quarter and the Pullman Liverpool Hotel.
Playing a leading role in shining a spotlight on Liverpool, we have successfully staged a wide array of national and international events, including the Eurovision Song Contest last year and in 2024, we will be hosting Labour Party Conference, in addition to a packed programme of entertainment and business events.
We are looking to recruit an Apprentice Event Technician to join our expanding Production Team. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in all things technical, with a desire to learn about sound, lighting, projection and other technical disciplines. Your apprenticeship will be delivered by Access Creative.
The role involves working with our in-house team on internal and external events and will lead onto direct interactions with a wide variety of clients, production companies and Senior Management; as such a proactive attitude, good communication skills and attention to detail are essential for the success of this role.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a passion for the industry and to learn about technical and production skills within a venue. Some previous experience of technical equipment and production, whether from a school, college, work or voluntary sector would be considered advantageous but not essential as on the job training and experience will be offered as part of the role.
In addition to the above, the candidate will need to be enthusiastic, like minded and complement our experienced and talented team. If you have drive, passion, ambition and wish to play a part in The ACC Liverpool Group's continuing success story this could be just the job for you.
Please note, we may close this vacancy before the stated closing date if we receive sufficient applications for the position. Therefore, if you are interested in this position, please submit your application form as soon as possible.
Closing Date: 19 th August 2024
Interview Date: TBC
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
The ACC Liverpool Group know the value of having a diverse and representative team across our organisation. We promote equal opportunities and are committed to having an inclusive work force where everybody feels respected, are treated fairly and diversity is celebrated. As such we strongly encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from all members of the community regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion, belief or sexual orientation.
For further information, assistance, or to obtain information or documents in other accessible formats, please contact the People Team.
Company Benefits
We are an award-winning, world-class venue and our people are at the heart of everything that we do. Recognition and reward are of huge importance to us at the ACC Liverpool Group, and just some of the benefits staff can enjoy include:
- An enhanced holiday scheme, which increases with length of service.
- An excellent local government pension scheme, whereby employer contribution is currently set at 14%.
- Access to a premium health care policy, which includes an employee assistant line, contributions towards a wide range of medical costs, such as dental and optical and staff discounts.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
- An excellent sickness pay scheme.
- Free onsite parking right in the heart of the city centre.
- Agile working and flexi time policies, where appropriate and in line with business needs.
- A dedicated wellbeing strategy to support staff when at work.