Audio Visual Engineer

Title: Audio Visual Engineer
Location: Cape Town

Reporting to: GM

Role overview
Time Out Market Cape Town is looking for an experienced and creative Audiovisual Engineer to join the team. In order to apply for this role, you must have experience of working with audio visual and sound equipment in performance and/or hospitality type venues.
This position is an essential part of achieving total guest satisfaction in the market.
Responsibilities

• Oversees the technical and operational quality of all of the sound needs of Time Out Market, contributing to create positive and memorable experiences for guests.

• Ensures the appropriate setup of Sound all daily live entertainment, local entertainment events, lectures, meeting spaces and Background Music.

• Participates in the purchasing request of material related to sound in the market.


• Performs regular technical checks, preventative maintenance and ensures that dedicated spaces for sound are clean and organized while maintaining a safe working environment.

• Executes physical inventories and inventory spot checks as per inventory schedule.


• Strives to minimize inventory levels while ensuring sufficient stock levels to operate the department smoothly and Consistently work towards minimizing waste, breakage and wear and tear.

• Creates and monitors maintenance requests for non-functional equipment and any other topics affecting the sound peration and ensures problems are resolved in an acceptable timeframe and escalates delays to the supervisor.


• Act as the guest liaison on all sound, and AV technical requests and coordination

• Specialized certification and/or post-secondary degree in Sound or an Audio Visual related field is preferred

• Ability to operate, program and maintain professional Sound equipment for live entertainment venues including digital and analog audio consoles. The knowledge to identify the causes of technical problems and suggest effective and creative ways to solve them

• Proficient in audio techniques and the ability to understand industry rules and regulations, terminology and best practices

Skills:

• Advanced Networking and computer skills with strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows and OSX operating systems as well as Sound and Light specific applications


• Experience of working as a sound technician in a professional environment.


• Good knowledge of sound technology including rigging, patching, focussing and programming of digital sound desks.


• Good working knowledge of health and safety in a similar environment.


• Excellent problem solving skills.


• Comfortable working at height.

• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point), OSX (Keynote, Pages) and Adobe (Acrobat Reader, Photoshop)

What we look for in a candidate
Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we live in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, youll want to

• Be commercially astute


• Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced transformative company in pursuit of excellence


• Think globally


• Have excellent communication and relationship building skills


• Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive


• Be a team player

What we look for in a candidate

Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we live in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, youll want to
Be commercially astute
Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced transformative company in pursuit of excellence
Think globally
Have excellent communication and relationship building skills
Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive
Be a team player
About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

About Time Out Group plc

Time Out Group is a global media and hospitality business that inspires and enables people to explore and enjoy the best of the city.
It all began in London in 1968 when Time Out helped people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the capital. Since then, this iconic brand has consistently maintained its status as the go-to source of inspiration for both locals and visitors alike.
Time Out Group has been named one of the Most Innovative Companies for 2020 by Fast Company - this prestigious annual list honours the businesses making the most profound impact on both industry and culture, showcasing a variety of ways to thrive in todays fast-changing world. The Group comprises two highly synergistic business divisions: Time Out Media and Time Out Market.
Time Out Medias digital and physical media proposition comprises websites, mobile, social media, print and live events. Across these platforms, Time Out distributes its high-quality content written and curated by local expert journalists around the best food, drinks, culture, art, music, theatre, travel and entertainment in 328 cities and 58 countries. The Company is monetising this global reach and its strong traffic from a desirable audience via digital and print advertising as well as e-commerce. Since its launch 50 years ago, Time Out has become a global brand that advertisers and consumers love and trust.

Time Out Market is a food and cultural market leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city under one roof: its best chefs, drinks and cultural experiences based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The worlds first food and cultural market experience based wholly on editorial curation, Time Out Market captures decades of local knowledge, independent reviews and expert opinions. Everything that is being offered in Time Out Market must have been reviewed with four or five stars, and not one star less, by independent Time Out journalists.
The first Time Out Market opened in Lisbon in 2014 and is now Portugals most popular attraction with 4.1 million visitors in 2019. Following this success, four new Time Out Markets opened in North America in 2019 in New York, Boston, Montral and Chicago, and we recently celebrated the opening of Time Out Market Dubai in April 2021. A further pipeline of other global locations includes Porto, Barcelona, Prague, Abu Dhabi, Cape Townand London.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the worlds greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Tokyo and Sydney and beyond. Its our integrity, passion, curiosity, creativity and openness that make us successful and a unique team.