Switch is an award-winning, full-service creative agency + production house that connects creative with production to bring ideas to life as envisioned and deliver impactful results as intended. And we’ve delivered all this and more for 40+ years. While our proven capabilities include live, virtual + hybrid events, business meetings, field marketing + brand immersions, trade shows + exhibits, digital marketing, branding + advertising, we don’t limit our thinking and doing to just one channel. We work to connect the dots between all of them.
Under direct supervision, the Equipment Rental Technician I loads/unloads trucks, pulls, preps, and restores audio/visual equipment, cleans, and organizes storage area, tests and maintains equipment, and operates forklift, cargo van, and box trucks.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Uncases, assembles, connects, and tunes equipment, appropriately per event specifications.
- Load and unload trucks.
- Ensures the equipment storage area is kept clean and organized on a day-to-day basis and that all supplies are put back in their designated areas when they are ready to be returned to storage.
- Possess basic knowledge of lighting, rigging, staging, scenic, video and audio equipment.
- Flexibility and willingness to adjust work schedule to meet the demands of our clients.
- Consistently follows proper safety and security measures.
- Safely operates forklift, cargo van, 16’ and 24’ box trucks.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED
- 0-3 years’ experience in at least one facet of event production (Audio, Lighting, Video, rigging, staging, technical direction, production management)
- Valid in-state Drivers’ License
- Able to perform some strenuous physical tasks daily including the ability to lift 50 lbs.
- Must have a sense of urgency and efficiency and the ability to prioritize and multi-task.
- Must have strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, and exercise good judgement.
Preferred Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree (or BFA) - Theater, Technical Production, Audio Production, Stage Management, Lighting Production, etc.
- Class E Drivers’ License
- Forklift Certification
Physical Demands (refer to Addendum):
- Ability to work in a physical environment and lift 100 pounds.
Job Types: Part-time, Contract
Work Location: In person
