Event Engineer

Event Engineer

£40,000

Remote - within a commutable distance to Gloucester – Nationwide travel

48 hours – Weekend work

Are you a hands on, proactive Event Engineer? Love live sports and events and want back door access?

Our client delivers multiple services across live sports and Venues. Known for their team first culture and complete packaged events, they are now looking for an Event Engineer to help provide full on-site tech support.

Benefits:

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Life cover, company pension, and employee assistance programme.
• Access to Medicash – covering dental, optical, and more, plus online GP and retail discounts.
• Refer-a-friend scheme with cash rewards.
• Fortnightly team lunches, regular socials, and the chance to work on some of the UK’s most prestigious sporting events and festivals.
• Overnight accommodation for events attendance
• Free tickets to leading Events across the UK – When not working the event

 Responsibilities as Event Engineer:

• Deliver and support technical solutions across live events and venues, working to Event Pack and Budget guidelines.
• Install and configure EPOS/MPOS systems in temporary or fixed environments, including user training.
• Deploy and manage wired and Wi-Fi networks in high-density environments, ensuring PCI compliance where required.
• Provide full on-site technical support during events, diagnosing and resolving issues quickly.
• Maintain and store equipment securely between events, including workshop-based maintenance.
• Uphold safe site working practices and contribute to sustainability efforts.
• Lead small teams under pressure and adapt to changing environments.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong technical problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Ideally experience in the events industry or site-based working (exhibitions, conferences, green fields).
• Good Layer 2 networking knowledge: CAT5 cabling, fibre, PoE, IP, subnets, routing, VLANs.
• Experience with EPOS systems and payment solutions, ideally in a retail environment.
• Full UK driving licence (max 6 points).
• Outgoing and friendly personality with flexibility for staying away and working weekends.

If you are interested and have the relevant experience, please apply with an up-to-date copy of your CV and we promise to get back to you. As champions of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, Thomas Professional commits to reviewing every application we receive with complete fairness and equality.

At THOMAS Professional, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to accommodate your needs.

• THOMAS Professional is acting as an agency on behalf of the client for this position.
• Our purpose as a business is to pioneer ethical recruitment for a better working world.
• THOMAS Professional is proud to be a corporate member of the REC, the recruitment industry's leading professional body.

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