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Live Event Technician Apprentice
COLONEL TOM TOURING LTD
Location: Salisbury (SP4 6AT)
Wage: £16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
Hours: Monday to Friday, with the expectations of working evenings and weekends where required. 40 hours a week
Start date: Tuesday 10 November 2026
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 1
Summary
Join Colonel Tom as a Live Event Technician and gain hands-on experience supporting exciting live projects. You’ll prepare, test and maintain professional LED and event equipment, manage stock and assets, support warehouse operations and help get equipment ready for live productions and events.
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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to start your career in the live events and production industry, gaining hands-on experience with professional equipment and technology. As a Live Event Technician Apprentice at Colonel Tom, you’ll work alongside experienced industry professionals to prepare, test, maintain and manage technical equipment for live projects. The role will initially have a strong warehouse and equipment focus, helping you build the technical knowledge and practical skills needed to understand how equipment is prepared, maintained and deployed. You’ll gain experience with professional LED screen technology while developing a wider understanding of live event production.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and de-prep technical equipment for live projects.
- Test LED screen tiles and associated equipment.
- Carry out basic maintenance, fault finding and repairs.
- Check, organise and correctly store equipment following projects.
- Process, track and manage company assets using inventory software.
- Load and unload equipment from vehicles.
- Pack equipment safely and appropriately for transportation.
- Maintain a clean, organised and safe warehouse environment.
- Support project preparation, ensuring equipment is ready to meet deadlines.
- Work collaboratively with warehouse, operations and project teams.
- Follow health and safety procedures and safe working practices.
- Develop your technical knowledge and take on greater responsibility as your skills and confidence grow.
Project Work
Alongside your warehouse responsibilities, you’ll have opportunities to see how equipment is used within real live event environments. Working with Project Managers and experienced technical teams, you’ll develop practical industry experience. As your skills progress, this may include supporting the installation, operation, troubleshooting and de-rigging of equipment on live projects.
What We’re Looking For
Previous live events experience isn’t essential. We’re looking for someone enthusiastic about developing a career in the industry who is keen to learn. You should:
- Have an interest in live events, production, AV, LED or technical equipment.
- Enjoy practical, hands-on work.
- Be comfortable learning new technology.
- Have good attention to detail and organisation.
- Be reliable, punctual and able to follow instructions.
- Have a positive, proactive approach.
- Enjoy working as part of a team.
- Be willing to learn from experienced industry professionals.
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What You’ll Learn
Throughout your role and apprenticeship, you’ll develop skills in live event technical production, LED technology, equipment preparation and testing, fault finding, maintenance, safe working practices, storage and logistics, inventory management and live event workflows.
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ACCESS FURTHER EDUCATION LIMITED
Training course
Creative industries production technician (level 3)
Course contents
- Interpret system specifications and drawings such as sound, lighting or video.
- Prepare system specifications and drawings.
- Use specialist software systems such as computer aided design and asset management to extract information and input basic information.
- Assemble systems to support production, live performance or events from component parts using correct tools.
- Troubleshoot and fault find issues in discrete pieces of equipment.
- Deploy, operate and maintain technical equipment and tools.
- Prepare, test, repair and maintain lighting, sound or video equipment and systems.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and adapt communication appropriately to suit the audience.
- Use digital collaboration tools to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Direct team members taking into consideration their level of experience.
- Interpret and apply method statements in response to dynamic risk assessment to help ensure safe planning and delivery of work processes.
- Use safety and access equipment in accordance with manufacturer instructions or to an alternative safe scheme of use.
- Assemble and configure structures and systems from component parts to production specification.
- Disassemble structures and systems, storing component parts and equipment safely.
- Prepare written information and reports.
- Comply with creative venue budgetary and financial management protocols.
- Undertake set and change scenes in live performance – setting and striking scenic elements under show conditions.
- Operate suspension systems.
- Undertake stage crafts such as basic scenic construction, carpentry, metalwork, stage machinery, props, scene changes, knots and terminations.
- Trouble shoot, fault find and carry out basic repairs to creative venue and production systems.
- As directed, inspect, test and maintain creative venue systems and production systems.
- Program and operate production control consoles.
- Undertake cueing and operation during the live performance or event.
- Trouble shoot, fault find and repair at sub assembly and component level.
- Calibrate equipment and systems to meet production requirements.
- Identify, specify and use components, systems and products applicable for the environment.
- Identify and undertake servicing requirements in line with manufacturer recommendations.
- Achieve effective network connectivity across live event systems.
- Identify required packing space for equipment and for truck packs.
- Prepare and operate lifting and ground rigging equipment.
- Program and operate lighting control systems.
- Assess and monitor power supply systems, installing wiring for practicals and equipment as required.
- Prepare, set and operate lighting equipment to create the desired effect.
- Manipulate and modify lighting, using diffusion materials, filters or reflectors to create the desired effect.
- Adapt lighting to meet short notice creative changes in the production design or script.
- Prepare and operate extra low voltage lighting equipment and systems.
- Identify the dangers and restrictions in the use of battery supplies including charging and mitigate for these.
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The Apprenticeship
Alongside your role at Colonel Tom, you will complete the Level 3 Creative Industries Production Technician Apprenticeship – Live Event Technician pathway. The apprenticeship will combine your practical experience at Colonel Tom with structured training and development, helping you build the technical knowledge, skills and behaviours required to establish a career within the live events industry.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade C/4 and above)
- Maths (grade C/4 and above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Colonel Tom Touring is a specialist live concert touring video and visual production company, with operations in both the UK and USA. Their UK base is at High Post Business Park near Salisbury. They provide the video technology and technical infrastructure behind large-scale live music productions, including LED screens and wider visual production for concert tours.
https://www.coloneltomtouring.com/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Your Future Career
This role is an opportunity to build the foundations for a long-term career within live events and technical production. By the end of your apprenticeship, you will have gained practical experience working with professional technical equipment and an understanding of how equipment moves from warehouse preparation through to deployment on live projects.
For someone who is enthusiastic, technically minded and keen to progress, this could provide a pathway into roles across live event production, LED and video, AV, technical operations and wider production technology.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACCESS FURTHER EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000057833.
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