Call for applications: SAST senior sound engineer, lighting designer

Senior sound engineer

The successful candidate will perform some of the following duties:

• Taking responsibility for the management and delivery of all sound needs and requirements for productions and associated projects.
• Overseeing the organisation of sound requirements or in-house productions and rentals.
• Overseeing the sound department team including administration.
• Recruiting and managing freelance sound technicians, engineers and crew.
• Training and identifying training programmes for fellow department members on current systems ad mixing consoles.
• Planning and supervising of the maintenance of sound equipment and infrastructure.
• Keeping up to date with current sound technology and advising on new sound equipment purchases.
• Ensuring compliance with all health and safety procedures and regulations.
• Attending production meetings, programme meetings, read-throughs and rehearsals.
• Working with the sound designer of individual productions to grasp the production’s sound design and needs.
• Providing costing for individual productions’ sound requirements, working in conjunction with the production manager.
• Running sound set-ups, technical rehearsals and strikes.
• Creating production schedules in conjunction with the production manager.
• Recruiting, managing and scheduling sound engineers and technicians in consultation with the production manager.
• Working shows as sound operator, programmer or engineer.
• Working as designer or associate designer for in-house productions and events if required.

Preferred minimum education

• National diploma specialising in sound.

Experience required

• Five years of experience in sound design/engineering.
• Two years supervisory experience.
• Knowledge, skills and critical competencies.
• Excellent knowledge of current sound equipment and practices.
• Ability to read and understand ground plans and technical drawings, AutoCAD or similar.
• Computer literate.
• Ability to lead and manage a team.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Driver’s licence and own transport.
• Team player.
• Ability to handle stress.
• Experience in rigging sound equipment, using analogue and digital sound desks and using Qlab.
• Sound design and mixing live sound for theatre and music experience.

Lighting designer

The successful candidate will perform some of the following duties:

• Take responsibility for the management and timely delivery for all lighting requirements.
• Maintaining working lighting inventory and equipment within the various theatres.
• Assisting and advising outside productions with regards to their lighting requirements.
• Managing and overseeing the lighting department team including administrative responsibility relating to inventory or management of the lighting crew.
• Recruiting and managing freelance lighting technicians, operators and crew.
• Training or identifying training programmes for members of the lighting department on current lighting systems and lighting desks.
• Planning and supervising the maintenance of lighting equipment and infrastructure.
• Keeping up to date with current lighting technology and advising on new equipment.
• Compliance with all health and safety measures.
• Attending production meetings, progress meetings read-throughs and rehearsals.
• Working with creative teams of individual productions to grasp the production’s lighting design.
• Providing costing for individual’s productions lighting requirements working in conjunction with the production manager.
• Running lighting set-ups, technical rehearsals and strikes.
• Creating production schedules in conjunction with the production manager.
• Recruiting, managing and scheduling lighting operators and technicians in consultation with the production manager.
• Programming of lighting desks in all spaces.
• Providing lighting design services for in-house productions and events.

Preferred minimum education

• National diploma specialising in lighting.

Experience required

• Five years of experience in lighting design.
• Two years supervisory experience.

Knowledge, skills and critical competencies

• Be comfortable with working at heights.
• Ability to lead and manage a team.
• Excellent knowledge of current lighting equipment and practices.
• Experience in rigging and focusing lighting equipment.
• Lighting design experience.
• Thorough knowledge of MA lighting consoles and dimmers.
• Ability to read and understand ground plans and technical drawing.
• AutoCAD/Computer literate.
• Driver’s license and own transport.

Interested candidates should indicate the position they are applying for. They should hand deliver or email certified copies of qualifications and a CV with three contactable references to Matevhutevhu Sikidi at:

Human Resource Office
The South African State Theatre
320 Pretorius Street
Pretoria

Applications can be emailed at jobs@statetheatre.co.za. The closing date is 10 October.