Job roles and Description

Job Roles

The job role of a lighting technician is to bring the Director and Lighting Designers vison to life on the technical side of the production. A team of lighting technicians will work together to the test all fixture provided for them and following a rig plan created by the director and lighting designer, as well as creating a schematic to present the location of each cable in the rig as to keep everything need, tidy and looking profesional.

As a lighting technician, your job is to assemblr and rig all the lighting fixtures needed for the production. This includes testing the fixtures to ensure they are not damaged in any way and working to their full potential. If they are not you must label the fixture as damaged and report it to the lighting designer (or whoever is managing the fixtures) so that the fixture can be replaced. You will also need to rig any scaffolding and cranes needed to hold fixtures. Setting up fixtures and plotting them into a ion desk (Eos desk, etc) so that the operator can control said fixtures

Any fixtures that turn up to be damaged, should be packed away into a flight case and labeled clearly with red tape and writing stating the problem so that it can be returned to the manufacture and a replacement can be given. The fixtures that are good to go, need to have been re-packed into their flight cases and labeled with a sticker stating the contents within, the show they are for, what company they are being used by and where the cases are to be transported to. For example, with the Alice in Wonderland production, we designed this sticker base for our designated fixture cases

As a lighting technician, you must work with a large range of other people to bring the production up to meet the required standards. Lighting technician will interrelate with:

The director and Lighting Designers - To bring their artistic vision for the production to life
Stage Designers, Constructors and Managers - If you a have no jobs that require immediate attention, Sometimes you will need to help out with other areas of construction to ensure all areas of the production meet the deadline the designers have set.