Sound Engineer

Butlins Skyline LTD; Minehead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leisure and entertainment company is looking for a passionate Sound Engineer to join their team in Minehead. The role involves operating sound and lighting for shows, maintaining AV equipment, and supporting day-to-day events. Ideal candidates will have technical experience in theatre or live events, as well as familiarity with key tools like Qlab and Yamaha. Flexibility to work evenings and weekends is required. Join us to make the magic happen for our guests and visiting artists!

Qualifications

• Previous technical experience in Received Theatre, Live Music, Touring Theatre, or Live Events.
• Hands-on experience with AV installation and operation.
• Ability to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Operate Sound, Lighting and/or AV for production shows.
• Support installing and maintaining sound, lighting, and video.
• Build and maintain sets and staging for shows.

Skills

Technical experience in Theatre, Live Music, or Live Events

Hands-on experience with Yamaha and GrandMA

Familiarity with Qlab and lighting networks

Good team player

Willingness to learn and share knowledge

Tools

Qlab

Yamaha

GrandMA

Resolume

Novastar

Job description

Sound Engineer

Department: Ents & Leisure

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Minehead

Compensation: £13.96 / hour

Description

We’re looking for passionate people to join our Butlin’s Team.

Working alongside a fantastic team, we will support you every step of the way to ensure you gain the skills and confidence to truly get stuck in.

Looking for progression? We have bags of opportunities to develop within our Entertainments and Leisure team and across the wider Butlin’s business.

As part of our Technical team, you will be supporting the day‑to‑day events, concerts, activities and production shows that we deliver at Butlin’s Minehead. You will be a crucial part of making the magic happen for our guests on stage and our visiting artists and producers that we host behind the scenes.

We have Technician positions available and are looking for a specialisation in Sound, Lighting or Video. Ideally an ability to install and program one discipline and operate the others.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate Sound, Lighting and/or AV for production shows.
• Venue support installing and maintaining sound, lighting and video including the programming of Qlab, using control methods including MIDI/OSC/NDI/DANTE.
• Building sets, staging and the upkeep of props and sets for shows and activities.
• There will be some heavy lifting and moving of stages, staging, sets, scenery, and related equipment.
• Responsibility for our asset register and the planned/reactive maintenance of our inventory.
• Upkeep of our back of house team and artist areas.
• Previous technical experience in an area such as Received Theatre, Live Music, Touring Theatre or Live Events and Conferences is required.
• Hands on experience with installation and operation of Yamaha, GrandMA, Qlab, Resolume, Novastar and general familiarity with audio and lighting networks is preferred.
• A willingness to learn and share; to build your, and other team members, skills and knowledge, developing and implementing best practices across our teams and venues at Minehead and other Butlin’s resorts.
• Being a great team player is essential and you should also enjoy the buzz of a busy environment. No day will ever be the same, so you should be happy to try new things and chat to lots of different people.
• Our resorts are open seven days a week so you will need some flexibility to work evenings and weekends. Do let us know your availability at the application stage and we can have a chat with you about this in more detail insurers.