Event Support Engineer, Event Productions

at  Amazon Development Centre South Africa Proprietary Limited A78

• 3+ years experience in events production.
• 3+ years of experience with video and audio operation, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Ross video processors, Cisco VC equipment, Yamaha professional mixing consoles.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to adjust work schedule to business needs.
• Positive minded with a ‘can do’ attitude.
  This is an exciting opportunity to work for Amazon, supporting dynamic, high impact events taking place in a large production venue in the new Cape Town campus. The candidate should demonstrate strong organizational skills, be customer obsessed, and be energetically driven to support our customers and the team.
  The successful event engineer candidate will serve as production support for the on campus venue and be able to design, program and operate live events ranging from conference style meetings and special events. The successful candidate will ideally have experience as a live production engineer demonstrating systems knowledge, interpersonal skills, and the ability to keep calm, focused and confident in a production environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Setup, configure, operate, monitor, troubleshoot, and de-rig event/AV equipment.
• Ability to operate in role autonomously, lead, train and oversee vendor engineer personnel.
• Report any problems that arise with complex equipment, make repairs as able.
• System and inventory management, maintain data/records of equipment use.
• Develop, document and maintain event/AV standards and drive process improvements.
• Raise the bar for our customers by searching out opportunities to help others improve skillsets and processes.

A day in the life
An Event Support Engineer’s role is to operate production equipment during live events in Amazon’s on campus large production venue. The Event Support Engineer will work alongside Producers, peers and customers to deliver high quality event experiences. This work will encompass all stages of the event process including pre-production planning, set, delivery, and de-rig/restore of event spaces.

• Setup, configure, operate, monitor, troubleshoot, and de-rig event/AV equipment.
• Ability to operate in role autonomously, lead, train and oversee vendor engineer personnel.
• Report any problems that arise with complex equipment, make repairs as able.
• System and inventory management, maintain data/records of equipment use.
• Develop, document and maintain event/AV standards and drive process improvements.
• Raise the bar for our customers by searching out opportunities to help others improve skillsets and processes