Orbital Sound is a world leading sound and communication company working within the Theatre and Live Events industry with an exciting opportunity for a Warehouse Prep Engineer to join the Engineering team based at their London HQ.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the building and testing of professional sound systems for large scale Musical Theatre and Events, both within the UK and internationally. The role will be required to liaise and support key industry professionals including but not limited to in-house and external production staff and project managers.

The successful candidate will ideally be self-motivated and organised with the ability to work within a larger team. As the role progresses they will be required to take responsibility for their own projects, time management and freelance members of staff.

An energised attitude to work is essential, as is having the ability to work to deadlines and targets.

This job is for someone who wants to be challenged and further their career within the professional technical Live Audio industry by taking on more knowledge and responsibility and to be part of a team with a proven track record of building and delivering highly technical and complex pro audio & communications systems.

Requirements:
Self-motivated
Organised
Attention to detail
Energised
Experience with Professional Audio and Communication equipment is preferred but not a necessity
An understanding or experience of a warehouse environment is preferred but not a necessity
Full clean driving licence is preferred but not a necessity

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay:
£25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Benefits:
Casual dress
Company events
Company pension
Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:
London - reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:
GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:
Professional Audio: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:
Driving Licence (preferred)

Work authorisation:
United Kingdom (required)

Work Location:
In person

Reference ID: OS-ENG-2025

To apply email us at vacancies@orbitalsound.com quoting Reference ID: OS-ENG-2025

What makes this role unique?
Turn your passion into your career.

Orbital is a growing business, which means that it is important to have a pipeline of individuals who will be capable of running our technology and contracts. The programme is one of the ways we ensure that we always have a supply of potential future managers flowing through the business.

What are we looking for?
On this programme, it's your attitude and outlook more than your degree discipline that matters.

We are looking for people with a passion for customer service; people who want to work where work is travel; people with drive and ambition; people with technical skills and a technical brain; people who want to build teams and create a vision for others to follow; people who have an innovative way of doing things; people who understand the importance of the commercial viability of their plans. We are looking for people who will help us grow our organisation further and take it from strength to strength.

Requirements.
What we are looking for: If you fit this profile and are a proactive self-starter, ambitious, driven, personable and full of energy and enthusiasm to create opportunities and question the accepted – this programme is for you. You need the following to apply;

* Some relevant business work experience
* Fully geographically mobile
* Proven extra-curricular achievements relevant to Orbital
* Creative thinking and commercial acumen
* Drive and ambition
* Good communication and rapport building skills

Please send your proposal to:-

Orbital Sound prides itself on the ability to excite and inspire people about the sound industry.

Whether your still in education, just starting out or would like a career change, volunteering at Orbital can give you the opportunity to gain practical experience and crucial understanding into a working environment.

Through our training, experience and further education our students can progress into full time employment in this exciting industry.

Please send your CV and preferred dates to:-

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