AV Event Technician

Role: AV Event Technician

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: New York City (on-site)

Salary: $68,000 - $73,000 (depending on experience), plus benefits including: health, vision/dental insurance; disability, vacation, sickness, 401K, commuter benefits & employee assistance program

Hours: 40 hours per week working between 10:30 am – 7.00 pm

Kinly is a unified global leader in collaboration, systems integration, and managed services. We focus on transforming work spaces, simplifying complexity, and empowering people.

With comprehensive capabilities, decades of experience, and expanded delivery teams, we empower global businesses to thrive in the hybrid world, and we are committed to driving a new era of inspiration and opportunity for our people, clients, and partners; one seamless experience at a time.

We now have a new opportunity for a proven AV Event Technician to join our highly collaborative team, working onsite at a global financial organisation to provide AV and VC technical support across all meeting rooms and event spaces on the client’s site.

The position involves a high degree of exposure, working sometimes with executive management and managing directors of the client to provide a first-class service.

• Run AV events, including pre-event testing of audio, wireless microphone battery levels etc.
• Be the primary contact for event coordination
• Liaise with clients for large events to understand their requirements and attend pre-production meetings
• Be the primary support to operate global production events and own the event experiences for the meeting host and attendees
• Event manage high profile events and become a trusted advisor
• Escalate any operational issues to the appropriate level of support and making suggestions for improvements
• Provide video/audio conference set-up and support
• Assist with support for video/audio conferencing problems; investigating faults and recommending further actions to rectify
• Carry out regular preventative room checks, ensuring all equipment functions correctly in accordance with the room check procedure
• Proactive maintenance/reporting to ensure all AV equipment is always of the highest standard and functioning correctly

• Working knowledge of audio-visual systems in conference and event spaces
• Experience supporting microphones, speakers, DSP audio systems and mixers
• Familiarity with video conferencing platforms (Teams, Zoom, Webcasting)
• Basic understanding of video routing, displays, projectors and switching
• Ability to operate and support presentation systems and event technology
• Experience with digital audio systems and basic signal flow
• Ability to perform basic troubleshooting and break-fix of AV systems
• Understand cabling, connectivity and AV signal path
• Video Conference, Cisco, MTRoW/MTRoA experience
• Customer Centric-Strong client-facing support skills

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

If you do require details of the vacancy or the application process in an alternative format, please email  outlining your requirements.

Kinly is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, gender identity, pregnancy, colour, race, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religion or any other ‘protected characteristics. We welcome your application.