Venue Technician
Lancaster City CouncilLancaster, North West
Overview
This is a local council role (full time) with Lancaster City Council based in Lancaster. The advertised salary is £26,403 to £31,022 per year. Applications close on 16 September 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Make a Difference in Lancaster
Join us as a Venue Technician and play a vital role in delivering high-quality technical support for events at Ashton Hall and other council venues. Your expertise will ensure every concert, performance, and function runs smoothly, safely, and professionally, enriching Lancaster’s vibrant community life.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll prepare and operate sound, lighting, and AV systems for a variety of live events, assist with staging and equipment setup, and liaise closely with hirers and performers to meet their technical needs. Your role includes maintaining equipment, troubleshooting issues, and supporting the Venue Manager to provide a welcoming and professional service.
You’ll Fit Right In If…
You have solid experience with digital sound and lighting, understand stage management and safety, and thrive in fast-paced, time-sensitive environments. You take pride in working collaboratively, show ambition in your technical skills, and take ownership of delivering safe, high-quality event support. Your commitment to working varied hours, including evenings and weekends, aligns with our community-focused ethos of working together with pride.
Ready to Join Us?
If you’re passionate about supporting live events and want to contribute to Lancaster’s cultural scene, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more about what it’s like working with us, our benefits, values and culture, by visiting lancaster.gov.uk/sites/recruitment.
Why Work With Us
Our Benefits
- Generous annual leave
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Car purchase scheme
- Lifestyle savings
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Volunteering days
- Wellbeing support
Flexible working friendly
We welcome discussions about flexible working and may be able to offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and agreed working hours to support work–life balance.
Inclusive employer
We welcome applications from all parts of the community and are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
We guarantee interviews for applicants with a disability and armed forces veterans who meet the essential criteria.
How this role compares
We hold 316 council vacancies in North West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £36,822. This role pays less than about 86% of them.
There are 4,945 council roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 811 of them in North West.
You have 17 days left to apply. Council adverts we hold typically run for around 26 days, so this is about the usual amount of time.
Lancaster City Council has 10 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
These figures are calculated from the vacancies GovJobs currently holds, not from official pay statistics. They are a guide to the market, not a valuation of this post.
How to apply
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