Intelligent lighting engineer jobs in Finland
Intelligent lighting engineers set up, prepare, check and maintain digital and automated lighting equipment in order to provide optimal lighting quality for a live performance. They cooperate with road crew to unload, set up and operate lighting equipment and instruments.
Intelligent lighting engineer - Which skills are essential?
Apply ergonomy principles in the organisation of the workplace while manually handling equipment and materials.
Interpret an artist's explanation or demonstration of their artistic concepts, inceptions and processes and strive to share their vision.
Create technical drawings and documentation within the lighting department.
Prepare and manage the provision of electrical power for different areas.
Take the necessary precautions while providing temporary power distribution independently. Measure and power up an installation.
Distribute control signals between light boards, dimmers and other lighting equipment. Control systems can be either DMX or network based.
Make use of protection equipment according to training, instruction and manuals. Inspect the equipment and use it consistently.
Anticipate possible technical problems with lighting equipment.
Safely pack sensitive electronic equipment for storage and transport.
Work with artists, striving to understand the creative vision and adapting to it. Make full use of your talents and skills to reach the best possible result.
Remove and store various types of electronic equipment safely after use.
Correct settings or positions for your working instruments and adjust them before starting operations.
Install, connect and try out light board in a live performance environment.
Take responsibility for lifelong learning and continuous professional development. Engage in learning to support and update professional competence. Identify priority areas for professional development based on reflection about own practice and through contact with peers and stakeholders.
Apply the safety rules according to training and instruction and based on a solid understanding of the prevention measures and risks to your own personal health and safety.
Light a show based on concrete production needs.
Monitor and follow new trends and developments in specific sectors.
Make sure to set up equipment according to deadlines and time schedules.
Take necessary precautions and follow a set of measures that assess, prevent and tackle risks when working at a high distance from the ground. Prevent endangering people working under these structures and avoid falls from ladders, mobile scaffolding, fixed working bridges, single person lifts etc. since they may cause fatalities or major injuries.
Intelligent lighting engineer - Which skills are useful but not essential?
File and document a production in all its phases right after the performance period so that it can be reproduced and all relevant information remains accessible.
Manage and monitor consumables stock to ensure that the production demands and deadlines can be met at all times.
Manage and monitor technical resources stock to ensure that production demands and deadlines can be met at all times.
Set up and try out lighting states.
Observe the show, anticipate and react to possible technical problems, ensuring optimal artistic quality.
Intervene in the case of a fire in order to extinguish the fire or limit the effects pending the arrival of emergency services according to training and procedures.
Test electrical equipment for malfunctions. Take safety measures, company guidelines, and legislation concerning electrical equipment into account. Clean, repair and replace parts and connections as required.
Adjust plans to other locations with regards to the artistic concept.
Recommend technical solutions, including systems, to the client within the framework of a project.
Rig, connect, try out and de-rig automated lights, set up, try out and replace optical accessories.
Cooperate with the artistic team in order to facilitate the transition from the creative vision and its artistic concepts to a technical design.
Set up, check and repair automated lighting equipment and maintain its software.
Technically manipulate light boards for automated lights. Set up and try out lighting states with automated lights.
Rig, connect, try out and de-rig lighting equipment.
File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.
Check, maintain and repair electrical, mechanical and optical lighting elements.
Market one's own strengths in terms of skills and knowledge.
Make sure an installed technical system is adequately transferred and signed off for.
Reach out to and meet up with people in a professional context. Find common ground and use your contacts for mutual benefit. Keep track of the people in your personal professional network and stay up to date on their activities.
Consult with different people and groups who hold a stake in the production. Be on the same page on the practical side of the production, and keep them up to date.
Check and operate dimmer equipment. Take the appropriate steps if the equipment is defective, correcting the defect yourself or forwarding it to a specialised repair service.
Documenting your own work practice for different purposes like assessment, time management, job application etc.
Establish a workable layout for the system you manage and maintain it for the duration of a production.
Check, maintain and repair electrical and electronic elements. Check and update software of automated equipment.
Provide power distribution for light, stage, sound, video and recording purposes.