Junior Kit Technician and Production Assistant

Junior Kit Technician and Production Assistant

Job title : Junior Kit Technician and Production Assistant

Location : 25 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5EY

Contract : Permanent, full time

Hours : 37.5 hours per week

Shifts : 09:00-17:30;

Break details : 1-hour lunch, unpaid

Work model : Fully onsite

Williams Lea seeks a Junior Kit Technician and Production Assistant to join our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled business-critical support services to financial, legal and professional services firms.

Sound good so far? Then this is the perfect position for you, and you are just the individual that we are looking for!

Purpose of the role

The Kit Technician and Production Assistant runs and maintains our kit – transporting the kit from location to location on the correct day to free our Production Creatives from duplicate journeys to retrieve the kit.This person should build a relationship with the porters for both main London offices. They should be abreast of the shooting schedule and have kit requests given to them by the Senior Production Creative attached to the shoot.Their job is to then build that kit and make it ready wherever it is needed – it is also their job to organise the receipt of that kit after a shoot is finished and bring it back to the central kit room.

A secondary part of their role which will occur in between kit management and maintenance is the ingestion of content from shoots and making it available to our editing team

They will also be expected to perform basic production tasks and be able to assist on all types of content capture. The role will involve the creation of corporate video messages, training videos, internal communications pieces and event filming. The role may require some editing and post production so some confidence and experience in this arena is a bonus.

The position will require flexibility around working hours. Most working days will be 9.00am-5.30pm but there will be jobs that start at 7am, and occasionally there will be events that finish at 10.00pm. There may be occasions where overseas or overnight work may be required as well. These out of hour jobs will be part of your responsibility.

You will work collaboratively with the other members of the wider team, the Creative Services Manager and other members of Creative UK, to drive quality and creativity, and to help inspire and innovate the creative service offered to the client. The Kit Technician & Production Assistant will have a creative focus and be driven to produce high-quality deliverables and solutions within the client brand guidelines. The working environment is PC based. Knowledge of computer servers and centralised file sharing with remote access workflows preferable.

Key Responsibilities

- Run and maintain the film team kit:

transport/retrieve kit from location to location or our Production Creatives

abreast of the shooting schedule

build that kit and make it ready wherever it is needed

organise the receipt of that kit after a shoot is finished and bring it back to the central kit room

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- Ingestion of content from shoots and making it available to our editing team

- Perform basic editing tasks and be able to produce first draft/stitch edits of content.

- Ability to manage multiple tasks or projects and prioritise accordingly

- Deliver on time

- Work with cross team workflows (eg. Motion GFX)

- Excellent communications skills at all levels (client, team, management and IT)

- Negotiate and manage deadlines

- Follow standards and digital guidelines for branded materials

- Keep abreast of digital media trends, technologies and developments to share new ideas to the team and client

Key Skills

Excellent knowledge of kit preparation and media management

Knowledge of repair and maintenance of common shooting kit

Organisation and scheduling / cataloguing and maintenance of kit room

Good knowledge of video and audio file types and how they interact

Understand and anticipate team and clients’ needs and expectations

Innovative with the ability to implement problem solving initiatives

Keen and eager to learn and develop new skills to support the growth of the team

Excellent understanding of current digital (video and web) technologies and creative design knowledge

Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite – Primarily Premier/After Effects/Audition/Media Encoder

An active interest in new industry trends, emerging technologies and innovation

A good understanding of data and information architecture

Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail

Excellent customer relationship management skills

Calm and mature personality with the ability to work both on own initiative and in a team environment, often under pressure and to strict deadlines

Professional, confident and enthusiastic team player

Collaborative and proactive approach

Flexibility regarding working hours

Essential Skills

1+ years’ experience in editing and production

2+ years’ of hands-on kit skills and practical knowledge in packing / stowing / transportation

Desirable Skills

Experience in Adobe Creative Master Suite, specifically Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom and After Effects

Full understanding of video for web formats and compression standards

Experience of flash photography and different lighting set-ups

Camera operator or photographer experience

Sound editing

Motion graphics to a basic level

The Package

Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance/Life Assurance, Company Pension, Corporate Eye Care, Personal Accident and Company Sick Pay. Additional benefits such as Dental Insurance, Gym Membership, Charity Donations, Employee Offers, Retail Vouchers and Season Ticket Loan are offered at a discount on a salary sacrifice basis. You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer; and dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects.

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency.

Please note: Due to the high volume of responses received for this role we will not be able to contact all applicants directly. If you have not heard from us in four weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.